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Biography
I am an assistant professor at the University of Birmingham. I am with the Socio-Technical Systems group of the School of Computer Science.
My research interests are in the areas of machine learning (ML), generative artificial intelligence (AI), human-centred computing, distributed systems, wireless communications, networks, and information theory.
My current research focus is on reliable and explainable large language models (LLMs), privacy-preserving ML, responsible data economics and valuation for collaborative ML, timely information exchange in distributed systems, and semantics of information.
In my research, I utilize tools and techniques from optimization, machine learning, statistics, applied cryptography, and information and coding theories.
Previously, I was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Southern California (USC), working with Salman Avestimehr. I received my Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland (UMD), College Park, MD, USA in 2021 under the supervision of Sennur Ulukus.
During my doctoral studies, I worked on timely information delivery in large networks, distributed computation and machine learning. Prior to joining UMD, I received my B.S. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University, Turkey in 2016.
I have been fortunate to collaborate with Deniz Gunduz (Imperial College London), Songze Li (Southeast University), Hessam Mahdavifar (Northeastern University), Yupeng Zhang (UIUC), and Alkan Soysal (Virginia Tech) during my doctoral and postdoctoral studies.
My CV can be found here, last updated on October 2024.
Education
Awards and Honors
CTTC Andrea Goldsmith Young Scholars Award, IEEE Communications Society, Apr 2024.
George Harhalakis Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Institute of Systems Research, University of Maryland, Sep 2021.
Best Student Paper Award - First Place, IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, Sep 2021.
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) Student Grant, Awarded by NSF, May 2021.
Best Student Paper Award - Second Place, 54th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Nov 2020.
Future Faculty Program Fellowship, University of Maryland, Jan 2020 - Dec 2021.
Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Grant, University of Maryland, Dec 2019.
Best Student Paper Award - Finalist, 53rd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Nov 2019.
Clark School of Engineering Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, University of Maryland, Aug 2016 to Aug 2017.
Research Excellence Award, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, May 2016.
Service
Organizing Committee Member
Technical Committee Member
Technical Reviewer (Journals)
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
IEEE Transactions on Communications
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
IEEE Access
IEEE Communications Letters
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)
IEEE JSAC Series on Machine Learning for Communications and Networks
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Journal of Communications and Networks
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory
IEEE JSAC Series on Machine Learning for Communications and Networks
Computer Networks and Communications
Technical Reviewer (Conferences)
ICLR 2024 Workshop on Secure and Trustworthy Large Language Models
NeurIPS 2023 & 2024 Datasets and Benchmarks
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)
IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW)
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM)
IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC)
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