Musa Caglar is a Professor of Practice in Business Analytics and Management Science at the A. B. Freeman Business School, Tulane University. He has been serving on the faculty since January 2018. He teaches business analytics, SQL & business intelligence, modeling & analytics, and web analytics courses at the A.B. Freeman School of Business. He is also owner of the www.webanalyticsclass.com to teach web analytics at its best via experiential learning. As a supplemental platform for his analytics classes, Musa highly recommends DataCamp, which offers great foundational hands-on courses in Excel, Tableau, SQL, Python, and R for data analytics.
 

Musa has many years of non-academic professional experience in business analytics and evidence-based decision-making to support national science, technology, and innovation policy. He completed his Ph.D. while he was working rigorously at the National Science Foundation equivalent of Turkey. In his Ph.D. dissertation, motivated by the problems that exist in the practice of public R&D project portfolio management, he provides innovative implementations of analytics & operations research approaches for research councils that are aiming to integrate methodologies of data analytics, mathematical modeling & optimization including fairness concerns, and simulation for better R&D project portfolio management.

Conducting research and contributing to the literature of operations research and analytics are important to him. His research interests include the application of optimization, simulation, and machine learning algorithms to practical analytics problems in public sector organizations, healthcare and finance. His research has been published in peer-reviewed academic journals such as Annals of Operations Research, OR Spectrum, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Expert Systems with Applications, among others.

He earned his MS and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering (Operations Research and Management Science) at top-notch METU, Ankara, Turkey. He received his bachelor`s degree in Industrial Engineering (Operations & Supply Chain Management/Information Systems) from the top-notch School of Management at ITU, Istanbul, Turkey.