Teaching

Across appointments in Turkey and the United States I have taught undergraduate and graduate courses since 2016.

Current courses

University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Adjunct Professor

• DATA 101Data Knowledge and DiscoveryFall 2026
• AI 595AI Apps for Drone OperationsFall 2026

Past courses

Before UT Knoxville I taught at Istanbul Commerce University, Boğaziçi University and İstanbul Bilgi University, between 2016 and 2024. The courses ranged from introductory programming, data structures and algorithms to compiler design, computer and wireless networks, network security and cryptography, information theory, embedded and digital system design, image processing, and the Internet of Things.

Student advising

I advised two doctoral dissertations: A. Gökcen (2025), on training models on edge devices with federated learning, and E. Y. Güven (2023), on cyber threat intelligence. I also advised thirteen master’s theses between 2018 and 2023, on machine learning applications, IoT and network security, and mobile and vehicular networks.