Aytun Ozturk – Young Professional

Options and Opportunities

by Kim Baxter Aytun Ozturk can’t help getting a little analytical when it comes to making decisions. That’s what you get when you’ve studied subjects like stochastic optimization, indus- trial engineering and operations research. It’s what happens when you’ve earned a Ph.D. in a field so complicated it takes longer than five minutes to even explain it in layman’s terms. Ozturk is someone who makes decisions by writing algorithms rather than resorting to the simple pro/con lists most of us use. “In life you make those decisions based on your experience; what hap- pened in the past, and how you acted,” he explains. “But there is a more structured way of making those same decisions … it is not only a science, but also an art.” Click here to read the complete article

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