Ph.D., Bogazici University, Istanbul-Turkey, 1999

M.S., Bogazici University, Istanbul-Turkey, 1995

B.S., Bogazici University, Istanbul-Turkey, 1994

Dr. Orcun is responsible for all phases of large-scale research efforts. This includes developing research topics, assembling
multi-disciplinary teams, authoring and coordinating the technical content of large proposals to federal funding agencies, coordinating the work of faculty, post doctoral scholars and students on large grants, and conducting significant portions of the research on such grants. An associate research scientist is expected to develop, lead, and sustain a world-class research group.

Dr. Orcun joined Purdue University as a post-doctoral research associate in early 1999 and promoted to full-time research associate in the School of Chemical Engineering in early 2002. He accepted his current appointment in mid 2004. During his time at Bogazici University, Dr. Orcun interned at Marshall Paint and Varnish Co. (Gebze, Istanbul) and Herberts GmbH (Wuppertal, Germany) with the responsibility of being both a teaching assistant and a system administrator in chemical engineering at Bogazici. During his assignment at Purdue, he has conducted several industrial projects in scheduling as an independent consultant to PPG, Eli Lilly and Procter and Gamble through Advanced Process Combinatorics, Inc., a software development consulting company in the Purdue Research Park. Dr. Orcun’s research in scheduling and planning of processes in industries focuses on developing novel and practical scheduling and planning tools/environments, which can be used in daily decision making as well as in training programs for industrial practices. Dr. Orcun applies and develops process and systems engineering approaches and methods to complex systems, as well as facilitates interdisciplinary research in the fields of supply chain modeling-design-management, systems biology, medical intervention planning-design, life sciences (especially in cancer care) engineering, advanced life support systems analysis, and high fidelity multi-scale model building. He is also leading designing and developing small to large scale research enabling environments and teaching modules such as “Purdue University Omics Pipeline at Discovery Park,” “Purdue Ionomics Information Management System (PiiMS),” “e-Enterprise Center Electronic Laboratory Notebook (EEC ELN),” “Supply Chain Optimization Protocol Environment (SCOPE),” “Model Building Environment (ModQuest),” and “Custom Interactive Process Scheduling Modules (TAMES).”