Ali Yalcin, is an Associate Professor of Industrial and Management Systems in the College of Engineering at the University of South Florida. He is the co-founder of Collaborative for Research & Education in Aging and Technology. Previously he was part of the leadership team who founded the Patel College of Global Sustainability at USF.

His research interests include Data Analytics, Ambient Intelligence, Internet of Things, Time-series Data Mining and Analytics Applications in Healthcare. His research has been funded by federal and state agencies, and private industry.

He has taught courses in the areas of systems modeling, analysis and simulation, information systems, predictive analytics and dynamic systems. He also co-authored, Design of Industrial Information Systems, by Elsevier named the Joint Publishers textbook of the year.