I graduated summa cum laude with Honors from Syracuse University in 1999. I received my MS in 2001 and PhD in 2006, both from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I joined the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in 2006. As of Jan 2009, I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering at Koc University, Istanbul.

I lead the Intelligent User Interfaces Lab at Koç, and my main research goal is enabling people to interact with computers in a more natural fashion by combining techniques from machine learning, computer vision, computer graphics and human-computer interaction.  My research is funded by institutions including the European Research Council, Turkish National Science Foundation, Turkish Academy of Sciences, Turkish Ministry of Science & Technology, and corporate sponsors. Check out the IUI Lab for open positions, and more details on ongoing projects.