I was born in Canakkale, Turkey on March 15th, 1977. After completing my elementary and secondary school education in Canakkale, I went to Istanbul, where I started high school at Istanbul Ataturk Science High School. Science High Schools accept their students based on a nationwide entrance exam and provide an intense curriculum focusing on math, physics, chemistry, and biology. At the end of my third year, I entered the nationwide university entrance exam and became the 117th among 1 million students according to the math score. Then, I received a merit-based full four-year scholarship from the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department in Bilkent University, which is one of the best universities in Turkey. I received my Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.). and Master of Science (M.S.) degrees with high honor from the Electrical and Electronics Engineering department and came to the United States to continue my graduate education. I received the PhD degree in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, where I worked as a Graduate Research Assistant under the supervision of Dr. Yucel Altunbasak in the Multimedia Computing and Communications Lab (MCCL). Currently, I am a post-doctoral fellow in Genome Sciences Department of the University of Washington, Seattle, WA. I work under the supervision of Dr. William Stafford Noble in the Noble Research lab. My research interests include bioinformatics, computational biology, protein secondary structure prediction, image analysis of C.elegans embryos, pattern recognition and machine learning.

My personal hobbies are reading, sightseeing, and being with friends. I am married to Ayten, who is from Mersin, Turkey.

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