[ The story so far ]

A chronologyof work & study.

Scroll through the years to see how I got here — from undergraduate studies to PhD research, with the projects and roles in between. When you’re ready, jump to the website proper at the bottom.

2014

[ BSc, Computer Engineering ]

Gazi University

Started undergraduate studies in Computer Engineering at Gazi University, Ankara.

2016

[ Intern engineer · team lead ]

Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI)

Led a 7-person intern team to build ECMS, a Java desktop application that became TAI's primary internal communications tool for over 25,000 employees, replacing the legacy system.

Around the same time, founded the Gazi University E-Sports Community.

2017

[ Intern engineer ]

Eşkom Bilgisayar San. Tic. A.Ş.

End-to-end web testing and documentation for an Electronic Document Management System using Java and Selenium. Played a critical role in the system's Turkish Standards Institute (TSE) certification.

2019

[ BSc graduation · long-term internship ]

Gazi University · Via Computer Systems

Graduated with a BSc in Computer Engineering — bachelor's thesis on Detecting Road Lines with Image Processing Techniques.

In parallel, a long-term internship at Via Computer Systems building ADITS / ESHIS, an Android app that locates smartwatches by Wi-Fi signal strength to assist emergency response — improved response efficiency by ~30%.

2020 — 2024

[ MSc, Computer Engineering ]

Gazi University

Master's thesis: Sentiment Analysis on Twitter Using Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Hybrid Models. Final GPA 3.97 / 4.0.

The thesis work led to a journal article on airline-domain sentiment analysis (Turkish Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science, 2023).

2021

[ Erasmus exchange ]

Università degli Studi di Palermo

One semester at the University of Palermo as part of the Erasmus programme.

2022 — present

[ Research assistant ]

Gazi University

Lab sessions for Introduction to AI, Object-Oriented Programming, Mobile Development, and Fuzzy Logic. Built and documented hands-on materials in Python, Java, Android Studio, and MATLAB.

Co-authored two journal articles in 2022 — one on Mamdani / Sugeno fuzzy inference for news popularity, and a systematic literature review on topic and community detection in social networks.

2024 — present

[ PhD candidate ]

Computer Engineering, Gazi University

Doctoral research focused on DeepFake detection and social-media popularity analysis, building on multimodal-fusion methods. Published FUSEPOP in Applied Sciences (April 2026) — a stacked-ensemble framework with mutual-information weighting that outperforms the state-of-the-art baseline by +18.13 pp on YouTube Shorts popularity prediction. Current GPA 3.97 / 4.0.