Education
- 2009 – …
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Polytechnic Institute of NYU
(Brooklyn, NY)Graduate Exchange Student
(Brooklyn Experimental Media Center)
- (on leave)
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Helsinki University of Technology
(Espoo, Finland)Computer Science & Engineering
- 2006 – 2007
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Tampere University of Technology
(Tampere, Finland)Erasmus Exchange Student
Department of Software Systems
- 2005 – …
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Middle East Technical University
(Ankara, Turkey)B.Sc. in Computer Engineering (CGPA: 3.65)
Minor in Industrial Design(High Honour Roll 2005-2008, Honour Roll 2009 Spring)
- 2004 – 2005
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Kauhava Upper Secondary School
(Kauhava, Finland)AFS Exchange Student
- 2001 – 2004
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TED Ankara College High School
(Ankara, Turkey)International Baccalaureate Diploma
Graduation points: 39 (in top 3)
Languages
- Turkish
- Native
- English
- Fluent (TOEFL iBT 115)
- Finnish
- Fluent (YKI 5)
- German
- Basics
work
- 9.2008 – 8.2009
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RealmLab
(Ankara-Istanbul, Turkey)Designer and Frontend Developer
- 6.2008 – 8.2008
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Kuneri
(Oulu, Finland)Software Design Intern
- 5.2007
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YLE
(Finnish Broadcasting Corporation)Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki
Host of the Turkish Delegation
- 1.2007 – 9.2007
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Flander
(Tampere, Finland)Localisation Test Engineer
- 5.2003 – 12.2007
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Palm Inc.
(Sunnyvale, CA)Palm OS Expert Guide Editor
achievements
- best graduation project (METU CENG '09)
- 3rd rank in METU CENG department (Spring 2008)
- 2nd place in special Yahoo! question of the
10th METU National Programming Contest (April 2008) - 640th (top %0.25) in national university entrance examination
- gave a seminar on “Web Development with XHTML/CSS”
in METU Computer Engineering Department (May 2006) - finalist in BITEK-O (computing olympiads for high school students) (April 2002)
academic
interests
- usability, user interface/user experience design, human-computer interaction, affective computing
- linguistics, computational linguistics
- web standards, semantic web
hobbies
- aikido (4th kyu)
- backpacking (10 countries in Western Europe in 20 days in 2007)
others
- My UI mockup drafts for Betaville appeared in Kunst Magazin Berlin.
- Participated in NeoDesign (New Ergonomic Oriented Design) workshop by Fiametta Costa, Maximiliano Romero (Politecnico di Milano) in METU in May 2009. My team did usability analysis on a dishwasher and designed a new prototype based on results.
- Appeared right after the first page in Helsingin Sanomat (Finland's largest newspaper) on 9.5.2009 :)
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