Short Bio

I am a PhD Student in Political Science at Northeastern University. I earned my B.A. in Economics from Bogazici University and my M.Sc. in Middle East Studies from METU. My research sits at the intersection of data science and social sciences. I specialize in social network analysis and computational text analysis to study online polarization, online extremism and non-state actors with a particular focus on how they radicalize.

I am a graduate of SICSS-Helsinki in 2018 and ICPSR Summer Program in 2020 as one of the recipients of the Scholarship for Political Science Research. I am co-organizer of Summer Institute in Computational Social Science in Istanbul. I am also the lead of Istanbul Twitter Develeoper Community.

Education

• PhD in Political Science, 2021 - Present

  Northeastern University

• MSc in Middle East Studies, 2019

  Middle East Technical University

• BA in Economics, 2016

  Bogazici University

Teaching Experience

• Computational Thinking | Fall 2020

  An Undergraduate Course at Kadir Has University

• Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) | Istanbul

  • June 2019

  • June 2020

Method Schools

• Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods

  Machine Learning | April 2021

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

  Advanced Network Analysis | July - August 2020

  Data Science and Text Analysis | July - August 2020

• Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS-Helsinki)

  Computational Social Science | June 2018