About me
Hi! I am a PhD candidate in the Risk Analytics and Optimization Lab at EPFL, where I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Daniel Kuhn.
My research lies at the intersection of operations research and machine learning. I develop reliable and scalable algorithms that help decision-makers act under uncertainty. A central question in my work is how to account for uncertainty in data and models without sacrificing the speed and scale required in practice. I address this question through distributionally robust optimization, which safeguards decisions when historical data provide an incomplete picture of future conditions, and efficient sampling methods, including multilevel Monte Carlo, which make complex multistage models computationally tractable. My broader goal is to turn advances in optimization into practical tools for better decision-making across AI, finance, and operations.
Previously, I obtained my MSc and BSc in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University, where I worked under the supervision of Prof. Mustafa Çelebi Pınar.
Research
News
Excited to share that our paper Brenier Meets Adversarial Training: Optimal Transport Geometry for Robust Learning has been accepted to NeurIPS! Also, Sparsity Regularized and Robust Mean Variance Portfolio Selection Under Ellipsoidal Uncertainty has been accepted to NeurIPS MLxOR Workshop.
I presented our paper Multistage Conditional Compositional Optimization at SIAM OP26, Edinburgh!
Our paper Multistage Conditional Compositional Optimization is online!
Teaching
EPFL
Teaching AssistantService
Journal Reviewing
- Operations Research
- Mathematical Programming
- Nature Portfolio
- Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR)
- IISE Transactions
- EURO Journal on Computational Optimization
