She holds a BSc degree from Trakya University (2008), MSc degree from RWTH Aachen (2010) and a PhD degree from University of Grenoble (2014). After completing her PhD at the INRIA Rhone Alpes with Prof. Dr. Cordelia Schmid in collaboration with Dr. Florent Perronnin from XRCE, she worked as a Post-doc at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics with Prof. Dr. Bernt Schiele and a visiting Post-doc with Prof Trevor Darrell at UC Berkeley. Her research interests include machine learning with applications to computer vision, such as zero-shot learning, multimodal deep learning with generative models that combine vision and language and explainable artificial intelligence (XAI).