Hi!
I'm a 25yo Civil Engineer from Izmir, Turkey. This is my personal website where I'll be sharing my personal views on transportation, engineering in general and also, my hobbies such as gaming, movies and music.
It was a pleasure for me to play computer games like Transport Tycoon or SimCity when I was younger; coming to a realization that what I used to get higher scores in those games actually have resulted from me questioning which lane goes faster in a congested highway, which train signalization results in lowest delays or which route to take to achieve the lowest travel times. Learning how many variables these everyday problems included was an amusement for me and led me to enroll for transportation-related courses during my undergraduate years.
After becoming more involved with the field as a Research Assistant for Prof. Ilgin Gokasar at Bogazici University, I wanted to learn more. For this, I moved to the US, and I'm gonna get my M.S. degree from Northwestern University in December 2012. During my time at Northwestern, I tried to widen my scope by wandering into different fields within Transportation such as Public Policy, Air Transportation and Behavior Modelling. My main research interests stayed the same during this period, focusing on Macroscopic Traffic Flow Theories on which I have worked with Prof. Yu (Marco) Nie.
If you would like to take a closer look at my resume, you can find it here.
Also, you can use the form below if you would like to contact me.
Photo credits for main page (The ones I was able to track the source):
- Ryu Ho-Yeol, http://www.homato.com
- Ben L, http://benandhislens.wordpress.com
- Mladen Kesic http://mladenkesic.wordpress.com/