Oguzhan Alagoz is Procter & Gamble Bascom Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests include stochastic optimization, medical decision making, completely and partially observable Markov decision processes, simulation, risk-prediction modeling, and health technology assessment. He served as a member of ISPOR-SMDM Modeling Good Research Practices Task Force which developed recommendations for good modeling practices in state-transition modeling for the evaluation of health care decisions in 2012. He is also co-leading the University of Wisconsin Breast Cancer Simulation Model, a member of the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network, that was used to inform national breast cancer screening guidelines in the US in 2016 and 2023. He is currently serving as an associate editor for Operations Research. He previously served as the editor-in-chief of IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering, the flagship journal of IISE in the area of healthcare systems engineering and on the editorial board of Medical Decision Making and IISE Transactions. He is an elected fellow of IISE. He published over 110 refereed journal articles throughout his career. Furthermore, he has received various awards including a CAREER award from National Science Foundation (NSF), outstanding young industrial engineer in education award from IISE, Dantzig Dissertation Honorable Mention Award from INFORMS, 2nd place award from INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group best paper competition, best paper award from INFORMS Service Science Section, best podium presentation award from ISPOR, and best poster award from UW Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center. He has been the principal investigator and co-investigator on grants totaling over $7 million, with an average annual research funding of approximately $500K, primarily funded by NIH and NSF.