He received his BSc in mathematics from Bogazici University (Istanbul, Turkey), his MSc in economics from Istanbul Bilgi University (Istanbul, Turkey), and MStat in statistics and PhD in economics from Rice University. His teaching and research interests include applied econometrics, industrial organization, and social choice theory. His specific interests are productivity analysis (Stochastic Frontier Analysis), market power analysis, and price discrimination. At the moment his favorite programming language is Matlab.