I am an Informatics Ph.D. student at Indiana University Bloomington, affiliated with the Observatory on Social Media (OSoMe). My research sits at the intersection of computational social science, network science, and artificial intelligence. I study how beliefs form, spread, and become polarized — in both human populations and AI systems — and how these dynamics are shaped and exploited through social media. I am particularly interested in developing AI-based interventions to reduce affective polarization and in understanding the conditions under which large language models become susceptible to manipulation.

Previously, I worked at Plaid and Glassdoor as a Machine Learning Engineer. I received my M.S. in Data Science from Sabancı University (VRL Lab) and hold a B.S. in Economics from Galatasaray University and Université Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne.

• Jun 2025 Industry Joined Plaid as a Machine Learning Engineer for the summer.
• Apr 2025 Preprint The Rise of Bluesky is out on arXiv.
• 2025 Publication Two papers accepted at AAAI ICWSM 2025 — on constructive conflict detection and information operations datasets.
• 2024 Publication Papers published in Social Media + Society and at CogSci 2024.
• May 2023 Industry Interned at Glassdoor as an ML Knowledge Engineer.
• Aug 2022 Industry Joined OSoMe at Indiana University as a Research Assistant.