School Counsellor

Bilim Kültür Koleji

Worked with students, parents, teachers, and mental-health professionals on assessment and follow-up.

Clinical Psychology Intern

Yeditepe University Hospital

Worked with adults in interviews, assessment, and psychotherapy within psychoanalytic and psychodynamic frameworks.

Research Assistant

TÜBİTAK 3501 / Yeditepe University

Worked on field and laboratory studies of children’s interactions with AI, voice assistants, and social robots.

MA Clinical Psychology

Yeditepe University

Completed a thesis on literary readership, mentalisation, and empathy, with training in statistics, psychometrics, and clinical assessment.

Publication

Computer Speech & Language

Contributed to research comparing theory-of-mind performance in Turkish and English large language models.

Deputy Manager

OPPO Türkiye

Coordinated teams of up to 35 people across shifts and managed ERP/MES workflows, multilingual communication, and operational reporting.

Education operations systems

Bilim Kültür Koleji

Built Excel, Python, OR-Tools, and LaTeX systems for student tracking, reporting, scheduling, and decision support.

BA Psychology and BA English Language & Literature

Yeditepe University

Completed BAs in Psychology and English Language & Literature; graduated as valedictorian of the English Language & Literature department.

Chinese Language and Culture Summer School

Nankai University

Studied Mandarin Chinese and Chinese culture. I work in Turkish and English, with Chinese, French, and German.

Clinical Psychology Intern

Yeditepe University Hospital

Worked with adult clients in psychoanalytic and psychodynamic interviews and psychotherapy; received supervision on formulation, transference, and ethical boundaries.

School Counsellor

Bilim Kültür Koleji

Worked with students aged 3–18, parents, teachers, and external professionals on counselling, assessment, and follow-up.

MA Clinical Psychology

Yeditepe University

Completed training in Rorschach, TAT, CAT, and neuropsychological assessment, with individual and group psychoanalytic/psychodynamic supervision.

Pedagogical Formation

Marmara University

Completed education in teaching, counselling, assessment, classroom management, and a secondary-school counselling placement.

Multidisciplinary follow-up

Works across clinical, developmental, academic, and social needs, coordinating with families, schools, and mental-health professionals when appropriate.

Research Assistant

TÜBİTAK 3501 / Yeditepe University

Worked on experiments, observation, data collection, transcription, coding, and analysis with 5–8-year-old children, AI, voice assistants, and social robots.

Human–AI interaction research

AI Trust and Voice Assistants studies

Built platforms and data workflows for studies of trust, response quality, parenting, and children’s question-asking.

MA Thesis

Yeditepe University

Completed a cross-sectional study of literary readership, mentalisation, and empathy with 258 university students.

Theory of Mind Performance of Large Language Models

Computer Speech & Language

Contributed to research and analysis comparing theory-of-mind performance in Turkish and English large language models.

Research systems

Built experiment flows and tools for transcription, CLAN conversion, coding, and validation with Wizard-of-Oz, Python, Streamlit, SQLite, the OpenAI API, and TTS.

Analysis

Worked with regression, factor analysis, clustering, structural equation modelling, Cronbach alpha, chi-square, correlation, and group comparisons.

Theory of Mind Performance of Large Language Models

Computer Speech & Language

Contributed to research, writing, and analysis comparing theory-of-mind performance in Turkish and English large language models.

MA Thesis

Yeditepe University

Wrote and completed a study of the relationship between literary readership, mentalisation, and empathy.

English Language & Literature

Yeditepe University

Studied literature, psychoanalytic theory, and narrative across disciplines; graduated as department valedictorian.

Writing

I write essays and notes about clinical work, research, systems, and everyday life.

Chinese Language and Culture Summer School

Nankai University

Studied Mandarin Chinese and Chinese culture. I work in Turkish and English, with Chinese, French, and German.

Education operations systems

Bilim Kültür Koleji

Built Excel, Python, OR-Tools, and LaTeX tools for student tracking, reporting, scheduling, and decision support.

Research tools

AI Trust and Voice Assistants studies

Built platforms and data pipelines for experiment flows, collection, transcription, coding, and validation.

Deputy Manager

OPPO Türkiye

Coordinated teams of up to 35 people across shifts and managed ERP/MES workflows, multilingual communication, and operational reporting.

Human–system interface

Simplifies complex workflows and builds command and reporting tools that people can understand.

Tools

Builds software with Python, TypeScript, React, FastAPI, SQLite, PostgreSQL, the OpenAI API, Telegram, and Docker.