Burak Hatinoglu

Burak Hatinoglu is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Michigan State University (MSU). Previously, he held similar positions at Georgia Institute of Technology (with Svetlana Jitomirskaya) and the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research focuses on spectral theory, complex function theory, approximation theory, and mathematical physics. Hatinoglu earned his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in 2020 under Alexei Poltoratski, following M.S. and B.S. degrees in Mathematics from Bilkent University.

His academic accolades include the MSU Postdoctoral Excellence in Mentoring and Teaching Award (2025), Postdoctoral Award for Excellence in Teaching (2025), and Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award (2019). He has also received scholarships from TÜBİTAK and Texas A&M University’s Dean’s office.

Research interests span spectral properties of operators (e.g., Jacobi, Schrödinger), inverse spectral problems, and applications of complex analysis to approximation theory. Recent work explores uniqueness theorems for meromorphic functions, spectral bounds for periodic systems, and analytic methods for inverse problems.

His contributions include studies on elastic beam lattices, discrete Schrödinger operators, and Widom factors in approximation theory. Current activities emphasize bridging spectral theory with mathematical physics, with a focus on operator-based models.