VICE-RECTORS
Professor Ahmet Emin ERBAYCU
Vice-Rector
He was born in Zonguldak. In 1992, he graduated from Uludağ University, Faculty of Medicine. He worked in Kosovo Hospital, Sarajevo Hospital and Zonguldak Chest Diseases Hospital. He completed his compulsory service in Şebinkarahisar / Giresun. Between 1993 and 1997 he specialized in ‘’ Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis’’ in Dr. Suat Seren Chest Diseases and Surgery Training and Research Hospital. He fulfilled 16 months of compulsory military service in İskenderun.
Professor Abdulkadir HIZIROĞLU
Vice-Rector
Prof. Abdulkadir Hiziroglu: He has been in academia since 2001. He started his career as a Research Assistant and worked in Informatics Department & Distance Education Centre of Sakarya University. He received a BEng degree from Sakarya University Industrial Engineering Department in 2001 and was awarded with a Master’s degree in the same area in 2003. He then pursued his PhD degree at Manchester Business School, United Kingdom. After the completion of his PhD in 2009, he worked as an Assistant Professor in Industrial Engineering & Management Information Systems Departments at Sakarya University. During the periods between 2013 and 2018, he worked in two different universities in Ankara; Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University and Social Sciences University of Ankara. He acquired the title of Associate Professor degree in 2014 in Management Information Systems area. Besides his academic duties, he respectively carried out administrative duties at Sakarya University as European Union Framework Programs Coordinator, and Vice Dean and Head of Marketing Department at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, and the General Coordinator of Rectorate Committees at Social Sciences University of Ankara. Currently, he works at Izmir Bakircay University as a Professor in Management Information Systems Department. He also worked as Secretary General of the University between the period of January 2018 and June 2020 and He is now a Vice Rector for R&D and Projects of the university. He has several research interests including data science/analytics, business intelligence & marketing/customer analytics and intelligent systems/soft computing applications in business and health domains with numerous related publications. He also has project experience in inter-disciplinary projects at national & EU-level and worked as Project Coordinator for some EU-funded projects.