Work Experience
Honors &
Awards
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Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship, 2023
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Best reviewer award, ICDE 2023 Industry and Applications Track
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Swiss National Science Foundation Early Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship, 2020
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Teaching Assistant award by IC School, EPFL, 2019
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Best of DaMoN@SIGMOD, 2017
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ACM SIGMOD Student Research Competition, Winner, 2017
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Microsoft Research PhD scholarship, 2017
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Doctoral degree fellowship by IC School, EPFL, 2014
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Master’s degree fellowship by Sci. and Tech. Research Council, 2012 – 2013
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Ranked 1st in BSc program, GPA: 3.94/4.00, 2011
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Bachelor’s degree fellowship by the Credits and Housing Board, 2006 – 2011
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Bachelor’s degree fellowship by METU Development Foundation, 2006 – 2011
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Ranked 29th among ~1.5 million students in the nation-wide university entrance exam, 2006
Professional
Experience
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2021 - now: Postdoctoral Researcher
Data Systems (DAS) Laboratory
Harvard University
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2014 - 2021: Research and Teaching Assistant
Data-Intensive Applications and Systems (DIAS) Laboratory
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
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06 - 08/2017: Research Intern
Data Management, Exploration and Mining (DMX) Group
Microsoft Research (MSR), Redmond
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2011 - 2013: Research and Teaching Assistant
Middle East Technical University (METU)
Education
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2014 - 2021: Ph.D. in Computer Science at EPFL, Switzerland
Thesis: Micro-architectural Analysis of Database Workloads
Advisor: Prof. Anastasia Ailamaki
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2011 - 2013: M.Sc. in Computer Engineering at METU, Turkey
Thesis: Batch-mode Reinforcement Learning for Controlling Gene
Regulatory Networks
Advisor: Prof. Faruk Polat
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2006 - 2011: B.Sc. in Computer Engineering at METU, Turkey
Graduation Rank: 1/103, GPA: 3.94/4.00