He received the B.S. degree in international relations from Ege University, ̇Izmir, Turkey, and the M.Phil. degree in international relations from the National Defence University, Islamabad, Pakistan. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in computer and information sciences with the Uni- versity of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR, USA.
In 2019, he was a Visiting Research Fellow with the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence, Riga, Latvia, and a Cyber Policy. Fellow with the Robert Bosch Foundation GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany, and the Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies, Istanbul, Turkey. His research interests include computational propaganda, social cybersecurity, computational conflict research, machine behavior, and algorithmic bias.