Bijan Fazlollahi

 35 Broad Street, Institute of International  Business, Georgia State University 

Atlanta, GA 30302-3989

 Phone: (404)413-7283 

FAX : (404)413-7276

E-MAIL:  dscbbf@langate.gsu.edu

EDUCATION  

• Ph.D.  Syracuse University, Business Administration, 1984
• M.B.A. Syracuse University, Operations Management, 1967
• B.S.   M.I.T, Mechanical Engineering, 1962
• Certificate of International Business, University of South Carolina, 1994

AWARDS/HONORS/RECOGNITION (1984-present)

• Honorary Citizen of Georgia (the country) by Presidential Decree - December 2004
• Honorary Professorship and Doctorates from four universities in Azerbaijan and Georgian.
• Received over $3 million in US Government funding for university partnerships in Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Egypt for Ph.D, MBA and BBA, faculty development, faculty/ student exchange, and business women and others (1995-2008) plus $167,000 research grant.
• International Education Excellence Award, Georgia State University, 2002. Multiple commendation letters from President, Provost, Dean for accomplishments (1998- Present).
• Member Editorial/Advisory Board of Journal of Database Management (1997-2001).
• Fulbright Scholar Award for former USSR 1992. Innovation in Education Award- DSI, 1987

ACADEMIC POSITIONS (1984-present)

• Director of Center for Business Development in Transitional Economies (2006-Present)
• Professor, International Business- joint appointment CIS Department, Robinson College of Business, GSU. (1999 – present), Assistant and Associate Professor (1984-1999).
• Co-project Director for University partnership program “Aligning Business Education with Private Sector Needs” at Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt (2007 – Present)
• Project Director for University Partnership Program to establish Ph.D. Program in Business Administration at the Caucasus University, Tbilisi, Georgia (2004 – 2008)
• Project Director for “Leadership Training for Businesswomen of Georgia” (2002-2005)
• Project Director for four university partnership programs with universities in Azerbaijan and Republic of Georgia to establish MBA and BBA programs and train faculty. (1996- present)
• Project Director “1000-1000 Presidents’ student exchange program” (1995-1996)
• Faculty advisor for Fulbright, Muskie and NAFSA fellows from former USSR (1994-1998)

NON-ACADEMIC BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT POSITIONS (1963-1980)

• Member Board of Directors, Consumers Organization, Ministry of Commerce, Iran (1980).
• President and Member of Board of Directors, Technical and Soil Test Laboratories (1,500 employees), Ministry of Transportation, Iran (1977).
• Head of Operations (7,000 employees), Ports and Navigation Authority of Iran (1972).
• Plant Manager, Pars Lux Auto Mfg. Co. (German project, 500 employees), Tehran, Iran (1970).
• Director Plant Erections (1,500 employees), Iranian National Steel Corporation, Iran (1966).
• Design and Development Engineer, John Deere Co., Dubuque, Iowa (1963).

CONSULTING
Design and building of: (1) Facilities Management Information System for Atlanta International Airport, (2) Requirements analysis for the Urban Street Gang Intelligence System for Atlanta Police Department.

SELECTED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS:

• R.A Aliev, B. Fazlollahi, “Fuzzy-genetic approach to aggregate production-distribution planning in supply chain management”, Information Sciences, issue 177, 2007, pp 4241-4255
• R.A. Aliev, B. Fazlollahi, R.R. Aliev, B. Quirimov, “Fuzzy time series prediction method based on fuzzy recurrent neural network”,  Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4233, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2006, pp 860-869.
• Vahidov, R, Fazlollahi, B, “Pluralistic Multi-agent Decision Support System: a Framework and an Empirical Test”, Information and Management, Vol. 41, September 2004, pp. 883-898.
• Vahidov, R, Fazlollahi, B, “A Multi-Agent DSS for Supporting E-Commerce Decisions”, Journal of Computer Information Systems, Vol. XLIV, N2, Winter 2003-2004, pp.87-94.
• Aliev, R.A., Fazlollahi, B, Vahidov, R. M., "Genetic Algorithms-based Fuzzy Regression Analysis," Soft Computing Journal, Vol. 6, Num 6, September 2002, pp. 470-475.
• Fazlollahi, B, Vahidov, R. M. “A Method for Generation of Alternatives by Decision Support Systems”, Journal of Management  Information Systems, vol. 18, n2, pp. 225-246, 2001.
• Parikh, M, Fazlollahi B, and Sameer Verma.  “The Effectiveness of Decisional Guidance: An Empirical Evaluation”, Decision Sciences Journal, vol. 32, n2, pp. 303- 331, 2001.
• Aliev, R.A., Fazlollahi, B, Vahidov, R. M. “Genetic Algorithm-based Learning of Fuzzy Neural Networks. Part 1: Feed-Forward Fuzzy Neural Networks,” Fuzzy Sets and Systems, March 1, 2001, v118/n2, North-Holland. pp351-358.
• Fazlollahi, B.,  Parikh, M. , Verma,  S.  "Adaptive Decision support Systems Architecture," Journal of Decision Support Systems, 20,1997. pp 297-315.
• Fazlollahi, B., and Gordon, J., "CATCH: Computer Assisted Tracking of Criminal Histories System," Interfaces, 1993, Vol. 23, N 2, 51-62.
• Jain, H., Tanniru, M., and Fazlollahi, B., "MCDM Approach for Generating and Evaluating Alternatives in Requirements Analysis", Information Systems Research, 1991, V. 2, N.3, pp. 223-239.

BOOKS

• Soft Computing and its Applications in Business and Economics, Springer, 2004
• Strategies for eCommerce Success, Bijan Fazlollahi, Editor IRM Press, 2002

SUPERVISION OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATION
Served as Dissertation Chairman in the area of Decision Sciences for several students and was Dissertation committee member and committee examiner for many more.

INTERNATIONAL TEACHING AND CONTINUING EDUCATION ACTIVITIES
Taught courses “Applied Decision Sciences” at University of Venda, South Africa, 2003; and ten times for the EMBA program of  Poznan University of Economics, Poland (1996 - 2005); Management Development Program for Georgian Executives, Georgia (2001); Faculty Development Program for Azeri Faculty, Baku(1998); international business and computer information in the MBAs in Azerbaijan and Georgia (1997 – present).