The research of Ali Parlaktürk focuses on understanding the impact of strategic customer behavior, product choice and supply chain design on operational decisions. He teaches service operations and operations management.

Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management and Production and Operations Management have published his research. Dr. Parlaktürk’s research on “Self Interested Customer Routing in Queueing Networks” received the honorable mention in the George Nicholson Student Paper Competition.

He received his PhD in operations, information and technology from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, his MS in statistics from Stanford University, and his BS in industrial engineering from Bilkent University in Turkey.