I employ computational and experimental methods to study how domestic politics and emerging technologies shape international security and foreign policy. 

My research focuses on strategic decision-making in international security, with two core strands. First, I examine how domestic political forces, particularly public opinion, polarization, and audience costs, influence foreign policy behavior. My dissertation analyzes these dynamics using survey experiments, which is supported by the Institute of Humane Studies at George Mason University. In my MA thesis, I examined leaders and foreign policy decision-making within the Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) tradition. 

Second, I study the geopolitical implications of emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence and semiconductors. In this area, I analyze how technological competition and dependence reshape state behavior, coercion, and alignment, drawing on computational text analysis, network analysis and original datasets.

I am an alumnus of the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods, organized by the University of Michigan; the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science - Istanbul and Hertie School Data Science Lab, Data Science Summer School based in Germany.

My work has been published or is forthcoming in International Political Science Review, International Relations, and edited volumes from Routledge, Springer, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History and Wiley. I have also contributed policy analysis on regional energy security and conflict dynamics for think tanks and research institutions.

I have also reviewed articles for Political Research Quarterly, Global Studies Quarterly, and International Politics.

I am a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where I am a recipient of the UWM Chancellor's Award. I hold M.A. and B.A. degrees in International Relations from Bilkent University in Turkey.