Service

Research is one half of my working life. The other half is building what research needs: training institutes, workshop series, communities where people learn the same tools together, and the civic work that puts data to use. Most of it is unglamorous by design — curriculum, funding, logistics, and the slow craft of matching people to problems they can actually finish. What I teach inside these programs is on the Teaching page; this page is the organizing side.

Communities & Programs

• SICSS-Istanbul — Co-founder & Co-organizer · four editions (2019, 2020, 2021, 2023). After attending SICSS-Helsinki in 2018, I helped bring the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science to Istanbul — with Matti Nelimarkka and Akın Ünver, sponsored by the Russell Sage and Alfred P. Sloan Foundations — training roughly twenty early-career researchers per edition: teaching assistant at the first edition, on the organizing committee from 2020, and back as guest lecturer in 2026. I wrote about building it for SAGE Research Methods.
• BLISS — Boston LLMs Initiative for Social Sciences — Co-founder & Lead · 2025–present, with Burak Ozturan. A NULab-funded initiative bringing LLM methods to social scientists. Its first season, November 2025: a faculty panel — Computational Social Sciences in the Age of Generative AI, with David Lazer, Tina Eliassi-Rad, Nick Beauchamp, and Beatrice Magistro — and two hands-on workshops, Transformers by Hand and Hugging Face & APIs for LLM Use. → bliss.boston
• Twitter Developers Community (Istanbul–Boston) — Community Lead · 2021–2023. A practitioner community around the academic use of the Twitter API, in the years before the platform closed off research access.

Civic Data Consulting

→ BARI, 2023–2025: Data & Code

Peer Review

I review for International Studies Perspectives and the International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2).

Writing for the public and the press is under Public Scholarship.