Burcin Bozkaya

Dr. Burcin Bozkaya is a senior developer relations manager at NIVIDA, enabling the AI ecosystem with GPU-accelerated software stack, including NVIDIA cuOpt for open-source accelerated decision intelligence, NVIDIA agentic software and open large language models, NVIDIA blueprints, and more. Burcin holds a doctoral degree in Management Science from University of Alberta, Canada, specializing in combinatorial optimization problems and heuristic optimization. As the Developer Relations lead for decision intelligence, Burcin engages with the developer ecosystem to evangelize and support the open-source community, major optimization ISV partners and key business planners for developing and deploying accelerated optimization solvers. Burcin also serves as the strategic leadership board member for COIN-OR Foundation. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Dr. Bozkaya was a Professor and Director of Data Science at New College of Florida, Visiting Professor at MIT Media Lab, Professor of Business Analytics and Operations Management at Sabanci Business School in Istanbul, Türkiye, and co-founder and co-director of Behavioral Analytics of Visualization Lab at Sabanci University, co-founded with MIT Media Lab, and also took on administrative roles as Associate Dean at Sabanci Business School, Director of Sabanci MBA Program and Co-Director of Sabanci ITM Program. Dr. Bozkaya is an author of 50+ peer-reviewed academic articles in reputable journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Scientific Reports, Expert Systems with Applications, and Computers & OR.