Dr. Kaan Katircioglu is currently the senior direction of data science at Microsoft. He manages the statistical demand forecasting practice for the entire portfolio of Azure cloud products for infrastructure planning. Prior to Microsoft, he held a senior analyst position at Google as member of the cloud infrastructure planning organization. He started his career at IBM Watson Research as a research scientist, performed as people manager, relationship manager for travel and transportation industry, and research consultant for IBM customers. In 2011, he was selected to be a member of the Academy of Technology, IBM’s think-tank organization. In 2012, he led the incubation of “Supply Chain Scenario Modeler” solution that helped McKesson Corporation reduce its working capital by $1 billion. He was recognized as a Franz Edelman Prize Laureate at INFORMS 2013 competition. Throughout his career, he conducted 50+ projects, published 30+ scientific papers, and received 20+ patents for his inventions. He appeared at several conferences as invited speaker, panelist, and session chain. His experience spans areas such as analytics and optimization, supply chain management, IT services management, demand and supply planning, process design, statistical modeling and forecasting, stochastic processes, and simulation. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Master’s in Statistics, and Ph.D. in Operations Research / Management Science.
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