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 Intern. I received my M.S. in Data Science from Sabancı University, where I was a member of the VRL Lab. I hold a B.S. in Economics from Galatasaray University and Université Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Research Interests

• Opinion dynamics and belief system modeling
• Affective and political polarization
• Disinformation, misinformation, and information operations
• Large language models: susceptibility, manipulation, and societal impact
• Social media platform dynamics and network science
• Computational social science