I believe a teacher is one who has a sound judgment of students' knowledge and is able to look at things from students' perspectives while neither overwhelming students with too much information nor providing them with inadequate knowledge. A successful teacher should be one who does his best to create several open communication channels to be able to interact with students efficiently and bridge any obstacle on the way.
Teaching and Advising
Teaching Instructor
(2020-Present)
Up to now, I have attended a number of classes as a teaching instructor and I have received acceptable and positive reviews from my students and colleagues and I believe the evaluation of students' learning outcomes is the most appropriate criterion in examining a teacher's success.
Student Feedback
Department of Industrial Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
Undergraduate Courses:
Engineering Economic Analysis
A Process Outlook for Industrial Engineering
Reinforcement Learning and Dynamic Programming
Postgraduate Courses:
Reinforcement Learning and Dynamic Programming
Data Science and AI Division, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Introduction to Data Science and AI
Applied Machine Learning
School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago
Exposure Assessment Strategies (guest lecturer covering statistical analyses of exposure data and Bayesian statistics)
Teaching Assistant
(2013-2020)
Among the courses for which I was an assistant, a challenge was the recitation sessions I had for the course entitled Introduction to Modeling and Optimization. In a large class of more than 120 students, my biggest potential enemy was the weak interaction I could have with the students. I realized that reaching out to each one of those students would be impossible. So, I adapted my teaching strategy and decided to discuss and solve the questions in an amphitheater using an iPad, partly because this would enable students to follow the lectures more efficiently. But, mostly because I could face the students and move around while teaching enabling me to exploit the benefits of eye contact, which I believe is the most important non-verbal communication factor in a class and should not be underestimated. Moreover, the class was recorded so the students who had trouble with note-taking or needed to review the materials, had the ability to re-watch the lectures and look up anything they were unsure of or may have missed in the class. These recordings are available below:
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Istanbul Sehir University, Turkey
Undergraduate Courses:
Computer Skills
Data Mining
Life Sciences I: Chemistry
Postgraduate Courses:
Data Mining
Department of Industrial Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
Undergraduate Courses:
Introduction to Modeling and Optimization
Stochastic Models
Energy Systems Planning
Engineering Economic Analysis
Postgraduate Courses:
Mathematics of Operations Research
Probabilistic Analysis
Advising
Data Science and AI Division, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Department of Industrial Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
Modeling and Optimization of the Personnel Bus Routes for Transportation Services of Bilkent University (2021) Senior Project Supervising Gökhan Akkaya, Aslı Sena Akyurt, Mustafa Kaan Çoban, Hasan Kağan Gürbüz, Ezgi Can Kılıç, and Batuhan Tavşan.
Risk-Averse Multi-Armed Bandit Problem with Multiple Plays: A Markovian Bandit Solution (2023) Master's Thesis Supervising Siri Dahlgren and Nicholas Marriott.
Feature Selection for Microarray Data via Stochastic Approximation (2023) Master's Thesis Supervising Erik Rosvall.