about me

I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Robotics at 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 in part supported by a Swiss Government Excellence Ph.D. Fellowship, and it is now funded by 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.