About Me

I am a software engineering researcher interested in how people learn, practice, evaluate, and improve software testing. My research sits at the intersection of software testing, software engineering education, empirical software engineering, and AI-assisted development. I am especially interested in the human side of software engineering: how developers and students make testing decisions, how expertise is communicated, and how AI tools can support software engineering through human guidance.

I enjoy research as a collaborative process. Much of my work has grown out of discussions with students, developers, educators, and fellow researchers, and I am particularly fond of projects that connect empirical evidence with practical software engineering problems.

Background

I am a PhD candidate in the TU Delft Software Engineering Research Group, where I work with Andy Zaidman. My current work focuses on software testing expertise and on how testing is taught, practiced, evaluated, and supported by AI-assisted tools. Methodologically, I use mixed-method empirical research, including observational studies, surveys, interviews, repository mining, systematic mapping, thematic analysis, and controlled evaluations.

Before joining TU Delft, I completed my master’s degree in Computer Engineering at Bilkent University, where I worked with Eray Tüzün in the Bilkent University Software Engineering and Data Analytics Research Group (BILSEN). My master’s work focused on teaching code review practices to computer science students. To make room for this topic within existing software engineering courses, I designed and evaluated a serious game that simulates code review scenarios and allows students to practice reviewing code while learning the underlying concepts.

You can follow the evolution of these projects through my publications and research page.

Hobbies

My non-professional interests are mainly cooking and tabletop gaming. I find that cooking is a great place to improvise almost as much as DM’ing a game of DnD for friends.