Ph.D. - Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Wisconsin at Madison - 2012
Professional Preparation
M.S. - Management Science & Engineering
Stanford University - 2005
Stanford University - 2005
B.S. - Industrial Engineering
Texas A&M University - 2003
Texas A&M University - 2003
Research Areas
Research Interests
- Algorithmic Decision Making
- Economics of Health Information/IT
- Healthcare Analytics
- Medical Decision Making
- Digital Vulnerabilities
- Healthcare Operations Management
Application Areas
- Health Information Exchanges
- Patient-Oriented Technologies
- Decisions in Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Transplantation
- Healthcare Payment and Delivery Reform
Methods
- Econometrics
- Markov Decision Processes
- Game Theory
- Machine Learning
Publications
The Economic Value of a Transplant Nephrologist: The Case For Improving Compensation. Ayvaci MUS, Giacoma T, Abouljoud M. S., Tanriover B. American Journal of Transplantation 2025 - Publication
Economics of AI and Human Task Sharing for Decision Making in Screening Mammography. Ahsen ME, Ayvaci MUS, Mookerjee R, Stolovitzky G · Nature Communications 2025 - Publication
Value of Algorithm-Enabled Process Innovation: The Case of Sepsis. Adjerid I, Ayvaci MUS,
Ozer O · MS&OM 2023 - Publication
Ozer O · MS&OM 2023 - Publication
The Business of Healthcare: Physician Integration in Bundled Payments. Vlachy J, Ayer T,
Ayvaci MUS, Raghunathan S. · MS&OM 2023 - Publication
Ayvaci MUS, Raghunathan S. · MS&OM 2023 - Publication
When IT Creates Legal Vulnerability: Not Just Overutilization but Underprovisioning of Health
Care Could be a Consequence. Kim Y, Ayvaci MUS, Raghunathan S, Ayer T · MIS Quarterly 2022 - Publication
Care Could be a Consequence. Kim Y, Ayvaci MUS, Raghunathan S, Ayer T · MIS Quarterly 2022 - Publication
Payment Mechanisms, Incentives for Adoption, and Value of Health Information Exchanges (HIEs)'' Ayvaci MUS, Cavusoglu H, Kim Y, Raghunathan S. MIS Quarterly 2019 - Publication
"The Impact of Health Information Exchanges on Emergency Department Length of Stay" Ayer T,Ayvaci MUS, Karaca Z, Vlachy J Production and Operations Management 28 (3), 740-758. 2019 - Publication
"When Algorithmic Predictions Use Human-Generated Data: A Bias-Aware Classification Algorithmfor Breast Cancer Diagnosis" Ahsen ME, Ayvaci MUS, Raghunathan S Information SystemsResearch 30 (1), 97-116 2019 - Publication
Awards
Sanjay and Panna Mehrotra Research Excellence Award - Health Application Society INFORMS [2024]
Prabuddhe De Best Paper Award - Workshop on Information Technology and Systems [2023]
Best Paper Award Runner Up - Information Systems Society [2023]
Best Paper Award - POMS College of Healthcare Operations [2021]
Best Published Paper Award - Information Systems Research [2020]
Best Paper Award - INFORMS eBusiness Section [2018]
Best Paper Award Runner Up - CHITA [2018]
Distinguished Service Award - Management Science [2017]
Best Young Researcher Award - CHITA/WHITE [2016]
Best Paper Award Finalist - INFORMS CIST [2015]
Appointments
Associate Professor
UT Dallas [2019–Present]
UT Dallas [2019–Present]
Visitin Assistant Professor
UT Austin [2017–2018]
UT Austin [2017–2018]
Assistant Professor
UT Dallas [2012–2019]
UT Dallas [2012–2019]
News Articles
Health Information Exchanges May Remedy Long Emergency Stays
Hospitals that adopt health information exchanges can reduce the amount of time patients stay in emergency departments, according to a new study from the Naveen Jindal School of Management at The University of Texas at Dallas.Health information exchanges (HIEs) are technology platforms that ease the exchange of patient information between different health care providers and settings, including labs, hospitals, physician practices and pharmacies, said Dr. Mehmet Ayvaci, an assistant professor of information systems.