I’ve been fortunate to engage in service activities that have greatly contributed to my personal and professional development. In both academia and industry, I’ve aimed to positively impact and contribute to the community.

Work Experience⌗

Cisco Foundation AI · Research Intern
San Francisco, CA · Mar 2025 – Aug 2025
→ 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 · Jun 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.

Academic Service⌗

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 · Machine Learning · ICASSP · IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters · ACM/IEEE HRI · IEEE RO-MAN