Biography
Prior to joining Texas A&M University-San Antonio, I was an ORAU
senior fellow at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen
Proving Ground, Maryland. I have held faculty positions. I was
an associate professor at TOBB University of Economics and
Technology, Ankara, Turkey. I was an adjunct professor at Wayne
State University, Detroit, Michigan, in the Department of
Mathematics. I was an assistant professor at Louisiana State
University (LSU) in the Department of Mathematics and in the
Center for Computation & Technology. After I left LSU, I
continued to be a visiting assistant professor. My research has
been funded by National Science Foundation, European Commission
Marie Curie Program, and Scientific and Technological Research
Council of Turkey.
I held two postdoctoral positions. My first postdoc was at California Institute of Technology in the Department of Computing + Mathematical Sciences in the area of computer graphics with a focus on digital geometry processing in the Multi-Res Modeling Group. My second postdoc was at The University of Texas at Austin in the The Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences in the area of geosciences with a focus on robust preconditioning in The Computational Hydraulics Group and The Center for Subsurface Modeling.
I received my Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from University of
California, San Diego. I received my M.S. degree in Mathematics from
University of California, Irvine. I received a double major
B.S. degree in Mathematics and a B.S. degree in Science Education,
Mathematics Teaching from Middle East Technical University, Ankara,
Turkey.
Research interests
I work in the areas of numerical analysis, scientific computing, and numerical linear algebra. My research interests include:
- Nonlocal problems, peridynamics, local boundary conditions for nonlocal problems, preconditioning for peridynamics, scalable solvers for nonlocal problems,
- preconditioning, iterative solvers, numerical solutions to partial differential equations,
- multilevel preconditioning, multigrid, preconditioning under adaptive mesh refinement,
- robust preconditioning for high-contrast heterogeneous media,
- Krylov subspace solvers.
Research application areas
My research has been used to solve modeling and simulation problems in the application areas that include:
- Biophysics,
- Computer graphics,
- Geosciences,
- Numerical relativity,
- Solid mechanics.