I am a computational sociologist and a PhD candidate in the dual-title Sociology and Social Data Analytics (STEM) PhD program at The Pennsylvania State University, where I work with Daniel Dellaposta and David Baker. I use qualitative, quantitative, and computational methods (e.g., agent-based modeling, epidemiological methods, spatial econometrics, machine learning, natural language processing and network analysis, among other techniques) to understand collective behavior. I love putting together new ‘big’ datasets, and usually aim for applying cutting edge methods combined with social theoretical rigor in analyzing unique cases (see. ongoing projects).

Talks

“Fitting In While Standing Out”: The Sonic-Semantic Structure of Innovation and Success in Popular Music. Colloquium Talk organized by The Center for Social Data Analytics, The Pennsylvania State University. USA.

Political Actors in the USA and 2020 Presidential Elections (Turkish) – Organized by the Faculty of Political Science, Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya (Turkey).

Power Politics in Afghanistan (Turkish) – Organized by the South Asia Strategic Research Center, Istanbul (Turkey).