I am an AP of International Economics, based at Koç University's College of Administrative Sciences and Economics, where I lecture at the International Relations Department, and Computational Social Sciences graduate program. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University's  Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government, and a visiting scholar at the Mortara Center for International Studies of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. I hold a Ph.D. degree in International Relations/Political Science from the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID), an M.Sc. degree in International Relations from METU, and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Bilkent University. My research interests lie in the areas of international political economy, international development, international financial institutions, investment arbitration, computational social sciences including agent-based modeling, machine learning, natural language processing, and artificial intelligence (AI) governance. 

My research on AI usage in social sciences has been awarded the EU's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship (click for the CORDIS page of the project), as well as the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey’s International Fellowship for Outstanding Researchers. In October 2019, I founded the MA-Computational Social Sciences Lab (MA-CSSL), which is an interdisciplinary research laboratory bringing together researchers from multiple disciplines including economics, computer science, political science & international relations.

My work has been published in internationally recognized peer-reviewed journals such as Economics & Politics, International Interactions, Journal of International Dispute Settlement, IEEE Access, among others.