👤 About Me
I am an early-career researcher and academic in Computer Science, currently working as a lecturer at Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, Department of Computer Engineering. I completed my PhD in Computer Science at the University of Kent in 2025. Prior to that, I received my MSc from TOBB University of Economics and Technology in 2019 and my BSc from Middle East Technical University in 2017, both in Computer Science.
My research mainly focuses on the human and societal aspects of cyber security. More precisely, my research interests involve:
- Detecting false/misleading information online
- Digital deception technologies
- Human factors in cyber security
- AI and NLP applications in cyber security
If you have similar research interests, please feel free to get in touch for any collaboration.
🎧 Latest Research
📢 Latest News
- New paper titled "Improving Performance of Automatic Keyword Extraction (AKE) Methods Using PoS Tagging and Enhanced Semantic-Awareness" is now published in the special issue Information Extraction and Language Discourse Processing of MDPI's Information journal.
- I started working as a lecturer at Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, Department of Computer Engineering.
- New paper titled "FACTors: A New Dataset for Studying the Fact-checking Ecosystem" has been accepted for the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '25) as a Resource & Reproducibility paper.
- New paper titled "Deepfake: Definitions, Performance Metrics and Standards, Datasets, and a Meta-Review" has been accepted for publication in Frontiers in Big Data, section Cybersecurity and Privacy.
- I've successfully defended my PhD thesis titled "Fact-checking Ecosystem: From Modelling to Semi-automated Stakeholder-based Detection of False Information".