Service

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.

Academic Duties⌗

Reviewer⌗

Teaching Assistant⌗

Institution: Yale University
Location: New Haven, CT
Time period: Spring 2025
• S&DS 617: Advances in Large Language Models: Theory and Applications
Institution: Bilkent University
Location: Ankara, Turkey
Time period: 2020 - 2023
• CS 115: Introduction to Programming in Python
• EEE 212: Microprocessors
• EEE 211: Analog Electronics

Work Experience⌗

Institution: Cisco
Role: Research Intern
Project: Training foundation models on cybersecurity. Focused on interpretability and model analysis for alignment. Member of the Foundation AI team.
Time period: Mar 2025 - present
Institution: Robust Intelligence (acquired by Cisco)
Role: Research Intern
Project: Built frameworks to improve LLM robustness against adversarial attacks
Time period: Sep 2025 - Mar 2025
Institution: Google
Role: Research Intern
Project: Worked on long-context handling and out-of-distribution generalization in LLMs. Member of the Systems Research Group (SRG)
Time period: May 2024 - Sep 2024
Hosts: Peilin Zhong, Zhipeng Jia, and Vahab Mirrokni
Institution: Turk Telekom
Location: Ankara, Turkey
Role: Research Ops Specialist
Project: Researched RL for reconfigurable intelligent surfaces in 5G/6G wireless systems
Time period: May 2022 - Jul 2023
Institution: DataBoss Inc.
Location: Ankara, Turkey
Role: Research Scientist
Project: Worked on autonomy projects, developing deep RL for fully autonomous terrain vehicles
Time period: Sep 2020 - Jun 2021
Institution: Fraunhofer IIS
Location: Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
Role: Intern Engineer
Project: 55G Bavaria Project – indoor localization via 5G
Time period: Jun 2019 - Sep 2019