• 02/2018 – ongoing: IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
    Associate Professor

  • 01/2015 – 01/2018: IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA, USA
    Research Staff Member
    Managers: Guy Lohman, Fatma Ozcan

  • 07/2009 – 11/2014: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
    PhD candidate working in Data-Intensive Applications and Systems (DIAS) laboratory on exploiting modern hardware for data management systems.
    Advisor: Anastasia Ailamaki

  • 05/2012 – 08/2012: Oracle Labs, Redwood Shores, CA, USA
    Summer Intern at Oracle Labs analysing the behavior of storage manager components on various cache configurations for transaction processing systems.
    Mentor: Brian Gold           Manager: Eric Sedlar
  • 06/2008 – 08/2008: University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
    Summer Intern at the TRESE group led by Prof. Mehmet Akşit working on early development stages of the company BloomWise.
    Mentors: Gürcan Güleşir and Lodewijk Bergmans

  • 07/2007 – 08/2007: Veripark, Istanbul, Turkey
    Summer Intern at Veripark developing web applications and interfaces with JSP and .NET.