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Teaching
Making abstract computer science tangible, inclusive, and a little bit joyful.
8 courses
3 universities
12+ mentees
2019–2025
- Excited to teach classes across NLP, large language models, sign language processing, AI ethics, computational neuroscience, and ML for medicine.
- Recorded full lectures on LLMs and on sign language processing, plus a shelf of paper-talk recordings.
- Taught 8 courses across Northeastern, Pitt, and CMU, from Intro to NLP to computer graphics and theory of computation.
- I teach with everyday metaphors, a democratic classroom, and “language before tools.”
- Gave invited guest lectures and mentored 12+ students.
News
Intellectual Tinkerings
Explorations, interactive experiments, and living documents.
A live 3D cell simulator where every statement of code compiles to a real transport itinerary through organelles — loops through the Golgi, function calls through the ribosome, garbage collection through the lysosome, all running on a real ATP budget.
An interactive visualization exploring how different cultures adapt and survive over time.
An interactive historical journey tracing the global botanical trade of tropical plants and their settlement in Turkish eco-brutalist apartments.
An interactive simulation tracing how ruling and vernacular languages diverged and converged across Anatolia, from the Hittite Empire to the late Ottoman era.
An interactive historical map tracing the lives and works of intellectuals in Anatolia, from ancient times to the present.
Books
Biological Modeling: A Short Tour
Philomath Press