About me

I recently received my MSc. degree in Artificial Intelligence with summa cum laude at Ozyegin University, where I worked  Interactive Intelligence Systems Lab (IISL) since my junior year and advised by Dr. Reyhan Aydogan. I have been actively engaging in research projects about Multi-Agent Systems, Human-Robot/Agent Interaction, Affective Computing, and Multi-Agent Path Finding for six years. Besides, I was responsible for managing laboratory operations and mentoring new graduate members and undergraduate students. These contributions helped me to be awarded the IEEE CS Richard Merwin Student Scholarship and Outstanding Research Assistant Award at Ozyegin University. 

I had several research experiences in interactive intelligence systems and robotics. I was a research intern at the the Interactive Intelligence Group at TU Delft, working on a comprehensive human-agent interaction framework that facilitates various communication channels (e.g., speech, facial expression, and gestures) tailored for social humanoid robots to enhance collective decision-making under Prof. Catholijn Jonker in Summer, 2022. I worked on a personalized strategy that utilized continual learning for recognizing participants' facial expressions with the Pepper robot to investigate the impact of emotion-aware strategies in human-robot negotiations as a research intern with Prof. Hatice Gunes at the Affective Intelligence and Robotics Lab at the University of Cambridge during the winter term of 2022

In the summer internship 2021, I developed a supply chain manager agent with Prof. Amy Greenwald at Brown University that won the runner-up prize in two tracks of the Supply-Chain Management League at IJCAI 2021. Before that, My teammate and I won IBM Watson & RPI's Human Multi-Agent Immersive Negotiation Challenge at IJCAI 2020. In my junior year (2018), I was selected as a research scholar for the REU program at the Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute of Oregon State University, where I developed a path optimizer for 3D printing, advised by Dr. Dogan Yirmibesoglu.

Teaching Assistantship

Ozyegin University:

• CS 551: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence - (Spring 2021, 2022 & 2023)
• SEC 405: Artificial Intelligence: Impact on Humanity, Society, and Business - (Spring 2021 & 2023)
• CS 202: Database Management Systems - (Spring 2022)
• CS 103: Introduction to Computer Programming for Engineers - (Fall & Spring 2020)

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