research

Research experience, talks and poster presentations.

Research experience

Graduate Researcher, Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University 2022 – present

  • Developing Mayer path homology, a homology theory for directed graphs and path complexes built on N-nilpotent (Mayer) chain complexes, together with its persistent version.
  • Computing topological features in Python (GUDHI, NumPy, PyTorch) and combining them with graph neural networks for molecular, dynamical and engineering data.

Research Mentor, Topology RTG, Michigan State University May – June 2023

M.S. thesis, Middle East Technical University 2019 – 2021

  • A Survey on Multidimensional Persistence Theory, advised by Assoc. Prof. Semra Pamuk.

Talks

  • Mayer Path Homology. TDA Seminar, Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering (CMSE), Michigan State University.
  • Mayer Homology and Applications. Invited lecture, AI in Mathematics course, Michigan State University.
  • Intersection Homology and Applications. Invited lecture, AI in Mathematics course, Michigan State University.
  • From Data to Barcodes. Graduate Student Seminar, Middle East Technical University, April 2021.

Poster presentations

  • SIAM Great Lakes Section Meeting, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, September 2025.
  • Mathematics of Data, Dynamics, and Life Sciences Conference, University of California, Irvine, March 2025.

Selected conferences and workshops attended

  • AI, Data and PDE Workshop, Michigan State University, April 2025
  • Graduate Student Topology and Geometry Conference, Michigan State University, April 2024
  • Mid-Atlantic Topology Conference, Northeastern University, March 2024
  • SIAM Great Lakes Section Meeting, Michigan State University, October 2023
  • Computational Persistence, Purdue University, September 2023
  • Randomness in Topology and its Applications, IMSI, Chicago, March 2023