Research Assistant at the Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

• August 2009 - August 2015
• Working on expert retrieval in social media
• Working with Prof. Jamie Callan

Research Assistant at the Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar

• March 2009 - May 2009
• Worked on Statistical Machine Translation from English to Turkish
• Worked with Prof. Kemal Oflazer

Visiting Researcher at the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

• June 2008 - August 2008
• Worked on text anonymization of medical records
• Worked with Bradley Malin, Ph.D. and The Health Information Privacy Laboratory (HIPLAB)
• Colabratively worked with a team from the Information Technology Center at the MITRE Corporation
• Funded by Vanderbilt International Office (VIO) Grants Program

Software Engineering Intern at Google Headquarters Mountain View, CA

• June 2007 - September 2007
• Worked with Google News Team

Summer Intern at the International Computer Science Institute Berkeley, CA (ICSI)

• June 2006 - September 2006
• Worked on Automatic Speech Recognition and Natural Language Understanding for spoken dialog systems under the guidance of Dilek Hakkani Tur, Ph.D.

Participant in the Microsoft Summer School Istanbul, Turkey

• July 2005 - August 2005
• Introduction to Windows Server 2003, SQL Server 2005, .NET C#, Asp .NET
• Developed a blog web application
• (the content of the summer school)