Dr. Ayça Altıntığ currently is Associate Professor of Clinical Finance at Marshall School of Business, at the University of Southern California. She also has wide career experience teaching corporate finance and international finance as Assistant Professor of Finance at Drucker School of Management and earlier as Assistant Professor of Finance at Claremont University in California.

Outside of academia, Ayça has an extensive history of volunteering for various Turkish American Associations. She has served on the board of non-profits including two years as the west coast vice president of the Assembly of Turkish Americans Association (ATAA) and as the president of the Orange County Turkish American Association (OCTAA).

Ayça has an undergraduate degree from Bogazici University in Istanbul and graduate and doctoral degrees from Louisiana State University. Ayça lives in Southern California.