Baris Ata

Affiliation

Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

Topic

Achievable Rate,Bellman Equation,Channel Estimation,Channel Estimation Error,Channel State,Constant Power,Estimation Error,Fading Channel,Free Boundary,Kalman Filter,Optimal Control,Optimal Control Policy,Optimal Policy,Optimal Power,Partial Differential Equations,Pilot Symbols,Power Constraint,Power Control,Analytical Results,Block Fading,Channel Gain,Coherence Time,Current State Of The System,Data Symbols,Dynamic Programming,Estimation Error Variance,Fast Fading,Flat Fading,Low Signal-to-noise Ratio,Maximum Allowable,Monte Carlo Simulation,Optimal Boundary,Optimal Power Allocation,Parallel Channels,Rate Of Gain,Rayleigh Fading,Rayleigh Fading Channel,Restricted Diffusion,State Space,Stochastic Differential Equations,Variational Inequality,Vertical Boundary,

Biography

Baris Ata is the Ford Foundation Visiting Research Associate Professor of Operations Management at the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, and Associate Professor of Operations Management at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He received the B.S. degree in industrial engineering from Bilkent University (TURKEY) in 1997, and the M.S. degrees in engineering-economic systems and operations research (1999), business research (2000), mathematics (2001), and statistics (2002), and the Ph.D. degree in operations, information, and technology (2003) from Stanford University. He worked for McKinsey & Co. (2001) and has held visiting scholar positions at Georgia Institute of Technology (2007), New York University (2009), and Stanford University (2010). Dr. Ata serves as an Associate Editor for Operations Research, Management Science, and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. He is the corecipient of the 2009 INFORMS best paper in service science award. He is the founding director of the Operations Management Ph.D. Program at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.