I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute under the advisory of Prof. Mohammed Zaki. My research interests lie in the areas of data mining and databases. Currently I am working on the problem of indexing directed graphs for reachability queries. I received my M.S. degree in 2007 from the same department and my advisor was Prof. Mukkai S. Krishnamoorthy. I worked on recommendation algorithms in my thesis study.

I received my B.Sc. (2005) degree from the Computer Science Department of Bilkent University,Ankara/Turkey. During my last year in Bilkent, I worked at Bilkent Center for Bioinformatics in the project of PATIKA, under the guidance of Prof. Ugur Dogrusoz.