Who am I?

I am a second-year M.Sc. student in Computer Science at EPFL, where I am also a research scholar at Laboratory for Computation Security (COMPSEC) led by Assoc. Prof. Alessandro Chiesa. I am broadly interested in Theoretical Computer Science, especially Complexity Theory and Cryptography. I have a particular interest in probabilistic proofs, which I focus on as a research scholar. I have also done my semester project on parallel repetition of PCPs.

Before joining EPFL, I studied Mathematics with a double major in Computer Engineering at Koç University, where I was an intern at Cryptography, Security, and Privacy Research Group headed by Assoc. Prof. Alptekin Küpçü. As a receipent of Alan Howard Research Fellowship, I worked on a biometric authentication project under the supervision of Prof. Serge Vaudenay at Security and Cryptography Laboratory (LASEC) during my first year of studies at EPFL.

Besides my studies, I participate in Women+ in IC association at EPFL. In my free time, I like watching movies and listening to music. I used to do marbling (called “ebru” in Turkish, which is usually described as painting on water), which I cannot continue right now due to lack of atelier but you can check some of my work that were exhibited at the student exhibition of Marbling club at Koç University before.