• Post-Doctoral Fellow, McMaster University, Canada, 2004
• Ph.D. in Statistics, Middle East Technical University, 2003
• M.S. in Statistics, Middle East Technical University, 1999
• B.Sc. in Statistics, Middle East Technical University, 1996

Academic and Professional Experience:

• Professor, Dept. of Statistics, Middle East Technical University, 2015-Present
• Visiting Professor, Dept. of Management, Boğaziçi University, 2016-2017
• Assistant to the President, Middle East Technical University, 2012-2016
• Associate Professor, Dept. of Statistics, Middle East Technical University, 2010-2015
• Assistant Professor, Dept. of Statistics, Middle East Technical University, 2008-2010
• Visiting Scientist, Dept. of Decision Sciences, George Washington University, 2008
• Instructor, Dept. of Statistics, Middle East Technical University, 2004-2007
• Lecturer, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, 2004
• Research Assistant, Dept. of Statistics, Middle East Technical University, 1996-2003

Research Interests:

• Robust Statistics and Inference
• Statistical Distributions and Their Applications
• Goodness-of-Fit Tests, Outlier Detection
• Decision Support Systems
• Big Data Analytics
• Data Science
• Reliability and Survival Models
• Survey Design and Sampling
• Environmental Statistics
• Financial Statistics
• Quality Control
• Circular Statistics
• Sports Statistics
• Teaching Interests:
• Statistical Theory
• Reliability
• Generalized Linear Models
• Stochastic Processes
• Multivariate Statistics

Selected Publications:

• Goodness-of-fit tests based on Kullback-Leibler information, IEEE Transactions in Reliability, Vol. 53 (3), pp. 357-361, 2004 (with B. Şenoğlu).
• Goodness-of-fit tests for multivariate distributions, Communications in Statistics–Theory and Methods, Vol. 35, 1319-1331, 2006.
• A power comparison and simulation study of goodness-of-fit tests, Computers and Mathematics with Applications, Vol. 56, 1617-1625, 2008.
• Monitoring reliability for a three-parameter Weibull distribution, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 94, 503-508, 2009 (with H. S. Sazak).
• MMLEs are as good as M-estimators or better, Statistics and Probability Letters, 79, 984-989, 2009 (with M. L. Tiku).
• Ranked Set Sampling, Methods and Applications of Statistics in the Atmospheric and Earth Sciences, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2012 (with G. P. Patil, G.D. Johnson and D. Egemen).
• Graphical Methods for Reliability Data, Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2013 (with H. S. Sazak).
• Ranked Set Sampling, Encyclopedia of Environmetrics, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2013 (with G. P. Patil and D. Egemen)
• Testing for Censored Bivariate Distributions with Applications to Environmental Data, Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 22(4), 637-649, 2015.

Scholarships, Awards and Honors:

• Academic Performance Award, METU, 2010
• Doçent Title, Higher Education Council of Turkey, 2010
• Young Investigator Award, METU Development Foundation, 2009
• NATO Science Fellowship Grant, The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), April 2003
• Certificate for being the first among all bachelor students graduated from the Department of Statistics, METU, June 1996