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I am an Associate Professor at IT University of Copenhagen (ITU) in Denmark since 2018. At ITU, I am the Section Head of Data, Systems, and Robotics section, where I also lead the Resource-Aware Data Systems (RAD) team. My research focuses on utilizing modern hardware (processors and storage) more effectively for data-intensive systems. These days, more specifically, I focus on resource-aware machine learning, data processing on resource-constrained hardware, and impact of SSD and CXL technologies on data management systems. My research at ITU has been supported by Independent Research Fund Denmark, Novo Nordisk Foundation, Innovation Fund Denmark, Swiss National Science Foundation, and European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.

Before joining ITU, I was a research staff member at IBM Almaden Research Center (San Jose, CA, USA) for three years, where I was part of the team that led the development of IBM Db2 Event Store.

Before IBM, I received my PhD from École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland in November 2014. During my PhD studies, I was a member of the Data-Intensive Applications and Systems Laboratory (DIAS) working under supervision of Prof. Anastasia Ailamaki. During my PhD, I was one of the main developers and maintainers of the Shore-MT storage manager.

Just before starting my PhD, I got my bachelor's degree from the Computer Engineering department of Koç University in İstanbul, Turkey in 2009. During my bachelor's, I was advised by Prof. Serdar Taşıran.

Here is my CV.