About

I have a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, where I worked with Dr. Anna Papafragou on creating behavioral and computational models to explore the interaction between language and human cognitive systems. Currently, I am a Postdoctoral Researcher with Dr. Danielle Mowery at the Institute for Biomedical Informatics, University of Pennsylvania. My research uses AI to decode health records, aiming to transform patient care and uncover the hidden factors shaping health outcomes. I am also a Master's student in the Biomedical Informatics program of Perelman School of Medicine.

In the Language Learning Lab, I work with Dr. John Trueswell on how symmetry is represented in language and cognition using novel paradigms with eye-tracking.

I am affiliated with the Institute for Biomedical Informatics at Penn Medicine, the Center for Autism Research at CHOP (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia), and the Mack Institute at the Wharton School.

My M.A. (Master of Arts) degree in Linguistics is from Boğaziçi University, where I studied with Dr. Mine Nakipoğlu and Dr. Sumru Özsoy on the syntactic structure of focus particles in Turkish. Before that, I had a B.A. degree in Business Administration from Koç University. Following my undergraduate degree, I spent some time in the industry and managed large sales teams at Unilever. During this experience, I had the chance to get to know so many wonderful people all over Turkey, speaking many different languages and dialects. I am grateful to all of them, as they helped me find out that language science is my passion.