Refik Soyer is a professor of decision sciences and of statistics at the George Washington University (GWU). He also serves as the director of the Institute for Integrating Statistics in Decision Sciences at GWU. He was the Mitch Blaser Distinguished Scholar in Business Analytics (2013-2018) and served as the Chair of the Department of Decision Sciences (2011-2015)
He received his DSc (1985) in operations research from GW, MSc (1979) in operational research from the University of Sussex, England and BA (1978) in economics from Bogazici University, Turkey. His area of interests are Bayesian statistics and decision analysis, stochastic modeling, statistical aspects of reliability analysis, and time series analysis.
Dr. Soyer has published over 150 articles and directed 18 doctoral dissertations. His work has appeared in Statistics and OR/MS journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, Biometrics, Statistical Science, Technometrics, International Statistical Review, Management Science, Production and Operations Management, European Journal of Operational Research and Naval Research Logistics. His research was supported by National Science Foundation and Army Research Office.
He is a co-author of the book titled Dynamic Time Series Models using R-INLA and has also co-edited a volume titled Mathematical Reliability: An Expository Perspective. Refik Soyer is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, Fellow of the Turkish Statistical Association, a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and Fellow of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis. He was vice president of the International Association for Statistical Computing and was the founding chair of the Industrial Statistics Section of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis. He served on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Statistical Association and was a guest editor of Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, Decision Analysis, and Reliability Engineering and System Safety. He is currently an associate editor of the Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry and serves on the editorial board of the Entropy.