Expertise
- Management Consulting
- Scheduling
- Data Driven Approaches
- Simulation
- Analytics
- Operations Research
- Incentive Alignment
- Healthcare Operations
- Spreadsheets & VBA
- Process & Flow Analysis
- Project Management
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Research Publications
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Professor Mehmet A. Begen is an industrial engineer, a management scientist and an associate in the Ivey Business School at the Western University. Besides Ivey, he is cross-appointed at the departments of Statistical & Actuarial Sciences and Epidemiology & Biostatistics at the Western.
Mehmet's research interests are management science/analytics applications, data-driven approaches and in particular scheduling and operations management in healthcare. He has been a PI or co-PI for NSERC Discovery Grants, Cancer Care Ontario Research Grant, NSERC Undergraduate Student Awards and others. Mehmet’s research won a top prize in the “Optimize the Real World” competition hosted by FICO for solving real business problems with use of analytics, developing mathematical models with data and obtaining managerial insights.
He has PhD and MS degrees in management science from Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia, and a BS degree in industrial engineering from Middle East Technical University in Turkey.
Mehmet is a Certified Analytics Professional (CAP), worked in management consulting before his PhD studies and is a recipient of CORS (Canadian Operational Research Society) Practice Prize and served as the president of CORS. He teaches courses on analytical modelling, financial analytics, analytics projects, big data tools and statistics.
Teaching
- Decision Making with Analytics, MBA, AMBA and HBA
- Ivey Field Project, MMA
- Art of Modelling, MSc, MMA
- Business Statistics, MSc
- Business Fundamentals (Analytics), MBA Direct
- Applications of Stochastic Modeling, PhD
- Quantitative Analysis, Preparatory Knowledge Program, MBA
- End User Modeling (Spreadsheet Analytics and VBA), HBA
- Healthcare Analytics (Health Sector), MBA
- Best Practices: Competing with Analytics, MSc
- Business Project, MSc
- Financial Analytics, MBA and HBA
Education
- PhD, Management Science - Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
- MSc, Management Science - Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
- BSc, Industrial Engineering - Middle East Technical University
Honours & Awards
- Ivey Research Merit Award
- Ivey Teaching Excellence Award
- Dean’s Research Faculty Fellowship
- Meritorious Reviewer Award (INFORMS Journal on Computing)
- Eldon Gunn Service Award, Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS)
- Ivey Bridge Award
- Practice Prize, Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS)
- CORS President
- Winner of FICO’s “Optimize the Real World” contest, 2014
- Certified Analytics Professional (CAP)