- Product leader, end to end reponsible for autonomous driving during inclement weather (e.g., rain, fog, snow/ice, haboob and wind etc.) Crossfunctional team consists of AI (perception, prediction, motion planning), data science, simulation, testing, hardware, system, safety, and operations.- Product manager for perception/tracking

Acquired Uber ATG in January 2021.Working very hard to deliver the benefits of self-driving safely, quickly and broadly to the world.

Virtual sensor simulation (lidar, camera, and radar) and realism to enable autonomy subsystem (e.g., perception, motion planning) and end to end testing; training autonomy machine learning models; and experiment with novel sensing features - in collaboration with R&D, autonomy, and system engineering and test.Compute hardware in the loop simulation road map and strategy for burn-down of autonomy timing/performance-related problems, high fidelity offline simulation, and proving the safety of AV.

Analyzed AV sensors (lidar, radar, and camera) for their perception performance, cost, and effect on operational design domains (ODDs) to ascertain the importance of lidar for the frequency of handoffs in L4.Owned AI/ML platform used by autonomy teams: gathered requirements; validated customer value; defined a roadmap with attainable milestones; and prioritized projects/tooling.Defined and tracked product, safety, and user-comfort metric/KPI for autonomy teams and drove the adoption of simulation and road testing.Created AD simulation scenarios including driving functions, rare events, accident causing events (leveraging NHTSA traffic statistics, and naturalistic study results) for test and validation.

Virtual Private Cloud: As lead product manager, owned the product starting R&D phase and launched it. Defined Minimum Viable Product; wrote specs as user-stories and attainable technical requirements; guided the teams of design, engineering, marketing, and sales that consist of hundreds of IBMers; and launched VPC.Evangelized the product to S&P 500 and international clients e.g., JP Morgan, Softbank, AT&T, and SNCF. Gave Watson and Cloud BluePrint talk to 2300 attendees and received a positive rating fro %96 of them.Managed status reports and presented to IBM executives.Cloud Internet Services(DNS/DNR/GLB): As product manager, performed SWOT analysis of competitors and market opportunity; collected and prioritized customer requirements; assessed current IBM offerings; created product roadmap; and financial projections - which laid the foundations of IBM Cloud Internet Services.

World's largest hedge fund manager.Collaborated in design and implementation of distributed and scalable machine data aggregation, analysis, and real-time alerting system based on user defined policies. Utilized the Click Modular Router, C++, Python and RE2 libraries. Created a network management framework that enables expression of low-level device configuration via declarative language. Automated various network tasks by utilizing the core libraries of the framework.Collaborated in design and implementation of Splunk architecture in AWS cloud in DevOps fashion to provide real-time alerts and better security. Developed use cases and applied functional and load testing. Transferred the system to operations team.Contributed to evaluation of infrastructure and security products against internal-client requirements and engineering standards. Oversaw deployment and support of these products on premise. Trained and led the team of engineers on Python programming and automation.

Designed and implemented novel mobility architecture and mobility model funded by NSF Future Internet Design Initiative.Implemented a novel future Internet mobility protocol, HMIPv6, and PMIPv6 on OPNET (C/C++). Utilized libraries of OPNET Modeler IP, wireless LAN MAC modules, and created custom modules. Created theoretical frameworks for user-centric handoff cost analysis, comparison, and optimization.Validated theoretical results with GAMS, OPNET, and Monte Carlo simulations.Implemented data routing part of the multi-mesh tree protocol on Mica2 sensor nodes using nesC on Tiny OS 2 environment.

Conducted weekly lectures and lab sessions; managed lab assistants; designed and graded exams and labs for Cyber Self Defense Course to 300 undergraduate students in total.

Collaborated in research, design and development of an Internet browser for digital TVs to bring Internet business opportunities to TV environment, utilizing Worldwide TV Markup language and C following iterative and evolutionary design pattern. Digiturk is Turkey’s first and leading digital platform.Supervisor: Erkan Kara

The Microsoft Student Partners is a worldwide educational program to sponsor students majoring in disciplines related to technology. The MSP program attempts to enhance students' employability by offering training in skills not usually taught in academia, including knowledge in various Microsoft technologies.Supervisors: Eminay Yurtseven and Mehmet Nuri Cankaya

Got the 3rd place in Turkey at International Microsoft Imagine Cup Software Design Competition.Led the team of four fellow students and created work collaborations with non-profit organizations.Contributed to the design and development of a desktop-based educational game platform integrated with haptics, mobile devices and BTNode sensors. Utilized MS Visual Studio 2005 Team System, MS SQL server 2005 and C/C#.Supervisor: Professor Oznur Ozkasap

Designed and implemented web/desktop based contract and report management system applying MVC design pattern and UML-based modeling. Utilized Visual Studio 2005, C #, MS SQL and AJAX. Supervisor: Osman Basbugoglu

Conducted recitations, held office hours, designed and graded laboratory projects for introduction to engineering, introduction to programming with C, advanced programming and operating systems courses.Supervisor: Professor Oznur Ozkasap

Studied effective coding and transportation of videos for cellular viewing under the supervision of Prof. Reha Civanlar. Developed a new algorithm utilizing Nokia H.264 codec, Virtual DUB, Motion2D and Matlab.Supervisor: Professor Reha Civanlar

Contributed to research, design and development of UPnP A/V media server and UI utilizing windows SDK, Intel, Phillips libraries and UPnP development tools in creation of device and service description, and device connectivity. Vestel is Europe's innovative consumer electronics company with € 3.7 billion turnover.Supervisor: Turgut Kirci

Developed a web platform that enables employees to add/edit their work report and managers to monitor as well as perform data mining of these reports. SAS programming language and development platform are used. Supervisor: Ozge Neslihan Cayci