Tayfun "Typhoon" Keskin is an Assistant Professor of Business at UW Bothell and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business. He worked in P&G as a process engineer after receiving his Electrical and Electronics Engineering degree from the Bogazici (Bosphorus) University in Turkey. Then, he received an MBA degree at Sabanci University, Istanbul. He also worked for other multinational companies such as Oracle and Kraft Foods prior to his Ph.D.

Keskin's research and teaching interests include collaborative information technologies, behavioral modeling and simulation, and the strategic management of information systems. He is particularly interested in developing a quantitative "role of information systems" theory and has published in European Journal of Operational Research and Informs Journal on Computing.