I'm an HCI researcher, computer scientist, and media artist. I research emergent expressive technologies through system engineering, digital fabrication, data visualization, and generative art. I develop computational tools and techniques for artistic processes by collaborating with domain experts, implementing interactive audiovisual software, and creating techniques to make digital/physical artifacts. Uncovering and visualizing emergent patterns in complex systems fascinates me. I am also interested in the dichotomy between digital and physical environments, investigating how digital creative processes contribute/fall short in physical making.

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I am a Ph.D. candidate in Media Arts & Technology (MAT) at UC Santa Barbara. My interdisciplinary research is co-advised by JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, George Legrady, and Jennifer Jacobs. I currently work as a graduate student researcher in the Expressive Computation Lab.

I hold a master's degree from MAT as a Fulbright Scholar, where I focused on algorithmic composition and audiovisual live coding. I did my bachelor's in CS at Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkiye. I worked as an undergraduate researcher at BAVLAB under the supervision of Selim Balcisoy.