My name is Cagin Uru. 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 focuses on sequential decision problems under uncertainty and data-driven decision making. I use stochastic modeling and techniques from optimization, applied probability, and statistics to address challenging operational problems with complex uncertainties and tradeoffs. I am particularly interested in consumer search, and more broadly, applications related to sequential search. My work in this area has been published in Management Science, featured in Duke Fuqua Insights, and received second place in the 2023 INFORMS MSOM Student Paper Competition.

I am on the 2025–2026 academic job market.