I am an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Informatics, Middle East Technical University, where I conduct my research on developing optimal, safe and reliable AI systems. Previously, I was an assistant professor and faculty fellow at New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Zürich, Institute for Computational Linguistics. I completed my Ph.D. on neural sequence modeling for applications in machine translation at the University of Trento, and I was also a visiting post-graduate research student at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. In my master's degree in electrical engineering at the University of Leuven I developed analysis techniques with EEG for studying speech perception in the human brain. I am interested in a wide range of topics around self-supervised learning, representation theory, computational modeling of language, reasoning and the theory of mind. I am grateful that my research has been supported by research awards from Microsoft and Google. I am also a recipient of the 2025 TÜBİTAK 2232-A International Fellowship for Outstanding Researchers.

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