Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. 2005.
• B.S. in Computer Engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. 1997.

Work Experience

• 2023- (Google) X, The Moonshot Factory, Mountain View, CA (Senior Staff Software Engineer)
• 2014-2023 Google Inc, Mountain View, CA (Senior Staff Software Engineer)
• 2011-2014 Room77 Inc, Mountain View, CA (acquired by Google) (VP of Engineering)
• 2005-2022 Interactive Flow Studies Corp, Waterloo, IA (Co-founder / CTO)
• 2004-2011 Google Inc, Mountain View, CA
• 1997-2004 Army High Performance Computing Research Center, Minneapolis, MN

Areas of Expertise

• Search and ranking algorithms
• Personalization
• Large scale web data mining, machine learning
• Large scale, high dimentional clustering/classification
• Parallel and distributed computing
• Scientific visualization
• Science/engineering education
• Meta search, intranet search

Community Contributions

• 2020-2023 Tessellations, non-profit K-8 school for gifted children (Co-founder, Founding Board Member)