After graduating from the Industrial Engineering Department of METU in 2002, he received his M.S in 2003 and Ph.D. in 2006 from University of California, Berkeley, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. He also has an M.A. degree in Statistics from the same university. Onur Kaya's research interests include stochastic models of production and inventory systems, scheduling, management of supply chain systems and gaming and contracts in supply chains.