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Portrait of Dr. Tahir Ekin

Dr. Tahir Ekin

  • Professor - Endowed Chair at Dept of Information Systems & Analytics, McCoy College of Business
  • Program Staff at Center for Analytics & Data Science

Service Activities

Ongoing

  • Chair, INFORMS Military and Security Society Awards Committee. December 2024 - Present.
  • Program Chair, ISBA Industrial Statistics Section. December 2024 - Present.
  • Member, INFORMS Military and Security Society Board. December 2024 - Present.
  • Member, Teaching and Learning in AI Conference. October 2024 - Present.
  • Chair, Denise Smart Endowed Chair in Marketing Search Committee. October 2024 - Present.
  • Member, Academic Data Science Alliance Working Group in Member Programs Guidance. September 2024 - Present.
  • Member, VPIT AI Faculty Advisory Group. July 2024 - Present.
  • Member, Texas State University Principal Investigators (PI) Council. September 2023 - Present.
  • Chair, Center for Analytics and Data Science. September 2023 - Present.
  • Other, DBA Faculty. August 2023 - Present.
  • Organizer, Texas State University/United States Air Force Summer Cadet Research Program. March 2023 - Present.
  • University Mentor, Generacion STEM: Get Future Ready. March 2023 - Present.
  • Member, CIEDAR Faculty Working Group. October 2021 - Present.
  • Affiliate Faculty, Translational Health Research Center. February 2021 - Present.
  • Associate Doctoral Faculty, Texas State University Material Science, Engineering Commercialization (MSEC) Doctoral Program. January 2018 - Present.
  • Undergraduate Research Mentor, Texas State University Honors College. September 2017 - Present.
  • Affiliate Faculty Expert, Texas State University Center for Communication, Collaboration and Creativity. September 2017 - Present.

2024

  • Reviewer / Referee, European Journal of Operational Research. November 2019 - 2024.
  • Reviewer / Referee, University of Ghana External Tenure Evaluation. September 2024 - December 2024.
  • Organizer, Undergraduate Research Event. September 2024.
  • Chair, INFORMS Military and Application Society Koopman Award Committee. August 2023 - July 2024.
  • Poster Session Judge, TXST STEM Conference. April 2024.
  • Member, Texas State University ISAN Department Faculty Search Committee. October 2023 - April 2024.
  • Reviewer / Referee, National Science Foundation. January 2024 - March 2024.
  • Datathon Poster competition judge, University Libraries First Datathon. January 2024 - February 2024.
  • Editorial Review Board Member, Arab Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences. January 2019 - January 2024.

2023

  • Reviewer / Referee, National Science Foundation. November 2023 - December 2023.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Annals of Applied Statistics. January 2023 - December 2023.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Decision Analysis. January 2023 - December 2023.
  • Member, Third Play with Data Event Poster Competition. November 2023.
  • Organizer, McCoy Conversations: Thought Leadership in Artificial Intelligence. October 2023 - November 2023.
  • Speaker, US Senate Special Committee on Aging Hearing: Modern Scams: How Scammers Are Using Artificial Intelligence \& How We Can Fight Back. October 2023 - November 2023.
  • Attendee / Participant, TXST Faculty Innovation Accelerator Program. September 2023 - November 2023.
  • Member, Third Play with Data Event Conference Committee Member. March 2023 - November 2023.
  • Member, Presidential Commission on Student Success. September 2022 - October 2023.
  • Member, IT Governance Executive Committee. January 2023 - August 2023.
  • Co-Chair, Proceedings of AMCIS 2023 Conference Security Analytics mini-track. January 2023 - August 2023.
  • Member, Campus Information Resources Advisory Council. September 2022 - August 2023.
  • Organizer, Texas State University Proposals for Analytics Academic Programs at Texas State University (faculty-led initiative). March 2022 - August 2023.
  • Member, Compliance Executive Committee. November 2021 - August 2023.
  • Member, President's Cabinet. September 2021 - August 2023.
  • Co-Chair, Texas State University Data Science Center Initiative (faculty-led initiative). September 2021 - August 2023.
  • Presidential Fellow, Office of the President. September 2021 - August 2023.
  • Co-Chair, Working Group for Implementation of Minor in Data Science/Analytics. July 2022 - May 2023.
  • Undergraduate Advisor, Texas State University Information Technology Students of America Business Analytics Prep Session. January 2023 - April 2023.
  • Member, Ingram School of Engineering Industrial Engineering Faculty Search Committee. July 2022 - March 2023.
  • Member, ISBIS 2023 Election Nominating Committee. September 2022 - January 2023.

2022

  • Reviewer / Referee, Computational Statistics. 2021 - 2022.
  • Member, University Planning Background Brief for Research, Creativity, and Discovery. February 2022 - December 2022.
  • Member, INFORMS Military and Application Society Koopman Award Selection Committee. June 2022 - August 2022.
  • Member, Outstanding Dissertation Award Committee in the Social Sciences, Education, and Business. June 2022.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Health Care Management Science. January 2022 - June 2022.
  • Member, TXSTNEXT Advancement “Student Enrichment Programs”. December 2021 - May 2022.
  • Panelist, McCoy Conversations: Business of Health Care". April 2022.
  • Co-Chair, Feasibility of Minor in Data Science Working Group. August 2021 - April 2022.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Dutch Reseearch Council Grant. November 2021 - January 2022.

2021

  • Reviewer / Referee, Sigma Journal of Engineering and Natural Sciences. 2021.
  • Reviewer / Referee, INFORMS Journal of Data Science. 2021.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Risk and Insurance. 2020 - 2021.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Data and Information Quality. 2020 - 2021.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal. 2020 - 2021.
  • Member, CIS & QM Department Chair Search Committee. August 2020 - 2021.
  • Secretary, International Society of Bayesian Analysis Industrial Statistics Section (ISBA-IS). January 2019 - 2021.
  • Editorial Review Board Member, International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (ISBIS) Newsletter. May 2018 - December 2021.
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology. October 2016 - December 2021.
  • Member, Associate Vice President of Research (CRO) Search Committee. February 2021 - November 2021.
  • Member, Texas State University Graduate College Outstanding Thesis Award Nominations in the Social Sciences. September 2021 - October 2021.
  • Vice President, International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics. July 2017 - July 2021.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Applied Statistics. February 2016 - July 2021.
  • Editor, Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry Journal Special Issue on Analytics and Data Science. May 2019 - March 2021.

2020

  • Reviewer / Referee, International Journal of Advanced Operations Management. 2020.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Mathematics. 2020.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 2020.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Pakistan Journal of Statistics. 2020.
  • Reviewer / Referee, North American Actuarial Journal. 2019 - 2020.
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Military Medicine Journal. May 2015 - September 2020.
  • Chair, Information, Logistics and Supply Chain (ILS) 2020 International Conference. June 2018 - April 2020.

2019

  • Reviewer / Referee, Reliability Engineering and System Safety. 2018 - 2019.
  • Editor, Proceedings of y-BIS 2019 Conference: Recent Advances in Data Science and Business Analytics, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Publications: 884, ISBN: 978-605-5005-95-5. January 2019 - November 2019.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Statistical Analysis and Data Mining: ASA Data Science Journal. January 2019 - November 2019.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry. February 2018 - November 2019.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Reliability Engineering and System Safety. January 2018 - October 2019.
  • Session Chair, ISBIS y-BIS 2019 Workshop on Data Science and Analytics. September 2019.
  • Chair, ISBIS y-BIS 2019 Workshop on Data Science and Analytics Scientific Committee. April 2018 - September 2019.
  • Session Chair, SAMSI GDRR Program Opening Workshop. August 2019.
  • Session Chair, ISI World Statistics Congress. March 2019 - August 2019.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, 2019 ISI World Statistics Congress Session. May 2018 - August 2019.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Supply Chain Forum: an International Journal. February 2017 - August 2019.
  • Chair, International Society of Business and Industrial Statisticians (ISBIS) Young Business and Industrial Statisticians Committee. July 2017 - July 2019.
  • Reviewer / Referee, North American Actuarial Journal. February 2019 - May 2019.
  • (Substitute) Committee Member, Assurance of Learning Committee. January 2019 - May 2019.
  • Member, Research Committee. August 2017 - May 2019.
  • Course Assessment Coordinator, QMST 3339 Data Mining and Visualization. January 2017 - May 2019.
  • Exhibitor/Speaker, US Information Technology Collegiate Conference: Value of Graduate Education: Programs at Texas State University. April 2019.
  • Affiliate Faculty, Ingram School of Engineering Center for High Performance Systems. September 2013 - January 2019.

2018

  • Reviewer / Referee, European Journal of Industrial Engineering. 2018.
  • Member, Texas State University McCoy College of Business Endowed Professorship Committee. August 2018 - December 2018.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Naval Research Logistics. February 2018 - December 2018.
  • Panelist, Texas State University New Faculty Orientation. August 2018.
  • Member, MBA Core Course Coordinator Committee. August 2015 - August 2018.
  • Course Coordinator, QMST 5334 (Advanced Statistical Methods). December 2013 - August 2018.
  • Session Chair, 2018 ISBIS Annual Meeting. October 2017 - July 2018.
  • Member, ISI World Congress ISBIS Presidential Gosset Lecture Award Committee. April 2018 - May 2018.
  • Reviewer / Referee, AMMCS-2017 Conference Proceedings. January 2018 - May 2018.
  • Member, ISBIS 2018 Annual Conference Travel Awards Committee. March 2018 - April 2018.
  • Member, Quantitative Methods Faculty Search Committee. August 2017 - April 2018.
  • Member, Task Group for Curriculum Building for M.S. in Data Analytics and Information Systems, New Degree Program, Texas State University. March 2017 - January 2018.

2017

  • Hooded "Xialing Deng", McCoy Graduate Hooding Ceremony Fall 2017. December 2017.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Journal of Operational Research Society. August 2017 - November 2017.
  • Session Chair, INFORMS 2017 Annual Meeting Simulation Track. March 2017 - November 2017.
  • Panelist, McCoy Research Jump-Start. November 10, 2017.
  • Program Committee Member, Y-Bis 2017 International Workshop on Modern methods in insurance and industrial statistics. June 2016 - September 2017.
  • Committee Member, International Society of Business and Industrial Statisticians (ISBIS) Young Business and Industrial Statisticians Committee. June 2016 - July 2017.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Winter Simulation Conference. March 2017 - June 2017.
  • Chairperson, International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics 2017 Conference Poster Competition. August 2016 - June 2017.
  • Program Committee Member, International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics 2017 Conference. August 2016 - June 2017.
  • Hooded "Brian Voss", McCoy Graduate Hooding Ceremony Spring 2017. May 2017.
  • Session Chair, International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics 2017 Conference. October 2016 - May 2017.
  • Member, Ingram School of Engineering Industrial Engineering Faculty Search Committee. July 2016 - May 2017.
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Annals of Operations Research. August 2016 - March 2017.
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, International Transactions in Operational Research. June 2016 - January 2017.

2016

  • Prepared QMST 3339 Assessment Report. December 2016.
  • Member, Research Committee Journal List Task Force. October 2016 - December 2016.
  • Committee Member, Research Enhancement Program (REP) Committee. June 2016 - December 2016.
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation. December 2014 - December 2016.
  • Session Chair, 2016 AITP High School Symposium. October 2016.
  • Session Chair, INFORMS Annual Meeting Simulation Track. February 2016 - October 2016.
  • Session Chair, International Society of Bayesian Analysis World Meeting. January 2016 - July 2016.
  • Judge, Poster Competition, International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics 2016 Meeting. June 2016.
  • Reviewer, Conference Paper, Information Systems, Logistics and Supply Chain Conference 2016. March 2016 - May 2016.
  • Committee Member, MSAIT Admissions sub-committee. September 2015 - May 2016.
  • Member, Task Group for Curriculum Building of M.S. in Supply Chain and Analytics. September 15, 2015 - May 2016.
  • Member, Task Group for Curriculum Building of Undergraduate CIS Analytics Concentration. September 1, 2015 - May 2016.
  • Committee Member, Graduate Policies Committee. August 2014 - May 2016.
  • Attendee, Meeting, Bobcat Day. April 2016.
  • Member, Quantitative Methods Faculty Search Committee. August 2015 - April 2016.
  • Judge, Poster Competition, Conference of Texas Statisticians 2016. March 2016 - April 9, 2016.
  • Prepared personal research agenda summary to be used in the Continuous Improvement Review Report, AASCB Accreditation Task Force. February 2016 - March 2016.
  • Prepared host scholar paperwork for Visiting Scholar Invitation. November 2015 - February 2016.

2015

  • Reviewer, Journal Article, PLOS One. December 2015.
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering. March 2015 - December 2015.
  • Hooded "Benjamin Smith", McCoy Graduate Hooding Ceremony Fall 2015. December 12, 2015.
  • Resume Reviewer, INFORMS Annual Meeting Job Placement Services. November 2015.
  • Session Chair, INFORMS Annual Meeting Optimization Track. May 2015 - November 2015.
  • Session Chair, INFORMS Annual Meeting Simulation Track. February 2015 - November 2015.
  • Session Chair, 2015 AITP High School Symposium. October 2015.
  • Hooded "Jerry Gutierrez", McCoy Graduate Hooding Ceremony Spring 2015. May 15, 2015.

2014

  • Judge, Interactive Poster Competition, INFORMS Annual Meeting. September 2014 - November 2014.
  • Hooded "James White", McCoy Graduate Hooding Ceremony Spring 2014. May 7, 2014.
  • Attendee, Meeting, Bobcat Day. April 2014.

2013

  • Session Chair, INFORMS Annual Meeting Optimization Track. August 2013 - October 2013.
  • Participant, Texas State University eTextbook Pilot Study. December 2012 - May 2013.
  • Presented in the Research Committee Brown Bag Seminar "Grants: Writing, Budgeting, and Reporting", Research Committee. March 2013.

2012

  • Session Chair, Young Business and Industrial Statisticians Conference. 2012 - July 2012.