He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Arkansas. He holds a B.S. and M.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey and the University of Arkansas, respectively. Prior to joining the University of New Haven, he worked as a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Mississippi State University (MSSTATE) where he taught engineering classes in the Fall 2014. He later served as an assistant research professor in the Institute for Systems Engineering Research (ISER), jointly established by MSSTATE and the U.S. Army’s Engineer Research and Development Center.