Oktay Taş

Oktay Taş is a Professor at Istanbul Technical University's Department of Management Engineering, with a focus on finance and risk management. His career spans over two decades in academia, primarily concentrated on Turkish financial markets.

• Education: PhD (1998) and MA (1993) from Marmara University in Accounting/Finance, Licence (1989) in Business Administration.
• Administrative Roles: Served as Head of Department of Management Engineering at ITU (2005-2013).

Research interests include:

• Volatility and price dynamics in emerging capital markets
• Stochastic dominance applications in portfolio selection
• Electricity price forecasting using hybrid models
• Social media sentiment's impact on stock trading
• Real option valuation for renewable energy investments

His work spans diverse methodologies from fuzzy logic to behavioral finance, with international collaborations evident in his fingerprint data (Turkey: 64%, International Stock Returns: 50%, etc.).

• Scientific Awards:
  • Best Paper Award (Işık University, 2016)

Active in grant-funded research, notable projects include sentiment-driven portfolio optimization (2023) and electricity price modeling (2018). His 9 h-index and 485 Scopus citations reflect significant scholarly impact.