His research interests are in computer vision and machine learning, with much of his recent activities focused on image editing, video and image collection summarization, and combining language and vision. Prior to joining Hacettepe University in 2010, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the Computer Science Department of Ca’Foscari University of Venice in Italy. He received his PhD degree in Computer Engineering from METU in 2008, and before that, he obtained his BSc and MSc degrees from the same institution in 2001 and 2003, respectively. During his PhD studies, he was a visiting researcher at Virginia Tech during Summer 2004 and a visiting scholar at MIT for Fall 2007.