Erhan Çınlar (born May 28, 1941,[3] Divriği, Sivas-Turkey[2]) is a probabilist and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University.
He was the Norman J. Sollenberger Professor of the department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE) at Princeton University.
In 1965, he joined the department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences as an assistant professor at Northwestern University.
He then joined the department of Civil Engineering and Operations Research as a professor at Princeton University in 1985.
[6][7] Çinlar is the co-founder (along with Kai-lai Chung and Ronald Getoor) of the seminar on stochastic processes,[8] which is an annual conference on probability topics such as Markov processes, Brownian motion, superprocesses, stochastic analysis, and mathematical finance.