Program Committee Service and Citations
Are researchers cited differently around the years they serve on a program committee?
Hi! I’m curious about analytics, information visualization, and human behavior.
I’m currently doing my MSc in MTE at EPFL, with a Data Science minor and an EPFL Excellence Fellowship.
I have 5 years of experience in analytics, working on search at Yandex, recommendation systems at Afiniti, and inventory and production planning at Brisa.
In my free time, I train for HYROX and enjoy reading about causal inference and human behavior.
Projects
Tire Inventory & Production Planning
Which tires should we prioritize for production, and how much inventory should we hold?
How Indie YouTubers Became Industry Players
How did YouTube creators grow and become more professional over time?
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A/B Testing Under Uncertainty
Did the model improve, or could the difference be due to chance?
Delay Prediction Under Uncertainty
How late could my bus or train be, and how likely is each delay?
Experience
EPFL Space Center
Teaching Assistant New Space Economy MOOC
March 2026 – PresentRemote
- Analyzed ~4,000 learner profiles and reviewed feedback to identify pain points.
- Reviewed lecture content for relevance in 2026 and prioritized outdated material for updates.
- Surveyed space-sector experts to help plan the next version of the course.
Yandex Search Turkey
Data Scientist
Sep 2024 – Sep 2025Remote
- Designed crowdsourced evaluations to calculate offline search quality metrics.
- Built dashboards to help product managers identify weaknesses in search quality.
- Improved reviewer workflows and quality checks, reducing evaluation turnaround from ~10 to 3 days.
Afiniti, Research & Development
Data Scientist
Sep 2022 – Sep 2024Hybrid
- Built product recommendation systems for call-center agents using customer, call, product, and agent data.
- Measured a 2% sales revenue uplift against a randomized baseline during live calls.
- Used bootstrapping to quantify uncertainty around revenue uplift and assess statistical significance.
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Brisa, Product Supply Planning
Data Scientist
Sep 2020 – Sep 2022Remote
- Developed a system to prioritize products for inventory and production planning through a master’s thesis collaboration between Sabancı University and Brisa.
- Counterfactual simulations estimated a 6% reduction in finished goods inventory versus the existing method.
- Thesis: A Novel Finished-Goods Inventory Management Process for a Tire Manufacturer, supervised by Murat Kaya.
Unilever
Research Project in Collaboration with Sabancı University
Sep 2018 – Aug 2020Istanbul, Turkey (On-site)
- Developed a product segmentation framework to guide inventory and forecasting decisions.
- Recommended automated, human-led, or hybrid forecasting methods for each product.
Philip Morris SA
Summer Intern, Sales and Analytics
2018Istanbul, Turkey (On-site)
- Built sales forecasting models and real-time dashboards to support sales planning. Project report (PDF)
Sabancı University
Teaching Assistant
Sep 2016 – Sep 2022Istanbul, Turkey (On-site)
- Led problem-solving sessions, supported Python exercises, prepared materials, and graded assessments for quantitative courses including Operations Research, Decision Analysis, Simulation, and Stochastic Models.
- Supported Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence teaching for high school students.
Education
EPFL
MSc in Management, Technology and Entrepreneurship, Data Science minor
Sep 2025 – PresentLausanne, Switzerland
Master Excellence Fellowship (CHF 20,000 per year, merit-based, top ~1% of applicants).
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Sabancı University
MSc in Industrial Engineering, GPA 3.95 / 4.00
Sep 2020 – Sep 2022Istanbul, Turkey
Full scholarship.
Thesis: A Novel Finished-Goods Inventory Management Process for a Tire Manufacturer, supervised by Assist. Prof. Dr. Murat Kaya.
Sabancı University
BSc in Industrial Engineering, GPA 3.93 / 4.00
Sep 2016 – Jan 2020Istanbul, Turkey
Ranked 1st in class, full scholarship.