I am an assistant professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Department of Statistics. At UIUC, I am also an affiliate assistant professor at the Department of Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering and an affiliate at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology. Before joining UIUC, I was a term assistant professor at Columbia University, Department of Statistics. I completed my Ph.D. in Operations Research & Financial Engineering at Princeton University in 2022 where I was the recipient of School of Engineering and Applied Science Award for Excellence in 2021. Before starting my Ph.D., I graduated from Boğaziçi University with Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering and minor in Economics. During Fall 2021, I was a visiting graduate student at the University of Chicago to participate in the Distributed Solutions to Complex Societal Problems program of Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation (IMSI).

Broadly, I am interested in Mean Field Games & Control, and Graphon Games applications, extensions, theory, and solutions. I am also interested in Stackelberg Mean Field Games to understand how the incentives imposed by a regulator affect the behavior of large number of agents. Some of the applications I have worked on are: the effect of carbon taxes on carbon emission levels, how to mitigate an epidemic through regulations and the effect of advertisement in duopoly markets. Furthermore, I am working on proposing numerical approaches that make use of Machine Learning and Monte Carlo Simulations to solve these problems. 

You can find my CV here.