Currently Senior Scientist at Caltech's Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences.
Affiliate Fellow at the Data Science Institute, Imperial College London.
External Researcher at the Alan Turing Institute (London, UK).
Twice awarded Marie Curie Fellowships—at Imperial College London, and at Yıldız Technical University and Koç University (Istanbul, Turkey).
Former Temporary Assistant Professor at University of Paris-Sud/Orsay.
Former INRIA Research Fellow.
Former Research Assistant Professor at UC Davis (CA).
Held research positions at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (Berkeley), Duke University, and the Fields Institute (Toronto).
Most recently served as Visiting Professor at Johns Hopkins University.
Co-leads the 'Machine Learning and Dynamical Systems' Research Interest Group (RIG) at the Alan Turing Institute with Prof. Robert Mackay.
Co-organizer of the 'One World Seminar Series on the Mathematics of Machine Learning'.
Background
A mathematician embodying a modern-day peripatetic, having extensively traversed the global academic world.
Central research question: How can complex systems be effectively analyzed?
Research approaches span three key areas: Dynamical Systems Theory (DST), Machine Learning (ML), and Algorithmic Information Theory (AIT).
Early research focused on the 'Dynamical Theory of Control', integrating dynamical systems theory and control theory, especially for systems with bifurcations.
Current research interests lie at the intersection of Machine Learning, Dynamical Systems, and Algorithmic Information Theory.