Alara is an Assistant Professor of Business Analytics, AI, and Digital Transformation and the AI Initiative Paris Campus Coordinator at ESCP Business School. Her research interests revolve around the experimental/empirical analysis and optimization of choice and journey, particularly in digital settings. Some of the questions she is currently investigating are how to optimize human-LLM interactions for decision-making, how to optimize digital nudges in product listing pages and how to optimize user interfaces to improve decision-maker adherence to algorithm recommendations. She has presented her work at POMS, INFORMS, EWG Retail, and POMS International.

She holds a Ph.D. in Operations Management and Information Systems from Koç University in Istanbul and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering with a minor in Computer Science from Columbia University in New York. Before her Ph.D., she worked as a Senior Consultant at EY, focusing on strategy and marketing projects for retail, automobile, finance, textile, and telecommunication companies.

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ESCP Impact Papers

2025

TASCIOGLU, A

Responsible RAG Systems in Practice: Lessons from Commercial and Pharma use Case

ESCP Impact Papers, 2025-43-EN

ESCP Impact Papers

2025

TASCIOGLU, A

From prototype to reusable template: Designing GPT-based teaching assistants for higher education

ESCP Impact Papers, 2025-37-EN

Conference Presentations

2024

TASCIOGLU, A.

Digital Nudging in Display Optimization for Product Listing Pages

POMS Conference

Conference Presentations

2024

TASCIOGLU, A.

Digital Nudging in Display Optimization for Product Listing Pages

European TOM Seminar Series

PhD / HDR Dissertation

2024

TASCIOGLU, A

Digital Nudging for Online Product Listing Pages

Koc University

Conference Presentations

2023

TASCIOGLU, A.

Digital Nudging in Display Optimization for Online Product Listing Pages

POMS Conference

Conference Presentations

2023

TASCIOGLU, A.

Digital Nudging in Display Optimization for Online Product Listing Pages

INFORMS Conference