Professor Hakan Ph.D. is currently with the Department of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering and Technology, American University of the Middle East, Kuwait. He was the Head of the Department of Industrial Engineering, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Istanbul Medipol University, where he was also the Founder and the Director of the Healthcare Systems Engineering Program and Healthcare Modeling and Simulation Research Group. His research interests include operations research and systems optimization and decision analytic modeling. He acts as an Adviser for some projects of the Health Technologies Assessment Department of the Turkish Ministry of Health. During his academic career in the Turkish Naval Academy, he was the Head of the Department of Industrial Engineering, the Director of Military Operations Research Program, and the Director of the Naval Sciences and Engineering Institute.