Faculty Profile for Dr. Dincer Konur

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Dr. Dincer Konur
Associate Professor — Dept of Information Systems & Analytics
MCOY 454
phone: (512) 245-3231
Scholarly/Creative Work
Awards
Grants
Service

Biography Section

Biography and Education

 Dr. Konur is a faculty member in the Department of Computer Information Systems and Quantitative Methods of McCoy College of Business Administration since September 2018. He holds PhD and MS degrees in Industrial and Systems Engineering from University of Florida (Gainesvile, FL) and BS degree in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey).

Right before joining Texas State University, he was awarded tenure and promoted to Associate Professor in the Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Department of the Missouri University Science and Technology, where he worked during August 2012-August 2018. Before Missouri University of Science and Technology, he worked as a post-doc researcher at the Intermodal Freight Transportation Institute at the University of Memphis for a year (July 2011-July 2012).

Teaching Interests

 Dr. Konur's teaching interests are in management science, decision-making, optimization, supply chain management, logistics, and operations management.

Research Interests

 Dr. Konur's expertise is in operations research and game theory and their applications. Specifically, Dr. Konur's interests include supply chain management, logistics, transportation, and other operations research/game theory applications such as defense systems.

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Konur, D., & Yildirim, G. (2021). Cycle cost considerations in a continuous review inventory control model. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 72(4), 800–821. https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2019.1700189
  • Konur, D. (2021). Keep your enemy close? Competitive online brands’ expansion with individual and shared showrooms. Omega, 99, 102206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omega.2020.102206
  • Kamandanipour, K., Nasiri, M. M., Konur, D., & Yakhchali, S. H. (2020). Stochastic data-driven optimization for multi-class dynamic pricing and capacity allocation in the passenger railroad transportation. Expert Systems with Applications, 158, 113568. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2020.113568
  • Konur, D. (2020). Collaborative emission targets joining and quantity flow decisions in a Stackelberg setting. Journal of Cleaner Production, 249. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.119425
  • Konur, D., & Geunes, J. (2018). Supplier wholesale pricing for a retail chain: Analysis of identical market price functions. Omega, 76, 38–46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omega.2017.04.001

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: College Achievement Award for Excellence in Service, McCoy College of Business Administration. August 2024
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Presidential Distinction Award in Teaching, McCoy College of Business Administration. August 2023
  • Award / Honor Recipient: ChangeMaker Award, McCoy College of Business Administration. August 2022
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Presidential Distinction Award in Scholarly/Creative Activities, McCoy College of Business Administration. August 2022
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award, McCoy College of Business Administration. May 2021

Selected Grants

  • Fulton, Lawrence V (Principal), Villagran, Melinda Morris (Co-Principal), , Bing Zhou (Co-Principal), Mendez, Francis A (Co-Principal), Ekin, Tahir (Co-Principal), Qasem, Apan Muhammad (Co-Principal), Konur, Dincer (Supporting), Alanis, Emmanuel (Supporting), Zihagh, Fereshteh (Supporting), Dong, Zhijie (Co-Principal), Shen, Xiaoxi (Supporting), De Nadai, Alessandro Stevens (Supporting), Zhu, Ye (Co-Principal), Hewitt, Barbara A (Co-Principal), Valles Molina, Damian (Supporting), White, Alexander (Supporting), Dolezel, Diane M (Supporting), Ioudina, Vera (Supporting), Islam, Tanzima Z (Supporting), Lee, Chul Ho (Supporting), Metsis, Vangelis (Supporting), Moradi, Masoud (Supporting), Gao, Ju (Supporting), Li-Jen, Lester (Supporting), Jones, Dustin (Supporting), Pham, Vung (Supporting), Holt, Melinda (Supporting), Kyung An, Min (Supporting), Islam, ABM (Supporting), Cho, Hyuk (Supporting), Liu, Quigzhoung (Supporting), Liang, Fan (Supporting), Topinka, Joseph Baar (Supporting). The Accelerating Credentials of Purpose and Value for the Texas Innovation Corridor (TIC) Consortium Grant, THECB, State, $1450000. (Submitted: November 2021, Funded: February 2022 - October 2022). Grant.
  • Konur, Dincer, Ekin, Tahir, Dong, Wenquan. University Lecturer Series, Texas State University Faculty Senate, Texas State University, $2000. (Submitted: February 2024, Funded: September 2024 - May 2025). Grant.
  • Konur, Dincer. McCoy College Faculty Development Funding, McCoy College of Business, Institutional (Higher Ed), $1300. (Submitted: September 2023, Funded: September 2023 - Present). Grant.
  • Konur, Dincer. Static vs. Dynamic Trucking in Inventory Management with Environmental Considerations, McCoy College of Business, Institutional (Higher Ed), $8000. (Submitted: December 2022, Funded: December 2022 - September 2023). Grant.
  • Konur, Dincer (Principal). Omnichannel Design and Planning with Showrooms, Texas State University, $8000. (Submitted: October 8, 2021, Funded: January 2022 - May 2023). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Editorial Review Board Member
Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review
September 2017-Present
Officer
Logistics and Supply Chain Division, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers
June 2019-April 2020
President
Logistics and Supply Chain Division, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers
May 2018-May 2019
Co-Chair
Facilities Design and Planning Track, IISE Annual Conference and Expo
September 2017-May 2018
Assistant Chair
Dept. of Information Systems and Analytics
September 2023-Present