My primary research area is software engineering. My broad research interest is on programmer productivity. I develop practical techniques and tools to help programmers create cheaper, faster, and more reliable software systems.
Please check the SUSOFT website for my current research interests. SUSOFT is an abbreviation for the Software Engineering Research Group at Sabanci University.
I consider myself to be an experimentalist. I realize my research ideas in incremental prototypes, conduct feasibility studies to evaluate the underlying assumptions and the basic hypotheses, and use the results of these studies to iteratively improve the ideas. Furthermore, I enjoy in-depth analysis of empirical results. I strongly believe that unexpected results often present opportunities for further and better research. One common theme in my research is that I base my solution approaches on mathematically sound objects which help me reason about the solutions.
Education
Ph.D. Computer Science, December 2005
University of Maryland College Park, MD
M.S. Computer Science, May 2002
University of Maryland College Park, MD
M.S. Computer Engineering and Information Science, July 1999
Bilkent University Ankara, Turkey
B.S. Computer Engineering and Information Science, June 1997
Bilkent University Ankara, Turkey
Work Experience
Associate Professor, May 2018 - present
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Sabanci University
Istanbul, TURKEY
Post Doctoral Researcher, October 2005 - July 2008
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Hawthorne, NY, USA
Software Engineer, June 2001 - January 2002
Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications
Clarksville, MD, USA
Summer Researcher, May 2000 - August 2000
NEC USA
San Jose, CA, USA
Teaching
CS 201 Introduction to Computing
CS 300 Data Structures.
CS 308 Software Engineering
CS 439/539 Software Verification & Validation
CS 551 Graduate Seminar I
CS 552 Graduate Seminar II
CS 560 Automated Debugging
CS 680 Selected Topics in Computer Science I
