about me

In Fall 2025, I will be joining the Kempner Institute at Harvard University as a research fellow. Please feel free to reach out if you'd like to collaborate or learn more about my work.

I recently defended my Ph.D. in Robotics at EPFL, where I was advised by EPFL, Switzerland, advised by Pavan Ramdya and Auke Ijspeert. My research lies at the interface of systems neuroscience and artificial intelligence. I primarily focus on understanding the underlying mechanisms of motor coordination in Drosophila using behavior, physics-based simulations and neural networks. My long-term goal is to leverage biological insights from animals to develop better artificial systems. My early Ph.D. was supported by a Swiss Government Excellence Ph.D. Fellowship, and a Google Ph.D. Fellowship.

Previously, I received my B.S. in Electrical & Electronics Engineering with a double major in Mathematics from Boğaziçi University, Turkey where I worked on robot localization at Işıl Bozma's Intelligent Systems Laboratory.