She obtained her B.Sc. and M.Sc from Sabanci University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering in 2007 and 2009, M.Sc. and Ph.D. from School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in 2012 and 2015. During her studies, in addition to Microsoft Turkey and Google, she also worked as a research visitor at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), Vanderbilt and Qatar Carnegie Mellon Universities. Her research interests include but not limited to Natural Language Processing, Text Mining, Information Retrieval, Social Media Analysis and Machine Translation.