Academic Experience:

2020 -             Professor,  Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's University     
2016 -             Adjunct Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University
2013 - 2020    Associate Professor,  Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's University     
2007 - 2013    Assistant Professor, 
Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's University     

Sept. 2006 - Aug. 2007    Post-Doctoral Researcher,
Yale University, New Haven, CT (Advisor: Prof. Sekhar Tatikonda)

Visiting Associate Professor, University of Passau, May 2016 (intensive course on 'Control of Stochastic Systems')
Visiting Associate Professor, Bilkent University, January 2014-Summer 2014 (on sabbatical leave).
Visiting Assistant Professor, KTH-Sweden, May 2012 (intensive summer course on 'Stochastic Networked Control Systems').

Education:
2003 - 2006  PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering (at Coordinated Science Laboratory)
                University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (Advisor: Prof. Tamer Basar)
2001 - 2003 MS in
Electrical and Computer Engineering (at Coordinated Science Laboratory)
                University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Advisor:
Prof. Tamer Basar)
1997 - 2001 BS in Electrical Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara
Summer 2004 Research Internship at Xerox PARC, 2004 (hosts. Dr. Haitham Hindi and Dr. Lara Crawford)

Awards/Honors:
2013 CAIMS/PIMS Early Career Award in Applied Mathematics (lecture / citation)
2013 IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control Outstanding Reviewer
2018 NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement Award

2018 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control Outstanding Student Paper Award (for paper co-authored with student Ali D. Kara).
2021 University of Illinois CSL Visitors Scholar, Visitors Scholar Lecture
2023 CSS Networks and Communication Systems TC Outstanding Student Paper Prize (for paper co-authored with B. Yongacoglu and G. Arslan)