Education

• 2015 - 2019: PhD Candidate in Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands (Thesis). 
   

• 2012 - 2014: MS in Computer Science, the City College of the City University of New York, New York, USA.
   

• 2006 - 2010: BS in Statistics and Computer Science, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey.

Professional Experience

• Nov 2015 - Oct 2019: Researcher, FET-Open H2020 EU Phoenix Project, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
   

• Nov 2013 - Sep 2015: Researcher, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, USA.
   

• Jun 2013 - Aug 2013: Intern, IBM Zurich Research GmbH, Zurich, Switzerland

Talks

• June 15th, 2019: "Nature-inspired Artificial Intelligence" organized by FruitPunch AI, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven/the Netherlands.
   

• May 4th, 2019: "An introduction to AI and its implications to science, engineering and society", organized by Art + Technology Society, at Innovation Café Eindhoven, Eindhoven/the Netherlands (slides).

Teaching

• 2018/2019/2020 - Invited lecturer on Nature Inspired Search Algorithms , JADS - Eindhoven University of Technology

Reviewer

Applied Soft Computing, the Genetic and Evolutionary Conference, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computing, EvoStar

Other

• July 2018 - Organization committee member of the 2nd workshop on Exploration of Inaccessible Environments through Hardware/Software Co-evolution, Kyoto, GECCO 2018 Conference, Japan.
   

• April 2018 - EvoKnow Track Programme Committee Member, EvoStar 2018 Conference, Rome, Italy.
   

• April 2017 - EvoKnow Track Programme Committee Member, EvoStar 2017 Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.