Hello! I'm Mert.

Mert has joined Visa Research as a full-time research scientist. He will be working on real-time payment fraud detection and graph neural networks. He has moved to Austin from Santa Barbara for this position. [Read More]

After successfully defending his PhD thesis and graduation ceremony, Mert has officially graduated from UCSB! He is now a doctor of philosophy in Computer Science.

Mert has successfully defended his PhD dissertation on June 7th, 2023. The title of his dissertation is “Transparent Representation Learning for Graphs and Human-AI Collaboration”. The committee members are Prof. Ambuj Singh, Prof. Francesco Bullo, Prof. Xifeng Yan. You can find the abstract of the dissertation below, and full dissertation... [Read More]

Mert is delighted to announce that their paper “Global Counterfactual Explainer for Graph Neural Networks” is selected among the top 10 papers of WSDM 2023 Conference and the best paper at Machine Learning on Graphs (MLoG) workshop. [Read More]

Mert’s work on feedback loop active learning is accepted to Crowd Science WSDM 2023! The conference will be held in Singapore. You can find more information about the project in finished project.