METU Sailing Team: Racing in Urla, Bodrum, and Marmaris
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Reflections on METU Sailing Club — racing on the Aegean coast in Urla, Bodrum, and Marmaris, and what competitive sailing taught me about teamwork.
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Reflections on the PhD Journey: Building Secure AI in Availability Zones
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Embarking on a PhD in Florida means waking up to salt air, sunscreen reminders, and the low rumble of aircraft testing engines at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical U…
USA vs Netherlands: An Expat’s Perspective
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Living as an expat has given me the chance to compare daily life in the United States and the Netherlands in a way that guidebooks never could. My notebook i…
technical
The Rapid Evolution of AI Music Generation
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Exploring the rapid advancements in generative audio and how sequence modeling has solved long-range dependencies in AI music generation.
Flight Simulators Are Becoming the AI Proving Ground
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What if flight simulators are the AI proving ground nobody is talking about? Three years inside Avion.
How to Recognize Advice That Actually Helps
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Entrepreneurs, researchers, and engineers live in a torrent of guidance. Podcasts, newsletters, and mentors offer conflicting prescriptions, each delivered w…
The Real Test for Making Something People Want
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Scaling conversations dominate startup culture, yet the first question any product must answer is painfully small: will even one person use it when given the…
Why Great Engineering Teams Run on Curiosity
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Working on simulator software, defensive cybersecurity platforms, and doctoral research has taught me that durable progress rarely starts with a perfect road…
The Myth of the Quick Fix
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Every engineer knows the temptation of the “five-minute hack.” A bug appears, the schedule is tight, and a clever shortcut promises to save the day. Weeks la…
Documentation as the First User Interface
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Before a developer ever sees your landing page, they might encounter your README. For many technical products, documentation is the first user interface. It …
Hiring Generalists: The Small Team’s Secret Weapon
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Why early-stage engineering teams should hire for breadth and learning rate, and how generalists become the connective tissue that later scales into specialists.
The Invisible Cost of Shiny Tools
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Engineering teams love new tools. The promise of faster development, cleaner abstractions, or a more elegant stack is hard to resist. Yet every adoption deci…
Why Early Beta Feedback Matters More Than Launch Day
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Product launches often steal the spotlight, but the feedback gathered during early beta testing quietly determines whether launch day is a victory lap or a s…
Y Combinator and DNA: Fixed Points in Code and Biology
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It started while I was nursing a Saturday-morning coffee and catching up on YouTube. Around the 11:20 mark of this talk, the speaker described the choreograp…
Proof of Learning: Building Trust in Future Machine Learning
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Proof of Learning (PoL) verifies that a model was genuinely trained on claimed data by providing verifiable evidence of the training process. I first felt th…
Model Watermarking and the Future of Trustworthy AI
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Model watermarking embeds identifiable patterns into a model’s parameters or outputs so that ownership can be demonstrated without access to the original tra…
ML-Enhanced Blockchain: Toward Intelligent, Adaptive Ledgers
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Machine learning (ML) is increasingly used to make blockchain networks more secure, efficient, and user-friendly. When I co-authored our survey on blockchain…
Blockchain Oracles and Smart Contracts: The World’s Agile Board
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Traditional agile boards depend on centralized tools and manual updates. As projects span multiple organizations and trust boundaries, these boards struggle …
Blockchain-Enhanced Machine Learning: Linking Trust, Data, and Incentives
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How blockchain’s immutable ledgers and decentralized governance address auditability, provenance, and incentive-alignment challenges in machine-learning pipelines.
Autonomous Drones and Their Future Importance
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Consider this your two-minute hangar brief. Between February 2019 and November 2020, I served as an Expert Software Engineer at STM Defence Technologies in A…
Adversarial Examples for Proof of Learning
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Code for paper ‘Adversary examples’ for Proof of Learning
SecurePoL with Watermarking
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Official code & experiments for my PhD dissertation: ‘Enhancing Security of Proof-of-Learning Against Spoofing Attacks Using Advanced Model Watermarking.’
Image Measurement with PyQt5: A Cardiology Aid
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Python’s versatility allows it to create tools for a broad spectrum of professional fields. In this blog post, we delve into creating an image measurement to…
Automatic Detection of Cyber Security Events from Turkish Twitter Stream and Newspaper Data
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Conference presentation at ICISSP 2021 on automatic detection of cyber security events from Turkish Twitter streams and newspaper data.
MS Thesis
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My Master of Science Thesis Project related researches, projects and documents.
Secure Proxy on Cloud Paper Demonstration
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Video demonstration of the Secure Proxy on Cloud paper, covering architecture motivation, implementation details, and development roadmap.