2022 - Present
University of Southern California
PhD in Computer Science
Advisor: Salman Avestimehr, Sai Praneeth Karimireddy
2017 - 2022
Bilkent University
BSc in Computer Science
2022 - Present
Research Assistant
University of Southern California
Working on trustworthy LLMs, continual learning, and federated learning
2025
Applied Scientist Intern
AWS Bedrock
RL-based Foundational Model Confidence Calibration for Decision Making
2020 - 2022
Research Engineer
Hyperbee AI
Worked on NN compression (focusing on quantization) and OOD detection for vision tasks
2021
Research Intern
University of California, San Diego
Worked on NN compression and adversarial attacks for hyperdimensional computing
Teaching Assistant - Spring 2025
DSCI 552 Machine Learning for Data Science
University of Southern California
Instructor: Mohammad Reza Rajati
Teaching Assistant - Fall 2024
CSCI 566 Deep Learning and Its Applications
University of Southern California
Instructor: Yan Liu
Teaching Assistant - Spring 2024
CSCI 567 Machine Learning
University of Southern California
Instructor: Vatsal Sharan
2025
USC - Capital One Center for Responsible AI and Decision Making in Finance (CREDIF)
Capital One Fellowship
2025
USC - Amazon Center on Secure & Trusted Machine Learning
Amazon ML Fellowship (declined)
2023
USC-Amazon Research Center
Best Poster Award