Tahir Ekin

Tahir Ekin is the Fields Chair in Business Analytics and a Professor of Analytics at McCoy College of Business, Texas State University. He specializes in health care fraud analytics and decision modeling under uncertainty. His book, “Statistics and Health Care Fraud: How to Save Billions," is part of the ASA-CRC Series. Dr. Ekin's research, funded by over $1M from agencies like NSF and Texas Health and Human Services, has been featured in journals such as the European Journal of Operational Research and The American Statistician. He has received numerous awards, including from ISBIS and ASA, and held the Brandon Dee Roberts Endowed Professorship. He earned his Ph.D. in Decision Sciences from The George Washington University.