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I'm an HCI researcher, computer scientist, and media artist. My research is focused on integrating computation into creative processes --through system engineering, digital fabrication, GPU programming, visualization, generative art, and design. I collaborate with domain experts, implement interactive audiovisual software, and develop techniques to make digital/physical artifacts.
I am fascinated by the emergent self-organizing patterns in complex systems and how to model them computationally. I am also interested in the dichotomy between digital and physical environments, investigating how digital creative processes contribute/fall short in addressing issues in physical-making.
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.