Education
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2024 – June 2027 (expected)
M.A. in Economics (with thesis)
Sabancı University
- Thesis: Optimal Financing of Public Transit (Advisor: Eren İnci)
- Selected coursework: Discrete Choice Methods, Matchings and Markets, Microeconomics I, Advanced Macroeconomics
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2021 – 2024
B.Sc. in Mathematics
Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University
- Selected coursework: Real Analysis (Advanced Calculus I–II), Linear Algebra, Abstract Algebra, Complex Analysis, Metric Spaces, Algebraic Topology, Differential Geometry, Probability, Stochastic Modelling
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2016 – 2021
Coursework in Mathematics
Istanbul Bilgi University
Research Interests
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Microeconomic theory; game theory; industrial organization; matching and market design; applications to transportation and urban economics
Research
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“Financing Transit Through Economic Activity” (with Kevin Hasker and Eren İnci)
Working paper
- Develops an equilibrium model in which transit serving shopping trips is financed by a fare and a sales tax, and shows that shifting revenue from the fare to the sales tax raises welfare; the welfare-maximizing fare is zero.
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Fall 2025
“Time vs. Money Under Conscription: A Hybrid Choice Analysis of Turkey’s Paid Military Service”
Course project (team of four), ECON 635 Discrete Choice Methods, Sabancı University
- Proposes a hybrid choice (ICLV) specification of the choice between six-month standard service and a three-week paid exemption to estimate the value of time, with latent attitudes shifting time and cost sensitivities; estimation in Biogeme (Python) in progress.
Teaching Experience
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2024 – 2026
Teaching Assistant
Sabancı University
- ECON 201 Games and Strategies (Eren İnci) — Spring 2026
- MATH 306 Statistical Modelling, three terms (E. Aydın, S. O. Sezer, T. Bayraktar) — Fall 2024 – Fall 2025
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Summer 2026
Instructor, Summer Program
Nesin Mathematics Village
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2020
Teaching Assistant, Mustafa Yağcı Semester Program
Nesin Mathematics Village
Mathematics Research Experience
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2023 – 2024
Graduation project on Khovanov homology
Advisor: Mustafa Topkara
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2022
Directed Reading Program Turkey: exotic discs in the 4-ball
Mentor: Eylem Zeliha Yıldız (Duke)
- Talk at the Bahar Mathematics Meeting, Istanbul University — Oct. 2022
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2021 – 2022
Reading seminars
Galatasaray University
- Persistent homology (Serap Gürer), Young’s lattices (Meral Tosun), modular groupoids and braids (Ayberk Zeytin)
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Spring 2022
Audited graduate courses
Galatasaray University
- MATH 509 Homological Algebra (Serap Gürer), MATH 532 Real Algebraic Curves (Meral Tosun)
Honors, Scholarships and Funding
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2024 – 2027
Full Tuition Waiver and Housing Scholarship, M.A. in Economics
Sabancı University
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2024
Travel Funding, Young Topologists Meeting
University of Münster
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2022
Funding
Directed Reading Program Turkey
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2021, 2022
Travel and Accommodation Funding, GGTI Workshops
Gökova Geometry–Topology Institute
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2023
Full Funding, Antalya Algebra Days XXII
Nesin Mathematics Village
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2017 – 2024
Scholarship Student, summer and winter mathematics programs
Nesin Mathematics Village
Skills
- Computing
- Python (NumPy, pandas, Biogeme), Stata, MATLAB, LaTeX, Lean 4 (formal verification)
- Languages
- Turkish (native), English (fluent), French (basic)