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About

I am a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department at UCLA. I work in the Software Engineering and Analysis Laboratory (SEAL), where I am advised by Prof. Miryung Kim. My research sits at the intersection of software engineering and machine learning, exploring ways to build scalable, explainable and reliable software testing tools, as well as more accurate and efficient methods for constrained and structured generation with large language models.

Before joining UCLA, I earned my B.S. in Computer Science from Bilkent University in 2025. I continue to collaborate with the Bilkent Software Engineering and Data Analytics Research Group (BILSEN) as a research volunteer under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Eray Tüzün, studying developer and project metrics that capture software evolution.

Research Interests

• Software testing and debugging
• Large language models and constrained/structured generation
• Developer and project analytics
• Software evolution and maintenance

Highlights

• Graduate Researcher, SEAL Lab @ UCLA — building empirical foundations for developer-facing automation, spanning fuzzing risk assessment and LLM-based structured generation.
• Research Volunteer, BILSEN @ Bilkent University — investigating metric-driven insights for long-lived software systems.

If you would like to collaborate or learn more about my work, feel free to reach out.