Tahir Ekin

Tahir Ekin is Fields Chair in Business Analytics and Professor of Analytics at McCoy College of Business, Texas State University. He also serves as the founding director of TXST Center for Analytics and Data Science. His teaching experience include the areas of statistics, optimization, data mining and analytics. His areas of expertise include health care fraud analytics and decision modeling under uncertainty. His research has been funded by federal, state and private agencies and foundations including National Science Foundation, Air Force Scientific Office of Research, Texas Health and Human Services, and BBVA Foundation. In addition to dozens of scholarly articles, Dr. Ekin authored a book, “Statistics and Health Care Fraud: How to Save Billions.” Dr. Ekin holds a Ph.D. in Decision Sciences from The George Washington University, and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University, Turkey. He is an elected member of International Statistical Institute.