General
I have graduated from Bilkent University in 2004 with bachelor of science (B.S.) in Computer Science. Since then, I've been studying at Brown University. I have received my master of science (M.Sc.) degree officially in 2007 with 4.0 average. My unofficial transcript from Bilkent University can be found here. Additionally, my course work at Brown University is listed here. My internship for summer 2007 was at Cisco Systems, in the Internet Key Exchange group, under the supervision of Scott Fanning and Paulina Tran. My internship in summer 2009 was at Microsoft Research eXtreme Computing Group, in the Cryptography Incubation Group, under the supervision of Tolga Acar and Mira Belenkiy.
PhD
I'm currently working with Anna Lysyanskaya on Electronic Cash (e-cash) and its applications on fair exchange, contracts, and outsourcing. As a Brownie Points project member, I'm also supervising development of an e-cash crypto library, which will hopefully available freely soon. Please see my cryptography and security page for more details. My research covers the intersection of Cryptography and Security, Game Theory and Mechanism Design, and Peer-to-Peer Networks.
MS
My master's project was with Uğur Çetintemel on Sensor Networks. The project focused on optimization issues which arise when multiple heterogeneous sensors are used in a multi-task, multi-user environment.
BS
My senior project "Kaşif" was a geographic information systems (GIS) project developed under the supervision of Cevdet Aykanat. Our team (myself, Deniz Akdur, and Ferit Akova) won the “Best Senior Project” award with that project.
We also prepared a prototype for an European Union (EU) funding application on natural language processing (NLP) during summer 2003, working under supervision of Kemal Oflazer, at Sabancı University.