EDUCATION

• Ph.D. (in progress) in Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, (2006-). (GPA:4:00/4:00)
• M.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering, Koc University (KU), Istanbul, Turkey, (2004-2006). (GPA:4:00/4:00)
• B.S. in Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey, (2000-2004). (GPA:3.74/4:00)
• High School Diploma, Izmir Science High School, Izmir, Turkey, (1997-2000).

EXPERIENCE

• Research&Teaching Assistant, Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Koc University (KU), Istanbul, Turkey, (2004-2006).
• Project Leader: “Combined Gesture-Speech Analysis” Project - The SIMILAR NoE Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces, Mons, Belgium
• Intern, Motorola GmbH, Berlin, Germany (Aug-Sep'03).
• Intern, TUBITAK Bilten, Ankara, Turkey, (July-Aug'03).
• Intern, Unimedya TurkNet, Izmir, Turkey, (June-July'02).

HONORS

• Second Prize Winner in ICASSP'07 Student Paper Contest
• Bio-Image Fellowship, Center for Bio-Image Informatics, University of California, Santa Barbara (2006)
• TUBITAK Graduate Fellowship, (2004-2006)
• SIMILAR Graduate Exchange Grant (Visiting Researcher to Polytechnic University of Barcelona)
• Vehbi Koc Scholarship (full graduate scholarship), Koc University, (2004-2006).
• High Honors' List (7 times), Honors' List (once), Electrical & Electronics Engineering, METU, (2000-2004).