Erhan Çınlar | |
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Born |
Divriği, Sivas-Turkey |
May 28, 1941
Residence | United States |
Citizenship |
Turkish American Turkey, U.S. |
Nationality | Turkish |
Institutions | |
Alma mater | University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Michigan |
Thesis | Analysis of Systems of Queues in Parallel (1965) |
Doctoral advisor | Ralph L. Disney |
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Notable awards | Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences Saul Gass Expository Writing Award for his book Introduction to Stochastic Processes, published in 1975 by Prentice-Hall. (2003) |
Erhan Çınlar (born May 28, 1941,Divriği, Sivas-Turkey) is a probabilist and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He was The Norman J. Sollenberger Professor of the department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE) at Princeton University.
He received B.S. in Mathematics and M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research all from the University of Michigan in 1963, 1964 and 1965, respectively. In 1965, he joined to the department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences as an assistant professor at Northwestern University. During 1971-1972, he was a visiting professor in the department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University, and became full professor of Operations Research in 1972 at Northwestern. He then joined to the department of Civil Engineering and Operations Research as a professor at Princeton University in 1985.
Çinlar is the co-founder (along with Kai-lai Chung and Ronald Getoor) of the seminar on which is an annual conference on probability topics such as Markov processes, Brownian motion, superprocesses, , and mathematical finance.