I am a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science (minor: Computational Social Science) at Northeastern University. My research examines the segregation of political life — how citizens allocate attention across partisan lines, how publics turn against other nations, and how elites and experts divide — in domains spanning American politics and international relations. I work with natural language processing, network analysis, and statistics, and study whether the instruments themselves, including large language models, measure what we think they do. At Northeastern I have served as a Teaching Assistant for courses including Comparative Politics, Globalization & International Affairs, Research Methods, and Statistical Analysis. I worked as a Data Consultant for the Boston Area Research Initiative (Northeastern & Harvard universities) and led the AI bootcamp of the AIDE (AI + Data Ethics) Summer Program at Northeastern’s Ethics Institute. I have also been a Research Fellow at the NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science and in the Aldrich Resilience Lab. My work has been presented at APSA, MPSA, ISA, PolMeth, PolNet, IC2S2, NetSci, and PaCSS.
Selected work
Dissertation
Three Essays on Attention Segregation in American Online Life
- Paper 1Selective attentionwhat holds a reader once content arrives
- Paper 2Cultural spilloverdoes partisan attention sort everyday life?
- Paper 3Attention settingdoes elite conflict capture private attention, or chase it?
Anti-Americanism
Expressions of Criticism and Bias toward the United States: Evidence from Turkish Twitter
Currently
- Fall 2026Visiting doctoral fellow at Caltech (Alvarez Lab), working on Tech in Congress and some collaborations on auditing LLMs
- Sep 2026Essay · (Re)reading Sartori in another computer revolution · Substack
- Sep 2026APSA 2026, Boston · "Stance Is Not a Construct" · write-up
- Sep 2026PaCSS 2026, Boston University · Network Shocks · write-up
- Aug 2026IC2S2 and NEMI · Political Geometry · write-up
Vitae
- PhD Candidate, Political Science (minor: Computational Social Science) — Northeastern University, expected Spring 2027. Committee: Nick Beauchamp (chair), David Lazer, Risa Kitagawa.
- Graduate Certificate, Computational Social Science — Northeastern University, 2022
- MSc, Middle East Studies — Middle East Technical University, 2019
- BA, Economics — Boğaziçi University, 2016
Honors. TÜBA GEBIP PhD Fellowship, Turkish Academy of Sciences (2019–2021) · ICPSR Summer Program Scholarship (2020) · Russell Sage Foundation award, SICSS-Helsinki (2018) · APSA Political Methodology travel awards (2024, 2026) · APSA PolCom Sparks award (2024) · APSA PolNet travel award (2026) · NULab grants (2022, 2025) · Northeastern Political Science travel awards (2022–2026)
Languages. Turkish (native) · English (fluent) · Arabic (intermediate, working proficiency)
The full record is in my CV (PDF).