Resume

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Hacettepe University (Turkey), 2012, Applied Mathematics

M.S., Hacettepe University (Turkey), 2006, Applied Mathematics

B.S., Hacettepe University (Turkey), 2004, Mathematics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Clemson University, 2025-present, Associate Professor
Clemson University, 2023-2025, Assistant Professor
Iowa State University, 2019-2023, Assistant Professor
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2017-2019, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Hacettepe University (Turkey), (2017-2019), Associate Professor (Tenured)
Hacettepe University (Turkey), 2012-2017, Instructor

LONG TERM RESEARCH VISITS

University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA 2016 (1 month) (Host: Prof. George Avalos)
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA 2015 (1 month) (Host: Prof. George Avalos)
Politecnico Di Milano, Milano-Italy, Research Scholar, 2014 (3 months) (Host: Prof. Vittorino Pata)
University of Virginia, USA, Research Scholar, 2011 (6 months) (Host: Prof. Irena Lasiecka)

INVITED CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP TALKS

15th AIMS Conference, special session on "Control, Inverse problems and Long time dynamics of Evolutionary Systems", (Invited) Athens, Greece, July 6-10, 2026
2026 Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting, special session on “Applicable Analysis of Multi-physics Partial Differential Equations Systems,” Savannah GA, (Invited), March 28-29, 2026
Joint Mathematics Meeting, special session on “Recent Developments in the Theoretical and Numerical Control of PDEs” (Invited), Washington, DC, January 4-6, 2026
SIAM Conference on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations (PD25), special session on "Recent Developments in Interactive PDE Systems of Mixed Type: Analysis, Control and Numerical Approximation" (Invited), Pittsburgh PA, November 17–20 , 2025,
AMS 2025 Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting, special session on "Partial differential equations at the intersection of gravity, fluids, and waves”, (Invited), New Orleans LA, October 3-5, 2025
AMS 2025 Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting, special session on "Recent Advances in Control and Inverse Problems for Partial Differential Equations", (Invited), New Orleans LA, October 3-5, 2025
Mathematical Congress of the Americas 2025, special session on “Nonlinear Evolution Equations: Trends in Control Theory and Related Topics”, (Invited), Miami-FL, July 21- 25, 2025
AWM Research Symposium 2025, special session on
“Recent Developments in Control Theory of Infinite Dimensional Systems”, (Invited), University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 16-18, 2025
Midwest Numerical Analysis Day 2025, special session on “Analysis of Deterministic and Stochastic Fluid and Fluid-Structure Interactions" (Invited), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, (April 5-6, 2025)

AMS Spring Central Sectional Meeting, special session on “Recent Developments on Evolutionary Partial Differential Equations: Analytical and Numerical Techniques with Applications” (Invited), University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, (March 29-30, 2025)
Joint Mathematics Meeting, special session on “Recent Developments in PDEs and Related Areas”, (Invited) Seattle, WA, January 8-11, 2025
2024 DRP Turkey, Invited speaker, August 6, 2024
2nd AMS UMI International Joint Meeting, Special session: “Analysis and Control of Evolutionary Partial Differential Equations,” Palermo-Italy, (Invited) July 23-26, 2024
Karaelmas International Science and Engineering Symposium (KISES 2024), May 10-11, 2024, Zonguldak-Turkey (Plenary Speaker)
2024 Spring Central Sectional Meeting, Special session: “Recent Advances in Nonlinear PDEs and Their Applications”, Milwaukee - WI, (Invited) April 20-21, 2024
AMS Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting, Special session: “Control, Inverse Problems and Long Time Dynamics of Evolution Systems”, Tallahassee, FL, (Invited)
March 23-34, 2024
AMS Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting, Special session: “Recent Developments in Deterministic and Stochastic PDEs”, Tallahassee, FL, (Invited) March 23-34, 2024
The 8th Annual Meeting of SIAM Central States Section (SIAM-CSS), Special session: “Evolutionary Partial Differential Equations of Deterministic and Stochastic Type”, Lincoln, NE, (Invited) October 7-8, 2023
AMS Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting, special session on “Control and Stability for Evolution Equations”, Clemson SC, March 8-9, 2025

The 2023 AWM Research Symposium, Special session: “Recent Developments in Control, Optimization, and the Analysis of Partial Differential Equations”, Atlanta, GA, (invited) September 30-October 2, 2023
The 13th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, Special session “Control and longtime dynamics of evolutionary partial differential equations”, Wilmington NC, (Invited), May 31-June 4, 2023
Advances in Numerical Partial Differential Equations Solvers for Nonlinear and Complex Multi-physics Systems “, Virginia Tech VA, (Invited), March 25-26, 2023
AMS Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting, Special session: “Modern Applied Mathematics and Spectral Analysis”, Chattanooga, TN, (Invited) October 15-16, 2022
Sonia Kovalevsky Day, Iowa State University, (Plenary Speaker) April 9, 2022
12th IMACS Conference, Special session: “Evolution Equations and Integrable Systems”, University of Georgia, GA, (Invited) March 30 - April 01, 2022
44th SIAM Southeastern Atlantic Section Conference, Special session: “The Recent Advances in Nonlinear Wave Propagation and Interaction”, Auburn University AL, (Invited-Virtual) September 18-19, 2021
IFIP TC 7 Conference on System Modelling and Optimization, Special session: “Fluid-Solid Interactions and Mixtures“, Quito-Ecuador (Invited-Virtual) August 30-September 3, 2021
SIAM Annual Meeting (AN21), Special session: “Women in Control (WIC)”, Washington D.C., (Invited-Virtual), July 19-23, 2021
8ECM- 8th European Congress of Mathematics, Special session: “Mathematical analysis: the interaction of fluids/viscoelastic materials and solids”, Portoroz- Slovenia (Invited-Virtual) June 20-26, 2021,
SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (DS21), Special session: “Analysis of nonlinear wave models”, (Invited-Virtual) May 23-27, 2021
AMS Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting, Special session: “Modern Applied Analysis”, Chattanooga, TN (Invited-Virtual) October 10-11, 2020
SIAM Conference on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations, Special session “Analysis of Evolution Partial Differential Equations and applications”, La Quinta, California (Invited) December 11-14, 2019,
Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM) 2019, Special session “Mathematical Analysis in Fluid Dynamics,” Baltimore, Maryland, (Invited) January 16-19, 2019
Mathematics in the City Beautiful: PDEs, SDEs, Control Theory and Applications to Finance and Life Sciences, University of Central Florida, Orlando (Invited), December 14-16, 2018
IFIP TC 7 Conference on System Modelling and Optimization, Special session “Celebrating the work of Igor Chueshov”, Essen-Germany, (Invited) July 23-27, 2018
KUMUNU Conference in PDE, Dynamical Systems and Applications, University of Kansas, Lawrence, (Invited speaker) April 21-22, 2018
The 2023 SIAM-SEAS Annual Meeting, Special Session: “PDEs in Fluid/Flow-Structure Interactions,” Virginia Tech VA, (Invited), March 25-26, 2023
The 2023 SIAM-SEAS Annual Meeting, Special Session: Advances in Numerical Partial Differential Equations Solvers for Nonlinear and Complex Multi-physics Systems “, Virginia Tech VA, (Invited), March 25-26, 2023

SIAM Conference on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations, Special session “Analysis, Control, and Long-time Behavior of Fluid and Flow-Structure Models”, Baltimore, Maryland, (Invited) December 9-12, 2017
KUMUNU Conference in PDE, Dynamical Systems and Applications, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE, (Invited speaker) April 22-23, 2017
Oberwolfach Workshop at the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut, Special seminar: “Mathematical Theory of Evolutionary Fluid-Flow Structure Interactions”, Oberwolfach, Germany, (Invited speaker), November 20-26, 2016
The 11th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, Special session “Control and Optimization Theory for Partial Differential Equations”, Orlando, Florida, (Invited) July 1 - 5, 2016
27th IFIP TC7 Conference 2015 on System Modelling and Optimization, Special session “Wellposedness, control, and observability theories for partial differential equations” Sophia Antipolis, France, (Invited) June 29-July 3, 2015
9th ISAAC Congress, Special session “Nonlinear Infinite Dimensional Evolutions and Control Theory with Applications”, Krakow, Poland, (Invited) August 5-9, 2013
9th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, Special session “Nonlinear PDEs and Control Theory with Applications” Orlando, FL, (Invited) July 1-5, 2012

INVITED SEMINAR/COLLOQUIUM TALKS

PDE Seminar, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, (Invited) April 2025
DARPA Turkey, (Invited) August 2024
Karaelmas International Science and Engineering Symposium (KISES-2024), Zonguldak (Turkey), (Invited), May 10-11, 2024
Florida International University, (Invited), March 2024
Zonguldak Bulent Ecevit University (Turkey), (Invited), June 2023
Analysis Seminar, Bilkent University (Turkey), (Invited), June 2023
Applied Mathematics Seminar, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, (Invited), April 2022
Sonia Kovalevsky Day, Iowa State University, (Invited), April 2022

Iowa PDE Seminar, Iowa State University, (Invited), October 2021
Analysis Seminar, University of Kansas, Lawrence, (Invited), March 2021
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, (Invited), March 2021
8th Fall Mathematics Meetings, Turkey (Invited-Virtual), October 17-18, 2020
Seminar
CoMFRE-Iowa State University, (Invited), December 2019
Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminar, Iowa State University, (Invited),
October 2019
Probability and Analysis Seminar, Iowa State University, (Invited), September 2019
PDE Seminar, University of Zagreb, Croatia, (Invited), June 2019
Applied Mathematics Seminar, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, (Invited), March
2019
Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, (Invited), February 2019
Iowa State University, (Invited), December 2018
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, (Invited), November 2018
Analysis Seminar, University of Kansas, Lawrence, (Invited), October 2018
Analysis Seminar, Clemson University, SC, (Invited), September 2018
University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, (Invited), February 2018
(Colloquium)
PDE Seminar, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, (Invited), October 2017
Differential Equations Seminar, NC State University, Raleigh NC, (Invited), February
2015
PDE Seminar, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, (Invited), February 2015
Analysis Seminar, University of Brescia (Italy), (Invited), May 2014
PDE Seminar, Politecnico Di Milano (Italy), (Invited), April 2014
PDE Seminar, Cankaya University, Ankara (Turkey), (Invited), May 2012
PDE seminar, University of Virginia, (Invited), December 2011
Differential Equations Seminar, Middle East Technical University, Ankara (Turkey),
(Invited), April 2, 2010

Special sessions organized in Conferences/Workshops

2026 AMS Sectional Meeting, special session on "Deterministic and Stochastic PDEs: Theoretical and Numerical Analyses", Savannah GA, March 28-29, 2026 (with Xiang Wan)
SIAM Conference on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations (PD25), Pittsburgh PA, November 17–20 , 2025 (with G. Avalos)
AMS Spring 2025 Central Sectional Meeting, special session on “Recent Developments on Evolutionary Partial Differential Equations: Analytical and Numerical Techniques with Applications”, University of Kansas, Lawrence, March 29-30, 2025 (with George Avalos)
2nd AMS UMI International Joint Meeting, special session on “Analysis and Control of Evolutionary Partial Differential Equations,” Palermo-Italy, July 23- 26, 2024 (with Cristina Pignotti)
2024 Joint Mathematics Meeting, special session on “Recent Developments in the Analysis and Control of Partial Differential Equations arising in Fluid and Fluid- Structure Interactive Dynamics”, San Francisco, CA, January 3-6, 2024 (with G. Avalos)
The 8th Annual Meeting of SIAM Central States Section (SIAM-CSS), special session on “Recent Developments in Deterministic and Stochastic PDEs: Theoretical and Numerical Analyses”, Lincoln, NE, October 7-8, 2023 (with Quyuan Lin)
The 2023 AWM Research Symposium, special session on “Recent Developments in Control, Optimization, and the Analysis of Partial Differential Equations”, Atlanta, GA, September 30-October 2, 2023 (with Lorena Bociu)
SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications (CT23), special session on “Mathematical and Computational Analysis of Evolution Equations and Fluid Structure Interaction Dynamics”, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 24-26, 2023 (with G. Avalos)
The 13th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, special session on “Qualitative Properties and Numerical Approximations of PDE Systems which Govern Fluid Flows and Flow-Structure Interactions”, Wilmington, NC, USA, May 31 - June 4, 2023 (with G. Avalos)
7th KUMUNU-ISU Conference on PDE, Dynamical Systems, and Applications, Iowa State University, Ames-IA (Organizer-Chair), 2023
AMS Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting, special session on “Deterministic and Stochastic PDEs: Theoretical and Numerical Analyses” University of Tennessee- Chattanooga, 2022 (with H. Bessaih)
IFIP TC 7 Conference on System Modeling and Optimization, special session on “Qualitative and quantitative analysis of nonlinear evolutionary partial differential equations”, Quito, Ecuador, 2021 (with G. Avalos)
KUMUNU-ISU Conference on PDE, Dynamical Systems, and Applications, Lincoln- NE, (Co-Organizer), 2021
AMS Fall Southeastern Sectional Meeting, special session on “Applicable Analysis of PDE Systems which Govern Fluid Flows and Flow-Structure Interactions”, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, 2020 (with G. Avalos)

SIAM Conference on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations, special session on “Analysis and Control Theory for Fluid and Fluid Structure PDEs”, California, 2019 (with G. Avalos)
5th Annual Meeting of SIAM Central States Section, special session on “Control, Stability and Asymptotic Behavior of Coupled PDEs”, Iowa State University, Iowa, 2019 (with S. Hansen)
AMS Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting, special session on “Mathematical Analysis and Control Theory of Coupled Partial Differential Equation Models”, University of Auburn, Alabama, 2019 (with G. Avalos and Laszlo Kindrat)
21th Annual Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics, Lincoln, NE (Co-Organizer), 2019
IFIP TC 7 Conference on System Modelling and Optimization, special session on “Qualitative analysis and control theoretic properties of evolutionary partial differential equations”, Germany, 2018 (with G. Avalos)

20th Annual Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics, Lincoln, NE (Co-Organizer), 2018

HONORS AND AWARDS

Edith T. Hitz Fellowship for Exceptional Female Scholars, University of Nebraska- Lincoln, 2017-2019
University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Arts and Sciences International Research Collaborations 2016 Award, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2016
University Honors Prize for 3rd best mathematics GPA among all B.S students across campus, Hacettepe University, Turkey, 2004