His research in social media mining were published at ACM and IEEE conferences. He is currently the PI of an NSF Partnership for Innovation (PFI:BIC) grant focusing on behavioral analytics for detecting financial fraud and PI of a DoD Minerva Research Initiative project titled “New Analytics for Measuring and Countering Social Influence and Persuasion of Extremist Groups”. Davulcu holds a B.S. degree in mathematics from the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey and, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Stony Brook University, New York. He is co-founder of ARTIS Looking Glass, LLC -- a startup that focuses on the voices and perspectives of people and social movements in conflict areas as well as those of transnational groups.