
Gorkem Turgut (G.T.) Ozer
Prior to earning his Ph.D. in Information, Risk, and Operations Management from the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin, he completed doctoral work in Strategic Management. He holds an MBA with a thesis on cognitive biases in financial decision making and an MSc in Management Information Systems. Outside of academia, he has advised companies at the executive level on data centricity and digital transformation, founded tech companies as an entrepreneur, and mentored startups on strategy making in technology ecosystems. He is a backcountry camper, nature lover, coder, and Go player, who cares and acts for the good of the other 8.7 million species.
Courses Taught
- ADMN 872: Predictive Analytics
- ADMN/DS 898/720: Topics/Regression Analytics
- DS 720/898: top/Pred Analy: Regress Model
- DS 772/872: Predictive Analytics&Modeling
- DS 772/898: Predictive Analytics&Modeling
- DS 810: Big Data
- INCO 790: Advanced Research Experience
Education
- Ph.D., Information, Risk & Operations Management, University of Texas at Austin
- M.B.A., Management Information Systems, Middle East Tech Univ
- B.S., Business/Commerce, TOBB University of Econ & Tech
Research Interests
- Artificial Intelligence
- Big Data
- Digital Economics / Economy
- Information Science/Systems
- Longitudinal data analysis
Selected Publications
Ozer, G. T., Greenwood, B. N., & Gopal, A. (2024). Noisebnb: An Empirical Analysis of Home-Sharing Platforms and Residential Noise Complaints. Information Systems Research, 35(4), 1824-1847. doi:10.1287/isre.2022.0070
Ozer, G. T., Greenwood, B. N., & Gopal, A. (2022). Digital Multisided Platforms and Women's Health: An Empirical Analysis of Peer-to-Peer Lending and Abortion Rates. INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH. doi:10.1287/isre.2022.1126
Anderson, E. G., Lewis, K., & Ozer, G. T. (2018). Combining stock‐and‐flow, agent‐based, and social network methods to model team performance. System Dynamics Review, 34(4), 527-574. doi:10.1002/sdr.1613
Ozer, G., Wang, Y., & Gopal, A. (2024, December 15). Does Black Music also matter? The Effect of The George Floyd’s Death on Hip-hop Music Streaming in the United States. In Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE). Bangkok, Thailand.
Ozer, G. T. G. T., Greenwood, B., & Gopal, A. (2023, December). Let it Ride! An Empirical Investigation of Problem Gambling and the Implications of Legalized Sports Betting on Societal Outcomes. In Workshop on Information Systems & Economics (WISE). Hyderabad, India.
Ozer, G. T. G. T., Greenwood, B., & Gopal, A. (2024, June). Let it Ride! An Empirical Investigation of Problem Gambling and the Implications of Legalized Sports Betting on Societal Outcomes. In Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research (SCECR). Carcavelos, Portugal.
Wang, Y., Ozer, G. T., & Gopal, A. (n.d.). Black Music Matters as well? The Effects of #BlackLivesMatter on Digital Music Consumption in the United States. MIS Quarterly.
Ozer, G. T., & Gopal, A. (2022, December 14). Does AI Help in “Getting the Picture”? – On Comparing the Effectiveness of Algorithms and Craftsmen in Helping Search and Discovery on Craft Platforms. In Workshop on Information Systems & Economics (WISE). Copenhagen, Denmark.
Ozer, G. T., Paulson, C., & Hu, D. (2022, June 7). Time Series Anomaly Detection in the Age of Big Data: Matching Data Generation Processes with Algorithms. In Symposium on Data Science and Statistics (SDSS) by American Statistical Association. Pittsburgh, PA.
Ozer, G. T. G. T., Wang, Y., & Gopal, A. (2023, December). Does Black Music also matter? The Effect of The George Floyd’s Death on Hip-hop Music Streaming in the United States. In International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). Hyderabad, India.