Experience

• Assistant Professor (Sep. 2020 - current).
  Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Delft, Netherlands

• Postdoctoral Researcher (Feb. 2017 - Aug. 2020).
  Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), Kaiserslautern, Germany

• Research and Teaching Assistant (Jul. 2012 - Sep. 2016).
  College of Engineering, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey

• Research Intern (Mar. 2014 – Jul. 2014).
  IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid, Spain

• Research Intern (Jul. 2013 – Aug. 2013).
  LIAFA, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France

• Research Intern (Jun. 2013 – Aug. 2013).
  INRIA / Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

• Research and Teaching Assistant (Sep. 2010 – Jun. 2012).
  Yasar University, Izmir, Turkey

• Research and Teaching Assistant (Dec. 2007 – Aug. 2010)
  Izmir Institute of Technology, Izmir, Turkey

Education

• Ph.D. Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2016.
  Thesis: Characterization and Verification of Correctness Criteria for Event Driven Asynchronous Programs

• MSc. Izmir Institute of Technology, Izmir, Turkey, 2010.
  Thesis: Utilization of Timed Automata as a Verification Tool for Security Protocols

• BSc. Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2007.
  Thesis: Multiobjective Hyperheuristics for Data Clustering Problem

Honors and Awards

• 2023 Distinguished Paper Award, with the paper “Randomized Testing of Byzantine Fault Tolerant Algorithms”, Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA)

• 2023 Stellar Academic Research Grant for my research project proposal on “Feedback-guided fault injection testing of blockchain systems”

• 2023 Ripple Bug Bounty Program Award for the bug we discovered by our ByzzFuzz randomized testing method for testing Byzantine fault-tolerant algorithms (published at OOPSLA’23).

• 2022 Amazon Research Award in automated reasoning, for my research project proposal on “Coverage-directed random testing of distributed systems”

• 2020 Delft Technology Fellowship award for outstanding female academic researchers

• 2018 Distinguished Paper Award, with the paper “Randomized Testing of Distributed Systems with Probabilistic Guarantees”, Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA)

• 2011 The Turkish Council for Scientific and Technical Research (TUBITAK) Fellowship for PhD Students

• 2008 The Turkish Council for Scientific and Technical Research (TUBITAK) Fellowship for International Scientific Activities

• 2007 High Honour and 3rd Degree Award in Graduation, Yeditepe University

• 2007 The Turkish Council for Scientific and Technical Research (TUBITAK) Fellowship for 4th Grade Undergraduate Students