My name is Cagin (pronounced "cha-uhn"). I am a PhD candidate in Decision Sciences at Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, where I am advised by Prof. David B. Brown. 

My research mainly focuses on sequential decision problems under uncertainty and data-driven decision-making. Specifically, I use stochastic modeling and techniques from optimization, applied probability and statistics to develop and analyze solution methods and algorithms for challenging operational problems. I am particularly interested in consumer search and, more broadly, applications related to sequential search.

Prior to Duke, I received my BS and MS degrees in Industrial Engineering from Sabanci University and Bilkent University, respectively.

Publications

Sequential Search with Acquisition Uncertainty
with David B. Brown
Management Science, 70(11):7712-7729.

1. •  Second place, MSOM Student Paper Competition 2023.

Compound Poisson Disorder Problem with Uniformly Distributed Disorder Time
with Savas Dayanik and Semih O. Sezer
Bernoulli 29(3):2272-2294.

Working Papers

Distribution-Free Search
with David B. Brown