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PhD in Computer Science & Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 2003-Present

MS in Computer Science & Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 2006

BS in Microelectronics Engineering; Minor Degree in Physics: Sabanci University, Turkey, 2003
 

• Reliability modeling on system-on-chips
• Multiprocessor scheduling
• Fault tolerance in deep submicron and nanoscale technologies
• Computer architecture
• Embedded system design
   

• Graduate Student Researcher, University of California San Diego, October 2003- present, Advisor: Tajana Simunic Rosing
• Intern, Sun Microsystems, San Diego, June 2006 - present, Supervisor: Kenny Gross

• Student Intern, Integrated Systems Laboratory/Microelectronic Systems Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, Summer 2005 and Summer 2008, Advisors: Yusuf Leblebici and Giovanni De Micheli

• Teaching Assistant, University of California San Diego:  Digital Logic Design (Summer 2004); Theory of Computability (Winter 2005); Compilers II (Spring 2005)

• Intern in Alcatel Microelectronics, Research and Development Department, Alcatel Teletas (currently owned by ST Microelectronics), Istanbul-Turkey, Summer 2002

• UCSD Graduate Student Fellowship, 2003
• Sabanci University Merit Scholarship, 1999-2003
• University Entrance Exam (OSS), Turkey, ranked in top 0.05% among 1.5 million applicants, 1999
   

• Programming Experience: C, C++, Intel x86 and MIPS assembly, Perl, Matlab
• Modeling and Hardware Description Languages: SystemC, VHDL
• Architecture / Compiler Simulation Tools: Simplescalar, Atom, M5
• VLSI Tools: Cadence, Synopsis, Xilinx ISE, ModelSim, Spice, SoC Encounter