Academic Experience:
2020 -
Professor, Mathematics and
Statistics, Queen's University
2016
-
Adjunct Professor, Department of
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent
University
2013
- 2020 Associate Professor, Mathematics and
Statistics,
Queen's University
2007 - 2013
Assistant Professor, Mathematics and
Statistics,
Queen's University
Sept. 2006 - Aug. 2007 Post-Doctoral
Researcher, Yale
University, New Haven, CT (Advisor: Prof. Sekhar
Tatikonda)
Visiting Associate Professor, University of Passau, May 2016
(intensive course on 'Control of Stochastic Systems')
Visiting Associate
Professor, Bilkent University, January 2014-Summer 2014 (on
sabbatical leave).
Visiting Assistant Professor, KTH-Sweden, May 2012 (intensive
summer course on 'Stochastic Networked Control Systems').
Education:
2003 - 2006 PhD in
Electrical and Computer Engineering (at Coordinated Science
Laboratory)
University
of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (Advisor: Prof. Tamer
Basar)
2001 - 2003 MS in Electrical
and Computer Engineering (at Coordinated Science Laboratory)
University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign (Advisor: Prof. Tamer
Basar)
1997 - 2001 BS in Electrical Engineering, Bilkent
University, Ankara
Summer 2004
Research Internship at Xerox PARC, 2004 (hosts. Dr. Haitham
Hindi and Dr. Lara Crawford)
Awards/Honors:
2013
CAIMS/PIMS
Early Career Award in Applied Mathematics (lecture / citation)
2013 IEEE
Transactions on Automatic Control Outstanding Reviewer
2018 NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement Award
2018 IEEE
Conference on Decision and Control Outstanding Student
Paper Award (for paper co-authored with student Ali
D. Kara).
2021 University of Illinois CSL Visitors Scholar,
Visitors Scholar Lecture
2023 CSS Networks and Communication Systems TC
Outstanding Student Paper Prize (for paper
co-authored with B. Yongacoglu and G. Arslan)