RESEARCH & TEACHING
Research that strengthens real technical decisions.
My academic work focuses on recurring weaknesses in AI and data practice: poorly understood datasets, unexamined performance measures and processes that jump to modelling before establishing evidence quality.
The purpose is not to add academic language to delivery. It is to make technical claims more testable, comparable and defensible.
Academic qualification: Associate Professor qualification in Computer Engineering; PhD from Middle East Technical University.
RESEARCH THEMES
Four recurring decision weaknesses.
DATASET QUALITYDataset quality and profiling
Feature-frequency distributions, source differences, dataset comparison and systematic profiling—particularly for high-dimensional binary-feature datasets.
Practical relevance: AI readiness, source comparison, migration risk, labelling quality and fitness-for-purpose decisions.
MEASUREMENTPerformance evaluation and metric selection
BenchMetrics and related work examine whether Accuracy, F1 and other measures behave robustly enough to support the intended decision.
Practical relevance: evaluation design, metric rationale, model comparison and defensible acceptance criteria.
PROCESSSystematic and responsible machine learning
Process structures that treat dataset-quality analysis as a control gateway, rather than an optional preparation task.
Practical relevance: stage gates, evidence requirements and separation of data, model and system quality.
SECURITYCybersecurity knowledge and decision models
Malware, mobile security, taxonomies, secure information sharing, awareness and strategic security thinking.
Practical relevance: threat reasoning, security architecture, governance and education.
SELECTED PEER-REVIEWED WORK
Methods, not decorative citations.
NEURAL COMPUTING AND APPLICATIONS · SCI/Q1 · 2021BenchMetrics
A systematic method and meta-metrics for testing the robustness of classification-performance measures.
View DOI ↗WIREs DATA MINING AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY · SCI/Q1 · 2022Gaining Insights in Datasets in the Shade of “Garbage In, Garbage Out”
Feature-space distribution fitting to understand and compare datasets before model development.
View DOI ↗SN COMPUTER SCIENCE · 2022PToPI
A systematic knowledge representation and periodic-table-style structure for a large performance-measure landscape.
View DOI ↗INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MACHINE LEARNING AND CYBERNETICS · 2023BenchMetrics Prob
Systematic benchmarking of probabilistic error and loss instruments across designed evaluation cases.
View DOI ↗IEEE ISCTURKEY · 2022Accuracy Barrier — ACCBAR
A performance indicator that exposes cases where reported Accuracy is confounded by a simple baseline or class distribution.
View DOI ↗IEEE IBIGDELFT · 2018New Techniques in Profiling Big Datasets for Machine Learning
Techniques and dimensions for profiling large ML datasets, illustrated through Android mobile-malware data.
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TOOLS · ASSETS · PATENTS
Turning concepts into usable technical assets.
BenchMetrics
Research method, experimentation material, metric-space data and an open-source API for examining performance-measure robustness.
Explore BenchMetrics ↗TasKar
A compact research and education tool for calculating and visualising binary-classification performance instruments.
View paper ↗Five granted U.S. patents
Named inventor in a connected route-guidance family covering near-real-time guidance and local/global walkable-path generation.
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TEACHING
Five courses. 62 hours 52 minutes. One learning architecture.
The courses are in Turkish and progress from foundations to advanced analysis, malware and enterprise security governance.
14h13A — FoundationsConcepts, principles, threats, attacks and defence ↗16h13B — IntermediateRisk, controls, privacy, cryptography and Zero Trust ↗13h57C — AdvancedIoC/IoA, Cyber Kill Chain, MITRE ATT&CK and threat intelligence ↗10h24E — Introduction to MalwareActors, propagation, infection, concealment and risk ↗8h05Enterprise Security & AuditTürkiye BİG Guide, ISO 27001/27002 and CIS Controls ↗ View instructor profile ↗
RESEARCH → ARCHITECTURE VALUE
Rigour applied before the costly commitment.
DATASET PROFILING → SOURCE & AI-READINESS RISKMETRIC BENCHMARKING → DEFENSIBLE ACCEPTANCETAXONOMIES → SEMANTIC ARCHITECTURESYSTEMATIC ML → DATA, MODEL & SYSTEM GATESCYBERSECURITY → ASSURANCE & THREAT REASONINGTOOLS & PATENTS → CONCEPTS MADE USABLE