I studied mechanical engineering at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Türkiye. It was there that I truly learned the first principles of our universe and engineering.
Outside of coursework, I was very involved in sports. I spent the summers of 2019 and 2020 as a windsurfing instructor in Alaçatı.
I was also captain of the Boğaziçi University Ski Team in 2022-2023, after serving as co-captain for the four years before that. We competed in intercollegiate ski races across Türkiye and won multiple cups in different disciplines.
I graduated with a 3.80/4.00 GPA, ranking 3rd among 64 students, and was honored to receive the 2023 Rector’s Award and the 2023 Sports Achievement Award.
During my studies, I also spent a semester abroad at the University of Texas at Austin in Fall 2021. Right after graduation, I joined CERN as a technical student.
Along the way, I worked on a number of projects:
- Dynamometer for High-Speed, Low-Torque Motors (2023)
- Ion-Thruster Simulation (2022)
- Vibration Transmissibility Optimization (2022)
- Ray Tracing with Vanilla C++ (2021)
- Teaching on YouTube (2020)
- Guitar Tuner with DC Motors (2020)
I also interned at a few places:
- Turkish Aerospace Industries (Summer 2022): I worked on the final assembly line of the TAI Hürjet, a supersonic jet aircraft, where I learned how pieces are bolted together to make an aircraft.
- Simularge (Summer 2022): I wrote software to automate finite-element simulations of deep drawing using CalculiX.
- Aselsan (Summer 2021): I ran computational vibration simulations on a truss structure under development.