I am a Ph.D. candidate in
Political Science and
Social Data Analytics
at the Pennsylvania State University. I have previously studied at
Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany and at Bogazici University
in Istanbul, Turkey.
I study political elites using network theory. Networks enable the study of actors in relation to other actors; who each actor has access to, what the competing factions are, and how centralized a system is. I use Wikidata, a collaborative, machine readable knowledge base, as a source of data on different groups of elite actors
I am also interested in misinformation and its spread in social media and the preservation of the integrity of data in projects like Wikipedia and Wikidata. To learn more about me, you can visit my Research, Teaching, and CV pages.