Quinnipiac University
Tan Gurpinar

Assistant Professor of Business Analytics & Info Systems

Dr. Gürpinar is an Assistant Professor of Business Analytics & Information Systems at Quinnipiac University's School of Business, with a focus on the impact of emerging technologies, particularly blockchain and distributed ledger technologies, on organizations, people, and society. He also serves as a Faculty Fellow in Residence and Advisor to the Living Learning Experience Leadership Council at Quinnipiac University, where he mentors students and fosters leadership development within the campus community.

Dr. Gürpinar holds an affiliation with the Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics, Dortmund, Germany, where blockchain research findings are transferred into practice to empower decentralized data ecosystems in various industries. He is an Editorial Board Member at the Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Journal and a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the International Association of Trusted Blockchain Applications.

Before his current role as an Assistant Professor, Dr. Gürpinar led the 360° Initiative at Blockchain Europe and the Blockchain Team at Dortmund University of Technology, where he co-founded a pioneering research group and industry meetup focused on distributed ledger technologies. His expertise lies in blockchain governance and in deploying interdisciplinary approaches to seamlessly integrate these solutions into enterprise networks.

Education

  • PHD, Technische Universitat Dortmund

Areas of Expertise

  • Technology & Innovation Management
  • Computer Information Systems
  • Supply Chain Management
  • International Management

Organization

  • Business Analytics and Information Systems

Office Location

  • Lender School of Business

Mail Drop

  • PO-GRV

Selected Publications

Peer Reviewed Proceedings

A framework for selecting and integrating blockchain devices into supply chain management

Gürpinar, T., Nguyen, T. T., Austerjost, M.

Scientific Track, Blockchain Autumn School Mittweida, Mittweida, Germany (2024)

Peer Reviewed Proceedings

How to identify and estimate cost factors of enterprise blockchain solutions

Nikelowski, L., Brüning, S., Gürpinar, T., Schwarzer, M., Tasler, T.

Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Conference, Tenerife, Spain (2024)

Peer Reviewed Proceedings

Towards the Integration of Distributed Ledger Technologies in Supply Chain Management – Guidelines from the Automotive Industry

Gürpinar, T., Schulte, A. T., Henke, M.

Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Conference, Tenerife, Spain (2024)

Peer Reviewed Proceedings

Integrating blockchain technology in supply chain management - a process model with evidence from current implementation projects

Gürpinar, T., Ashraf, R., Henke, M.

57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii, US (2024)

Peer Reviewed Proceedings

Introduction to the Minitrack on Federated Industrial Platform Ecosystems: Technologies, Business Models, and Data-Driven Artifacts

Van der Valk, H., Duparc, E., Grosse, N., Gürpinar, T.

57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii, US (2024)

AI and Blockchain Convergence

De La Roche, M., Voloder, E., Schoenberger, D., Kajtazi, L., Giudici, P., Wu, K., Dell’Accio, D., Buderis, F., Khattak, J., Gürpinar, T.

International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications Report (2024)

Exploring Global Trends in Industrial Blockchain Projects

Becker, S., Rajan, I.B., von Alten, C., Arribas, I., Avram, N., Bausch, A., Beckert, M., Collett, D., Dahlborn, A., Dunayev, I., Engel, S., Faraldi, M., Gürpinar, T., et al.

International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications Report (2024)

Exploring the Future of the Metaverse Through “A Holistic Introduction of Virtual Worlds for Policy Makers”

Karamitsos, I., User, E., Al-Qadi, S., Attias, S., Belling, A., Grant, J., Gürpinar, T., et al.

International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications Report (2024)

Report on Trends, Changes, and Challenges for the Supply Chain of the Future

Gürpinar, T., Saorski, N., Küpeli, O., Kamphues, J., Fornasiero, R., Zangiacomi, A, Betto, F., Martinez de Yuso, A., Zimmermann, R., Pereira, P., Senna, P., Freije, I., De la Calle, A.

SSRN (2024)

Peer Reviewed Presentations

A Review of Blockchain Technology Programs in Higher Education

Gürpinar, T., Jones, K., Ceccucci, W.

Information Systems & Computing Academic Professionals, Baltimore, US (2024)

Peer Reviewed Presentations

Use of a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Chatbot in an Online R Programming Course

Lang, G., Gürpinar, T.

Information Systems & Computing Academic Professionals, Baltimore, US (2024)

Peer Reviewed Presentations

The Convergence of Blockchain & AI - How to Utilize Decentralized Federated Learning for a More Equitable World

Gürpinar, T.

Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Conference, Tenerife, Spain (2024)

Blockchain & Cryptocurrency (B2C) Journal

Gürpinar, T.

(2024)

Frontiers in Blockchain Journal

Gürpinar, T.

(2024)

Peer Reviewed Presentations

Towards the Integration of Distributed Ledger Technologies in Supply Chain Management

Gürpinar, T.

The Business of Blockchain Technology Conference, Miami, US (2024)

Panelist - Centering the Human: New technologies as facilitators of peace and human rights, at World Peace Summit

Gürpinar, T.

(2024)

Panelist - International Faculty Panel and Networking, at Quinnipiac University

Gürpinar, Tan

(2024)

CIS371 Introduction to Blockchain Technology in Business

Tan Gürpinar

Quinnipiac University (2024)

Peer Reviewed Journal

An Interdisciplinary Survey on Information Flows in Supply Chains

Pennekamp, J., Matzutt, R., Klinkmüller, C., Bader, L., Serror, M., Wagner, E., Malik, S., Linnartz, M., Rahn, J., Gürpinar, T., Kanhere, S. S., Stich, V., Wehrle, K.

56 (2) ACM Computing Surveys 1-38 February 2024 (2024)

Peer Reviewed Journal

Design of a blockchain technology competence model for interdisciplinary curricula development

Fomin, V., Gürpinar, T., Baleviciene, D.

99 Information and Media 41-62 February 2024 (2024)

Peer Reviewed Journal

Taxonomy for blockchain-based business models in enterprise networks

Grünewald, A., Gürpinar, T., Culotta, C., Guderian, A.

22 Information Systems and e-Business Management 633–665 July 2024 (2024)

Peer Reviewed Journal

Blockchain-Geschäftsmodelle - Ein Leitfaden zur Entwicklung Blockchain-basierter Geschäftsmodelle

Alexander Grünewald; Maik Hausmann; Tan Gürpinar; Tobias Wappner; Nils Saorski

5 (1) Blockchain Navigator 1-56 August (2023)

Peer Reviewed Journal

A Taxonomy for the Formation of Enterprise Blockchain Consortia

Dominik Bons; Patrick Keitzl; Holger Schulz; Patrick Stuckmann-Blumenstein; Tan Gürpinar; Sebastian Brüning

1 (1) Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Journal 18-35 September (2023)

Peer Reviewed Proceedings

Towards a definition of the industrial metaverse applied in context of the blockchain and web3 ecosystem

Orhan Küpeli; Tan Gürpinar

Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Conference, Corfu, Greece (2023)

Peer Reviewed Presentations

The Rise of the Industrial Metaverse

Tan Gürpinar

Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Conference, Corfu, Greece (2023)

Peer Reviewed Presentations

The Right Time for Enterprise Blockchains

Tan Gürpinar

Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Conference, Corfu, Greece (2023)

BAN671 Fundamentals of Blockchain Technology

Tan Gürpinar

Quinnipiac University (2023)

Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (B2C) Journal

Tan Gürpinar

(2023)

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