He received his BS degree in electrical & electronics engineering and physics from Bogazici University in 2000, his PhD degree in applied & engineering physics from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY-USA in 2007. He was a post-doctoral fellow in Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, San Jose research labs under the supervision of Dr. Bruce Terris between 2007 and 2009. His research interests include nano-scale phase change memory device characterization and finite element modeling, three dimensional magnetic memory structures and spin transfer torque driven microwave oscillators and detectors.