Erhan Çınlar (born May 28, 1941,[3] Divriği, Sivas-Turkey[2]) is a probabilist and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He was the Norman J. Sollenberger Professor of the department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE) at Princeton University.[4]

Erhan Çınlar
Born (1941-05-28) May 28, 1941 (age 83)[3]
NationalityTurkish
CitizenshipTurkish American
Turkey, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Michigan
Known forContributions to the theory of stochastic processes and their applications to queueing theory.
AwardsInstitute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences Saul Gass Expository Writing Award for his book Introduction to Stochastic Processes, published in 1975 by Prentice-Hall. (2003)
Scientific career
Institutions
ThesisAnalysis of Systems of Queues in Parallel (1965)
Doctoral advisorRalph L. Disney[1]

Academic life

edit

He received a B.S. in Mathematics and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, all from the University of Michigan in 1963, 1964 and 1965, respectively.[5] His dissertation, Analysis of Systems of Queues in Parallel, was supervised by Ralph L. Disney.

In 1965, he joined the department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences as an assistant professor at Northwestern University. During 1971–1972, he was a visiting professor in the department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University, and became full professor of Operations Research in 1972 at Northwestern. He then joined the department of Civil Engineering and Operations Research as a professor at Princeton University in 1985.[6][7]

Research areas

edit

Çinlar is the co-founder (along with Kai-lai Chung and Ronald Getoor) of the seminar on stochastic processes,[8] which is an annual conference on probability topics such as Markov processes, Brownian motion, superprocesses, stochastic analysis, and mathematical finance.[9]

Awards

edit

References

edit
  1. ^ Erhan Çınlar at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ a b Lebensdaten nach American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2004
  3. ^ a b ""Erhan Çinlar", Eugene B. Dynkin Collection of Mathematics Interviews". Cornell University Library. Archived from the original on 2021-07-30.
  4. ^ Faculty of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University
  5. ^ Erhan Çinlar's biography
  6. ^ "The Department of Civil Engineering and Operations Research (CEOR) at Princeton". Archived from the original on 2015-12-12. Retrieved 2016-03-31.
  7. ^ Civil Engineering and Operations Research, Office of Communications at Princeton University announces that the Department of Civil Engineering and Operations Research Faculty split in two on April 9, 1999 in such a way that one will be called Civil and Environmental Engineering; the other will be Operations Research and Financial Engineering.
  8. ^ SSP History, University of Washington
  9. ^ Seminar on Stochastic Processes, University of Washington
  10. ^ "Erhan Çınlar". Archived from the original on 2012-05-24. Retrieved 2012-09-07.
  11. ^ Fellows: Alphabetical List, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, archived from the original on 2019-05-10, retrieved 2019-10-09