Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), working in the CORAL Lab with Prof. Tim Oates. My research focuses on computer vision, multimodal learning, and AI for accessibility and the environment. Current work includes LLM- and vision-language-model-based indoor navigation for people with blindness or low vision, vision-language models for early wildfire detection from satellite imagery, and deep learning for medical image analysis. Earlier work covered knowledge distillation and model compression for edge devices, graph autoencoders, and cell segmentation in label-free microscopy images, including research at Vodafone FutureLab and Arcelik. I hold an M.S. in Computer Science (UMBC) and an M.Sc. in Applied Informatics (Istanbul Technical University).