Erhan Çinlar

Erhan Çınlar
Born	May 28, 1941[1] Divriği, Sivas-Turkey[2]
Residence	United States
Citizenship	Turkish American Turkey, U.S.
Nationality	Turkish
Institutions	Princeton University
Alma mater	University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Michigan
Thesis	Analysis of Systems of Queues in Parallel (1965)
Doctoral advisor	Ralph L. Disney[3]
Known for	Vice-Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science to Professor Ahmet S. Çakmak at Princeton University during 1991-1999 His contributions to Stochastic processes and their applications to Queuing theory.
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,^[1] Divriği, Sivas-Turkey^[2]) is a probabilist and Professor Emeritus in Engineering at Princeton University.

Academic life

He received B.S.E., M.S. in Mathematics and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, all from the University of Michigan in 1963, 1964 and 1965, respectively.^[4] He was the Norman J. Sollenberger Professor of the Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE) department at Princeton University.^[5] Previously, he was a professor in the department of Civil Engineering and Operations Research.^[6][7]

Research areas

Çinlar is the co-founder (along with Kai-lai Chung and Ronald Getoor) of the seminar on stochastic processes^[8] which is an annual conference on probability topics such as Markov processes, Brownian motion, superprocesses, stochastic analysis, and mathematical finance.^[9]

Awards

• INFORMS Expository Writing Award^[10]

References

1. ""Erhan Çinlar", Eugene B. Dynkin Collection of Mathematics Interviews". Cornell University Library.
2. Lebensdaten nach American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2004
3. Erhan Çinlar at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
4. Erhan Çinlar's biography
5. Faculty of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University
6. The Department of Civil Engineering and Operations Research (CEOR) at Princeton
7. Civil Engineering and Operations Research, Office of Communications at Princeton University announces that the Department of Civil Engineering and Operations Research Faculty split in two on April 9, 1999 in such a way that one will be called Civil and Environmental Engineering; the other will be Operations Research and Financial Engineering.
8. SSP History, University of Washington
9. Seminar on Stochastic Processes, University of Washington
10. "Erhan Çınlar".