Ilker Cingillioglu

Dr Ilker Cingillioglu

Senior Lecturer

Adelaide Business School

Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Ilker is a Senior Lecturer in Business Analytics, leading the development of the Undergraduate Business Analytics program for the new Adelaide University (merger of Uni Adelaide and UniSA). Prior to academia, he was an AIM-recognized education consultant who helped many students fulfil their academic and career aspirations. With 20 years in higher education, including 10 years as a tertiary educator, he has a strong track record of academic excellence as he has created and coordinated numerous undergraduate and graduate courses, co-designed an undergraduate program, and received 4 prestigious Teaching & Innovation Awards from top-tier universities. Ilker uses R, Python, Json, Tableau, IBM Watson and Voiceflow for various data analytics projects and applications including but not limited to AI-led RCTs, ML classification, and AI-based chatbot development and is certified by Harvard University in Data Science and by Oxford University in E-tutoring. He is also a tennis player/coach.

AI, chatbots, RCTs, Information systems, big data analytics

  • Appointments
    Date Position Institution name
    2024 - 2025 Senior Lecturer in Business Analytics University of Adelaide
    2023 - ongoing Lecturer in Business Analytics University of Adelaide

  • Awards and Achievements
    Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
    2024 Award Innovations in Work Integrated Learning (WIL) Award University of Adelaide Australia -
    2024 Award Innovation in Community Engagement University of Adelaide Australia -
    2024 Award Educator of the Year University of Adelaide Australia -
    2023 Nomination Dean's Award for Feedback for Teaching (FFT) University of Sydney Australia -
    2022 Teaching Award Feedback for Teaching (FFT) Award for Teaching, 2022, S2 University of Sydney Australia -
    2022 Nomination Professional Staff Award University of Sydney Australia -
    2021 Award Best Paper Award IEEE Australia -
    2021 Nomination Students' Choice Award University of Sydney Australia -
    2021 Scholarship Enhanced Business School Scholarship University of Sydney Australia -

  • Education
    Date Institution name Country Title
    2021 - 2024 University of Sydney Australia PhD
    2019 - 2021 University of Melbourne Australia Master of Applied Analytics
    1999 - 2003 Bogazici University Turkey Bachelor of International Trade

  • Certifications
    Date Title Institution name Country
    2024 Certificate in Online Tutoring University of Oxford United Kingdom
    2021 Tutor Development Program - ELITE University of Sydney Australia
    2020 Pro Certificate in Data Science Harvard University United States

  • Research Interests
    Artificial Intelligence Higher Education Data management and data science

  • Journals
    Year Citation
    2024 Cingillioglu, I., Gal, U., & Prokhorov, A. (2024). Social media marketing for student recruitment: an algorithmically sequenced literature review. Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 34(2), 1101-1123.
    DOI Scopus7
    2024 Cingillioglu, I., Gal, U., & Prokhorov, A. (2024). Running a double-blind true social experiment with a goal oriented adaptive AI-based conversational agent in educational research. International Journal of Educational Research, 124, 16 pages.
    DOI Scopus2
    2024 Cingillioglu, I., Gal, U., & Prokhorov, A. (2024). AI-experiments in education: An AI-driven randomized controlled trial for higher education research. Education and Information Technologies, 29(15), 19649-19677.
    DOI Scopus6
    2024 Cingillioglu, I. (2024). What impacts matriculation decisions? Identifying students’ university choice factors on a global scale with Artificial Intelligence. Studies in Higher Education, 49(12), 2637-2655.
    DOI
    2023 Cingillioglu, I. (2023). Detecting AI-generated essays: the ChatGPT challenge. International Journal of Information and Learning Technology, 40(3), 259-268.
    DOI Scopus52

  • Books
    Year Citation
    2020 Cingillioglu, I. (2020). Business Management & Leadership Essentials.
    2020 Cingillioglu, I. (2020). College Mathematics 101 Practice Questions and Answers. Independently Published.

  • Conference Papers
    Year Citation
    2023 Cingillioglu, I., Gal, U., & Prokhorov, A. (2023). Facebook Engagement and Student Preferences for Universities. In 2022 20th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET) (pp. 10 pages). Antalya, Turkey: IEEE.
    DOI
    2021 Cingillioglu, I., Gal, U., & Prokhorov, A. (2021). An Analysis of Tweet Relevance, Twitter Activity and Student Preferences for Universities. In 2021 19th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET) (pp. 01-10). IEEE.
    DOI Scopus2

BUSANA_7004: Business Analytics for Managers

BUSANA_7005: Chatbots and Text Analytics for Business

BUSANA_7006: Managing with Big Data Analytics

  • Position: Senior Lecturer
  • Phone: 83133392
  • Email: ilker.cingillioglu@adelaide.edu.au
  • Campus: North Terrace
  • Building: 10 Pulteney Street - Nexus 10 Tower, floor Twelfth Floor
  • Room: 12.22
  • Org Unit: Adelaide Business School
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