Academic Interests

Brief Biography

I received my B.Sc. (1993) and M.Sc. (1995) in Computer Engineering, Bogazici University, Turkey and my Ph.D. (2004), Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Intelligent Autonomous Systems Lab. at University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and the Signal Processing and Communications Lab., Dept. of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK. Since October 2008, I am an assistant professor at Bogazici University, Dept. of Computer Engineering..

News and Links



David Barber, Silvia Chiappa and I are editing a book on Inference and Learning in Dynamic Models, to be published by the Cambridge University Press

In Fall 2009, I offer two graduate courses:

CMPE 58N, Monte Carlo methods for data analysis and scientific computing
Course description (pdf)

CMPE 58K, Bayesian Statistics and Machine Learning
Topics in Bayesian machine learning, with an emphasis on graphical models
Course description (pdf)