BSc from the Civil Engineering Dept. of Istanbul Technical University. MSc and PhD from the Civil Engineering Dept., UC-Davis. Postdoctoral Researcher at the LAWR Dept., UC-Davis from 1993 to 1995. He has been a faculty member at IZTECH since 1995. He worked as a visiting scholar at the LSU from 2004 to 2005 and at the University of Mississippi from 2007 to 2008. He has authored more than 90 peer reviewed journal papers and published two books. He is Associate Editor of the JH and Water Resources Management journal. His research has involved the numerical modeling of surface and subsurface flows, sediment transport, floods, droughts, dam breaks, transport in surface and subsurface flows, and the application of artificial intelligence methods (ANNs, FL, GAs) in hydrological, hydraulics, and water resources engineering problems.