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Ozkul is a supply chain expert who can discuss the role of technology in planning and logistics, how the growth of AI data centers is increasing demand for computer microchips, how regional conflicts affect the availability and cost of everyday goods and how stores keep shelves stocked with water, toilet paper and other essential items during events like hurricanes.

Ozkul directs USF's Supply Chain Innovation Lab, which brings industry and academic supply chain management experts together to work on research projects tackling some of the industry’s biggest challenges.

He is an affiliated faculty member with the USF Center for Urban Transportation Research with experience in funded research project management as principal investigator in the areas of operations management, supply chain and logistics modeling/optimization, logistics activity center location/site selection optimization and freight mobility and planning for national, state and locally funded research projects for both public and private entities. He is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Florida.