Prior to joining Texas A&M University-San Antonio, I was an ORAU senior fellow at the 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.

Member of the Editorial Board: Journal of Peridynamics and Nonlocal Modeling, Springer

Member of the Editorial Board: Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, Wiley

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Plenary Speaker ENUMATH2015 Conference

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.