Associate Professor
Michael Durham Professor in Creativity
Industrial & Systems Engineering
akcali@ufl.edu
Office: 303 Weil Hall
Phone: 352-294-7726
Fax: 352-392-3537
Ph.D., Purdue University, 2001
Elif Akçalı serves as the Michael Durham Professor of Creativity and associate professor of industrial and systems engineering at the University of Florida. She is an affiliate faculty member of the Florida Institute for Built Environment (FIBER) and the Engineering Innovation Institute (EII). She was in the inaugural class of UF Entrepreneurship Faculty Fellows in the Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Warrington College of Business Administration. She was UF 2013-2014 Creative Scholar-in-Residence in the School of Theater + Dance. Her research and teaching interests are inventory and supply chain systems, lean production systems, sustainability, and creativity.