Derya Ipek Eroglu, Ph.D.

Derya Ipek Eroglu, tenure-track faculty in Computing Sciences at SUNY Brockport

Tenure-track faculty · Computing Sciences · SUNY Brockport

I study how people and organizations make decisions about the computing systems they build and adopt — and what happens when those systems start making decisions back.

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My work sits in the overlap between technology and society: Digital Platforms, Text Analytics, and the wider problem of getting more out of data by understanding the systems that produce it. In practice that means Data Mining, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning — methods that have been around for decades and now travel under a single, overworked heading, Artificial Intelligence. What holds my attention is the meeting point of technology and language, and a passion for technology for good, whether it takes the form of Generative AI or of Platform Design.

I am tenure-track faculty in the Department of Computing Sciences at SUNY Brockport, where I teach and advise students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

My training is in Industrial Engineering, and it still shapes how I think: I approach systems with a big-picture lens, then get analytical about the details without letting that big picture slip to the back. Mostly I am looking for the system behind the symptom.

Research interests

  • Social Media Platforms & Society
  • Persuasion in Social Media
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Representation Learning & Text Analytics
  • Computational Social Science
  • Unsupervised Learning & Clustering
  • Genetic Algorithms & Heuristic Optimization

Education

Ph.D. · 2023
Business Information Technology — Virginia Tech Dissertation: Medium is the Message
M.S. · 2019
Industrial Engineering — Middle East Technical University Thesis: A Unified Approach for Center-Based Clustering on Networks
B.S. · 2015
Industrial Engineering — Middle East Technical University magna cum laude

Awards

2026
Teacher of the Year — College of Arts & Sciences, SUNY Brockport
2025
Provost Faculty Fellowship for Project-Based Learning — SUNY Brockport
2022
Outstanding Reviewer Award — 30th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS)
2021
Top 25% Paper Award — AMCIS 2021
2017
Highest-Performing Master’s Student — Department of Industrial Engineering, Middle East Technical University

Teaching

I teach across three areas, and can build courses into each:

  • Operations Research & ManagementOptimization, Linear and Network Programming, Decision Analysis, and Management Science.
  • Information Systems & Business AnalyticsApplied Statistics, Business Intelligence, Data Management, and Decision Support.
  • Programming & ComputationIntroductory and Object-Oriented Programming, Web Development, Scientific Computing, and Deep Learning.

Full course list on the Teaching page.

Professional service

Memberships
Association for Information Systems (AIS), INFORMS (Data Mining Section), and the ACM.
Reviewing
AMCIS, the Academy of Management (AOM), ECIS, HICSS, ISCRAM, Natural Hazards Review, and Annals of Operations Research; session co-chair at INFORMS.
At Brockport
Advisor to the Women in Technology club; department social-media coordinator and content creator; Scholar’s Day judge; and departmental service across student recruitment and engagement, accreditation, and personnel recognition.

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