Experience
Resume
Official Resume pdf
2016 - Present Computer Scientist at NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
2014 - 2015 Post-doctoral researcher, Intelligent User Interfaces Lab, Koc University
Summer 2012 Intern at Inria, Saclay, France
Summer 2011 Intern at IBM Research, Almaden, CA
Summer 2010 Intern at Microsoft Research, Seattle, WA
2008 - 2009 Research Scientist, Allosphere Research Group
Education
Awards and Fellowships
2009-2013 PhD in Media Arts and Technology, UC Santa Barbara, CA
2008-2009 Research Scientist at Allosphere Group, UC Santa Barbara, CA
2006-2008 MS in Multimedia Engineering, Media Arts and Technology, UC Santa Barbara, CA
2004-2006 MS in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Sabanci University, Turkey
1999-2004 BA (honours) in Visual Communication Design, Sabanci University, Turkey
1996-1999 Gaziantep Fen Lisesi, Turkey
2014 - 2015 TUBITAK Research Fellow
2013 ACM CHI Best Paper Award
2011-2012 Deutsch Foundation Fellowship
2010-2011 Dean's Fellowship, UC Santa Barbara
2006-2008 Fulbright Scholarship
1999-2006 Full merit scholarship, Sabanci University