Experience

Cisco Foundation AI · Research Intern
San Francisco, CA · Mar 2025 – present
→ Foundation-model training: pretraining, instruction tuning, and reasoning.

Robust Intelligence (acquired by Cisco) · Research Intern
San Francisco, CA · Sep 2024 – Mar 2025
→ LLM robustness and AI safety: prompt-injection firewall development and evaluation.

Google Research · Research Intern
New York, NY · May 2024 – Sep 2024
→ OOD evaluation and length generalization in autoregressive LMs.
Hosts: Peilin Zhong, Zhipeng Jia, Vahab Mirrokni

Turk Telekom · Research Ops Specialist
Ankara, Turkey · May 2022 – Jul 2023
→ RL for 5G/6G wireless control and resource allocation.

DataBoss Inc. · Research Scientist
Ankara, Turkey · Sep 2020 – Jun 2021
→ Deep RL for fully autonomous terrain vehicles.

Fraunhofer IIS · Intern Engineer
Nuremberg, Germany · Jun 2019 – Sep 2019
→ 5G Bavaria Project — indoor localization via 5G.

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Yale University · Spring-Fall 2025
→ CPSC 1100: Python Programming for Humanities and Social Sciences
→ S&DS 617: Advances in Large Language Models: Theory and Applications

Bilkent University · 2020–2023
→ CS 115: Introduction to Programming in Python
→ EEE 212: Microprocessors
→ EEE 211: Analog Electronics

Program Committee Member

NeurIPS Workshop on Reliable Machine Learning · 2025

Reviewer

ICLR · NeurIPS · ICML · TMLR · ACL · Machine Learning · IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters