Academic Experience:

July 2007 - Assistant Professor,  Mathematics and Statistics and Mathematics and Engineering, Queen's University                                     

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

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

1994 - 1997 Istanbul Ataturk Fen Lisesi (Istanbul Ataturk High School of Science), Istanbul (had to transfer to another school in the last two months) / Earlier: Diyarbakir Anadolu Lisesi

Industrial Summer Research:

Summer 2004 Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA (Project: Decentralized Control Coordination over Networks) (with Haitham Hindi and Lara Crawford)

Awards, Honors:

Queen's University Advisory Research Committee Grant Award
Ranked 11th in the Turkish University Placement Exam (OYS)
Full Undergraduate Scholarship from Bilkent University