Curriculum vitae
A summary is below; the PDF has the complete version.
PDF last updated September 2026.
Research interests
I am interested in representation learning, mainly in what information neural network representations contain and how easily it can be read out. My work also covers self-supervised learning, generalization under distribution shift and generative modeling.
Education
- 2023 – present
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PhD Candidate in Computer Science
Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), Klosterneuburg, Austria
Representation learning, self-supervised learning, representation geometry, and generative modeling. Supervisor: Francesco Locatello.
- 2021 – 2023
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MSc in Computer Science
Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey · GPA 3.91
Domain generalization and group activity recognition. Supervisor: Huseyin Ozkan.
- 2015 – 2021
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BS Computer Science and Engineering, BA Economics (double major)
Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey · Mathematics minor · GPA 3.84
Selected publications
All publications →- λ-JEPA: Spectral Anti-Collapse Regularization for Self-Supervised Learning. arXiv preprint, 2026.
- Assessing Sample Quality in Conditional Generation under Compositional Shift. NeurIPS 2026.
- MorphGen: Controllable and Morphologically Plausible Generative Cell-Imaging. NeurIPS 2026.
- Out-of-Distribution Detection with Relative Angles. NeurIPS 2025.
- DECOMPL: Decompositional Learning with Attention Pooling for Group Activity Recognition from a Single Volleyball Image. ICIP 2024.
Community & service
- Reviewer
ICLR, NeurIPS, TMLR, UniReps, NeurReps, CauScien
Honors and awards
- Ranked 1st among a cohort of 20 students in the Department of Economics at Sabanci University.
- Ranked 5th among a cohort of 90 students in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Sabanci University.
- Honor scholarship for five years, awarded after ranking 1,878th among approximately 2 million participants in the nationwide university admission examination.