Rate My Professor Hasan Pirkul

Hasan Pirkul is the Dean and Caruth Chair Professor of Information Systems in the Naveen Jindal School of Management at The University of Texas at Dallas, a position he has held since 1996. In Business & Economics, he has led the school's remarkable transformation, growing student enrollment from 2,252 to over 9,000 and faculty from 45 to more than 280 members, including over 20 named professorships. The school now offers over 20 academic programs, up from six, and features facilities expanded with a $38 million building in 2003 and a $25 million addition in 2013. Renamed the Naveen Jindal School of Management in 2011 following a major gift from alumnus Naveen Jindal, it has earned rankings from The Princeton Review, Bloomberg Businessweek, and U.S. News & World Report. Pirkul created the UT Dallas Top 100 Business School Research Rankings™, ranking the Jindal School fifth in North America and globally for research productivity.

He earned a Ph.D. in Computers and Information Systems and an M.S. in Management Science from the University of Rochester's Simon School in 1983 and 1980, respectively, and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Bogazici University in 1977. Before joining UT Dallas, Pirkul was a Full Professor (1991–1996), Associate Professor (1987–1991), Assistant Professor (1983–1987), and Instructor (1981–1983) at The Ohio State University College of Business. His research specializations include telecommunication network design, distributed computer system design, knowledge-based systems, facility location, neural networks, and genetic algorithms. Notable publications comprise "An Improved Augmented Neural-Networks Approach for Scheduling Problems" with A. Agarwal and V. Jacob (INFORMS Journal on Computing, 2006), "Heuristics and Augmented Neural Networks for Task Scheduling with Non-Identical Machines" with A. Agarwal, S. Colak, and V. S. Jacob (European Journal of Operational Research, 2006), and others in Decision Support Systems and Telecommunication Systems. As Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Information Technology and Management, he has held editorial roles for Management Science, Operations Research, and more. Pirkul chaired the INFORMS College on Information Systems, served on various committees, and advised 16 Ph.D. students who pursued academic careers. He received the INFORMS Information Systems Society President's Service Award and was named one of the most influential people in Collin County in 2008.