Research Intern, Symantec Corporation, Summer 2018 Symantec Research Labs (SRL), Culver City, CA
Research Intern, Nissan Research Center Silicon Valley, Summer 2017 Connected Vehicle Services Team, Sunnyvale, CA
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-2018 Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018 semesters
Graduate Research Assistant, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-2020 Distributed Data Intensive Systems Lab (DiSL)
Selected Awards and Scholarships
CAREER Grant from TUBITAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey), 2021
Best Paper Award, “LDP-Fed: Federated learning with local differential privacy” 2020 ACM International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking (EdgeSys 2020)
Travel Grants and Registration Awards
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2018)
Southern Data Science Conference (SDSC 2018)
Symantec Research Labs Graduate Fellowship Finalist, 2018
Sabanci University Merit Scholarship, 2009-2010 (initially awarded for four years, but I dropped this scholarship after winning the above two upgraded scholarships)
Academic Services (incomplete list)
Information Director of ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)
Grant Reviewer for the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)
Conference & Workshop Organization:
Annual Data Privacy in Technology (ADaPT) Workshop, co-chair
Invited Reviewer for Journals:
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC)
IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (TAI)