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Education
University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Sept. 2021 - Present
M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Dec. 2024
Advisor: Prof. Ramtin Pedarsani
Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, June 2021
B.Sc. in Mathematics, June 2021
GPA: 3.96/4.0
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Exchange Program, Jan. 2019 - May 2019
GPA: 4.0/4.0
Research Experience
Ramtin Pedarsani’s Research Group, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Graduate Student Researcher, Sept. 2021 - Present
Fairness in machine learning: developed Equal Improvability, a fairness metric designed for long-term fairness in dynamic decision-making processes such as college admissions and credit lending.
LLM inference optimization: developed and evaluated a method for improving LLM inference throughput by grouping requests with similar execution times.
Conformal prediction: exploring unsupervised calibration techniques for valid coverage without labeled calibration data.
Work Experience
Munich Re, CA, USA
Research Scientist Intern, June 2025 - Sept. 2025
Researched fair uncertainty quantification methods and proposed a method for counterfactual fairness of conformal prediction sets.
Eatron, Istanbul, Turkey
ADAS Software Engineer, Sept. 2020 - July 2021
Contributed to several projects for autonomous driving systems such as driver monitoring systems.
AugeLab, Istanbul, Turkey
Computer Vision Intern, Aug. 2020 - Sept. 2020
Worked on real-time object tracking using OpenCV and image processing algorithms.
Telemed MR Solutions, Istanbul, Turkey
Image Processing Intern, July 2019 - Nov. 2019
Developed a 3D MR image linear registration tool using Insight Toolkit.
Teaching Experience
University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Teaching Assistant, 2023 - Present
- ECE 130A Signal Analysis and Processing, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025, Winter 2026
- ECE 130B Signal Analysis and Processing, Spring 2023, Spring 2024
Honors and Service
- UC Regents Fellowship in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- UCSB Outstanding ECE TA Award
- Reviewer for NeurIPS, ICLR, FAccT, and IEEE Transactions on Networking
Technical Skills
- Python, C/C++, Matlab, LaTeX, Git
- PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow, pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn