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Built a novel computational discovery and development platform for noncanonical viral vector-based programmable medicines.

Designed computational models for RNA structure analysis, metagenomics, and viral vector based cargo delivery for plant therapeutics.

• Project lead for computational metagenomics.• Automated peak alignment for nucleic acid capillary electrophoresis analysis via dynamic time warping. A critical step for high-throughput RNA structure analysis.• Designed metagenomics pipelines for Illumina MiSeq, Nanopore MinION, PacBio, and Sanger sequencing data.• Designed a taxonomic classifier sensitive at the genus level.• Established a system for data transfer from Illumina MiSeq to AWS S3.• Performed gel electrophoresis and microinjections.• Automated quality control for NGS.• Designed a probabilistic model for host prediction.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

• Prepared the course content for "ENGR 131: Introductory Programming for Engineers" with Dr. Andrew Cohen for the winter term of the 2021-2022 academic year.• Designed programming exercises and projects for Python.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

• Designed a semi-supervised incremental learning algorithm that analyzes amino acid sequences to predict protein functions. Experimented with different clustering methods.• Developed an algorithm to reduce the computational cost to update big biological databases.• Curated big protein data sets.• Taught “Intro to Bash/Unix” at Biological Data Science Summer Workshop organized by our lab.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

AEye (Artificial Eye) | Distributed Intelligent Scalable Computing (DISCO) Lab• Worked with Dr. Anup Das on using machine learning models (CNN, GAN, NST) to analyze human fMRI activity with the purpose of reconstructing visual experiences in a digital environment.• Developed a pipeline to improve the reconstruction accuracy for seen pictures.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

Medical Image Segmentation with UNET | Distributed Intelligent Scalable Computing (DISCO) Lab• Worked with Dr. Anup Das on the segmentation of brain tumors in multimodal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans using UNET, a convolutional neural network for biomedical image segmentation.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

• Worked on the development of a low-cost brain-computer interface (BCI) system for people with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).• Integrated an augmented reality (AR) goggle as BCI output with the use of an embedded computation platform for smart home control using Google Assistant.• Designed the user interface for the BCI and translated EEG signals into computer commands.

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Summer Research Internship, Neuroscience.

• Worked as a salesman in Grand Bazaar, one of the most touristic places in Istanbul. • Employed P2P business strategies to attract customers to our products. • Employed foreign language skills to establish a relationship with our customers. • Analyzed the competition, pricing, and marketing strategies in a perfectly competitive market.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Bioengineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical Engineering

High School Diploma, Social Sciences/Mathematics