I received my bachelor's degree from the School of Geomatic Engineering. Since my passion and ambition have always been to study computer science, I applied to the Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) department at ITU to pursue my master's degree and PhD. My research areas have been formed based on the experiences I gained while in the Department of CSE at ITU. 

In my research, I have been particularly interested in machine learning (ML), exploring more advanced techniques and developing alternative ML methods to address multiple issues encountered in various application domains. The ML topics on which I have been mostly involved are methods, explainable AI, classification, multivariate regression, feature selection, feature extraction, manifold learning, model selection, and optimization, including heuristic methods. I have also been involved in remote sensing image analysis, including earthquake damage assessment using high-resolution satellite images, hyperspectral image classification along with dimensionality reduction, and SAR data analysis for paddy-rice crop monitoring.