CV

Doctoral Researcher

Harvard University

Led research, data analysis, writing, and communication projects across linguistics and human communication.

Generative Model Evaluator - Intern

Mercor.co

As a part of Project Elephant, contributed to LLM training and evaluation through domain-specific human-in-the-loop evaluation frameworks.

Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies, Teaching and Pedagogy Fellow

Harvard University

Supported program planning, curriculum coordination, teaching, pedagogy workshops, and learner feedback analysis.

PhD

Harvard University

Linguistics

• Dissertation: Manner Modification Across Modalities: Insights from Gesture, Sign, and Spoken Language
• Committee: Kathryn Davidson, Jonathan David Bobaljik, and Kathryn Franich

MA

Boğaziçi University

Linguistics

• Thesis: The Impact of Age of Acquisition on Structure: A Study on Alignment in Turkish Sign Language
• Advisor: Kadir Gökgöz

BA

Boğaziçi University

Translation and Interpreting Studies

Classifiers, Argument Expression, and Age of Acquisition Effects in Turkish Sign Language

Sign Language & Linguistics

26(1). doi: 10.1075/sll.21006.sev

Aspects of clause structure and morphology in Turkish Sign Language

In Gürer, Aslı, Dilek Uygun-Gökmen and Balkız Öztürk (Eds.). Morphological Complexity within and across Boundaries. John Benjamins Publishing Company.

doi.org/slcs.215.12gok

Null arguments in Turkish Sign Language

In Gürer, Aslı, Dilek Uygun-Gökmen and Balkız Öztürk (Eds.). Morphological Complexity within and across Boundaries. John Benjamins Publishing Company.

doi.org/10.1075/slcs.215.14kay

One root to build them all: Roots in sign language classifiers

Proceedings of WCCFL

39(2), 393–400

Age of acquisition effects in zero-anaphora comprehension in Turkish Sign Language

Proceedings of Boston University Conference on Language Development

48(2), pp. 481–493

Plural Possession in Turkish and Sakha

Proceedings of the Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic

7(1), pp. 73–87

Verb doubling in Turkish: Evidence from Trabzon dialect

Proceedings of the Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic

6(1)

Dissertation Completion Fellowship

Harvard University

Fall 2024 – Spring 2025

Mind, Brain, and Behavior Graduate Student Award

Harvard University

$5000

Student Recognition of Teaching

Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Awarded for Ling 98A, Tutorial Head Instructor Fall 2022

Certificate of Distinction in Teaching

Harvard University

Awarded for Ling 83, Spring 2022 and Ling 104, Fall 2021