BA & BS, Boğaziçi University, 1998; MA, New York University, 2001; Ph.D., 2004 Joined Columbia Business School faculty in 2004.

Teaching and research interests: Professor Çelen teaches the core course Managerial Economics. His main research focus is on game theory, microeconomic theory, and experimental economics. In his recent work he provides an information-based explanation for uniform of social behavior, which is often refereed to as herd behavior or information cascades. He also works on positive and normative implications of different interest arbitration procedures. Çelen is the winner of the Crowell Memorial Prize Paper Competition and research associate at the C.E.S.S.

总体上看，哥大比较注重传统研究领域的教育，特别是一些数理经济学和一般均衡方面的学者非常厉害。还有一些非常厉害的政治经济学的学者。