Work

Research projects, from optimization models to machine learning, and the tools I build on the side.

Research & projects

Optimization and machine learning for energy and chemical systems.

  • Hydrogen in the water–⁠energy–⁠food nexus (external link)

    Published

    A two-stage stochastic MILP that chooses and sizes a Power-to-X plant, then runs it hour by hour under uncertain renewables. Planning for that uncertainty is worth $12.9M a year over a deterministic design.

    International Journal of Hydrogen Energy · Talk at MaCKiE 2025 (external link)

    • Stochastic MILP
    • Power-to-X
    • Hydrogen
    • Gurobi
    2026
  • PEM electrolyzer stack, assembled and exploded isometric view A proton-exchange-membrane electrolyzer cell, shown clamped (plates flush on the membrane, tie rods inside the stack, nuts tight on the top end plate) and pulled apart along four tie rods at one even spacing, with dashed axes running port to port through three manifolds: the bottom end plate with the water inlet feeding the water manifold, a bipolar plate whose pixel serpentine flow field runs from the water port to the oxygen-and-water port through short feed channels, while the hydrogen port is sealed off by its own O-ring, the membrane electrode assembly, a second bipolar plate, and the top end plate carrying the oxygen outlet on the anode manifold and the hydrogen outlet on the cathode manifold, where bubbles rise at a two-to-one hydrogen-to-oxygen ratio. O₂ OUTH₂ OUTTIE RODMEMBRANE (MEA)END PLATEH₂O INBIPOLAR PLATE░▒▓ 2H₂O → 2H₂ + O₂
    PEM electrolyzer stack, exploded: end plates, bipolar plates, membrane electrode assembly, H₂ and O₂ outlets.

  • Catalysis, machine learning and optimization

    Active

    My M.Sc. research, where catalyst performance meets machine learning and mathematical optimization: learned models of how catalysts behave, used inside process decisions.

    • Catalysis
    • Machine learning
    • Optimization
    2026–

  • MINERVA

    Won

    Mine Identification and Evaluation via Remote Vision Analytics: remote sensing and computer vision to find and assess mines. Co-built at ETH Zurich’s “Beyond the Visible” summer school; the team was invited to Zurich by ESA.

    1st Prize · Venture Sprint

    • Remote sensing
    • Computer vision
    • Earth observation
    2026

  • ForeWatt (external link)

    Open source

    Electricity demand forecasting on Turkish (EPİAŞ) and US (PJM) grid data with N-HiTS and PatchTST, conformal intervals for the uncertainty, anomaly detection, and EV load shifting on top.

    • Time series
    • Conformal prediction
    • Anomaly detection
    • Optimization
    2025–26

  • Green ammonia production (external link)

    Awarded

    Our senior design project: a carbon-free ammonia plant run on its own wind and solar farm, with water electrolysis, air separation, hydrogen storage and an optimized Haber–⁠Bosch loop. It won the first KUOS Sustainability Award for engineering graduation projects.

    Senior design project, Koç University · team of five, advised by Asst. Prof. Erdal Aydın

    Winner · KUOS Sustainability Award

    • Process design
    • Haber–Bosch
    • Electrolysis
    • Decarbonization
    2025

  • Fewer paint changeovers at Hyundai

    Done

    A summer with IT, chemical and industrial engineers on a PyTorch model and a Gurobi optimization that cut paint color changeovers under real production constraints.

    Production IT Intern · Hyundai Assan Otomotiv

    • PyTorch
    • Gurobi
    • Scheduling
    2024

Tools

Tools for the Mac and iPhone, mostly built because I wanted them myself. None is out yet.

SnapLayouts

Building

Windows 11-style snap layouts for the Mac. Drag a window to the top of the screen, drop it on a zone, and Snap Assist offers your other windows for the rest.

SwiftUI · Liquid Glass · macOS 26+

  • macOS
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Seemantic

Building

A study and research companion for papers. Read with dark and sepia themes, keep highlights in sync with Zotero, and lasso a figure or an equation to ask about it, using the AI subscriptions you already have.

SwiftUI · PDFKit · macOS 27+

  • macOS
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Quotlas

Building

Sourced quotes from science, film, music, literature and philosophy, connected into a graph. Start from Feynman and a few cards later you are reading Tarkovsky, each card saying how you got there. Fully on device, no account.

SwiftUI · WidgetKit · SQLite

  • iOS
  • watchOS
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