Prof. ALİ SAİT ALBAYRAK

He was born in Çaykara district of Trabzon. He completed his primary and secondary education in Çaykara. He graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Business Administration in 1991. In 1993, he passed the Scholarship Research Assistantship Exam of the Council of Higher Education and started to work as a Research Assistant in the Department of Quantitative Methods, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Business Administration. He went to the United States of America in 1994 with the HEC scholarship he won. Between 1994 and 1997, he completed his foreign language and master's degree (MBA) at Fairleigh Dickinson University and started to work at Bulent Ecevit University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Business Administration.

He worked as a Research Assistant at Istanbul University Faculty of Business Administration Department of Quantitative Methods between 1999-2003 in order to complete his doctoral studies. In 1999, in the Department of Quantitative Methods at Istanbul University Faculty of Business (Institute of Social Sciences) Dr. He began his doctoral studies under the supervision of Neyran Orhunbilge "Investigation with Multivariate Statistical Methods Levels of Socioeconomic Development of the Province in Turkey" in 2003 with a thesis entitled. Albayrak's thesis was awarded in the category of doctoral dissertations of  "The 2005 Ünal AYSAL Awarded Thesis Competition" organized by the Economic Research Foundation, and 2000 copies were printed. While continuing his doctorate studies, he completed his military service as a short-term private at the Command of Istanbul War Academies between 2001-2002. In 2004, he started to work as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Quantitative Methods, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Business Administration at Bülent Ecevit University. He passed the Associate Professorship Exam he entered on 04.06.2010 and was given the title and authority of University Associate Professor in the Field of Quantitative Decision Methods. He has been working as a Professor at Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Numerical Methods, Department of Business Administration since 01.09.2015.

Albayrak, who has published books, book chapters, research projects, numerous national and international articles and notices, and is on the referee boards of various journals, conducts various statistics and research methods courses at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels. Between 2005 and 2011, Albayrak served as the Deputy Director of the Institute of Social Sciences at Bülent Ecevit University, Vice Head of the Department of Business Administration and Head of the Department of Numerical Methods.

Albayrak served as Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences at Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University (RTEÜ) and the Head of the Department of Business Administration (2011-2014) during the 2011-2016 period.

Albayrak, who is still working as a Professor in the Department of Quantitative Methods, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences at Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University, has been working as the Dean of RTEÜ Ardeşen Tourism Faculty and Ardeşen Vocational School since 2016.

Albayrak is married and has a daughter named Feyza and two sons named Burak and Ümit. Albayrak has a good command of English.