Grants, Honors & Awards

Grants and External Funding

PI, NSF Grant 2319157, "ATD: Stochastic Obstacle Scene Problem with Adversarial Agents", $300,000, 09/01/2023 - 08/31/2026
PI, Office of Naval Research (ONR) Grant N00014-22-1-2572, "Adversarial Risk Analysis for Optimal Obstacle Evasion", $358,000, 2022 - 2024.
Simons Collaboration Grant - 855850 , "Graph Theoretic Learning and Spatial Methods", $42,000, 2021 - 2026.
NSF Award DMS-1638521, Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute - SAMSI", $3,097,333 per year for three years, September 1, 2017 to August 31, 2020 (co-PI of the grant and Deputy Director of SAMSI, September 1, 2017 to 05/15/2019).
EU-FP7 Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship (€233,921 for two years, July 2013-July 2015).
TUBİTAK 1001 Grant, July 2012- July 2013.
TUBİTAK (Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council) Kariyer Grant, February 2008 - February 2011.

Featured in the "I benefited from a Marie Curie Action - IOF in the spotlight" section of the Marie Curie Alumni Association Newsletter No. 6 in May, 2015.
Complimentary/Supporting Membership to New York Academy of Sciences, 2015 - 2016.
Research Fellow at SAMSI, 2013-2014.
Funding (Travel & Accommodation) Support for the 4th International Conference of Young Scientists and Annual General Meeting of the Global Young Academy, Santiago, Chile, 21-25 May 2014.
Featured in the "Statistician Job of the Week" section of www.statistics2013.org as part of International Year of Statistics in the week of October 17, 2013.
Election to Global Young Academy, 2013-2018 (currently Alumni Member of GYA).
TWAS (The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World) Young Affiliate Fellow, 2012 - 2016.

Elected Member of ISI (International Statistical Institute), 2011 November - Present.
The article titled "Extension of one-dimensional proximity regions to higher dimensions. Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications, 43(9):721-748" is featured at The Vertical News (http://www.verticalnews.com/premium_newsletters/Journal-of-Technology-and-Science/2010-10-10/63483JTS.html )
Listed in the Marquis Who's Who in the World, 28-33rd editions (2010-2016).
Second Best Oral Presentation Award at the 30th National Radiology Congress, Antalya, Turkey, November 4-9, 2009.
European Science Foundation (ESF) scholarship for the IASC-ERS Summer school "Computational Aspects in Environmental Statistics", Pamporovo, Bulgaria, 2009.
Funding (Travel & Accommodation) Support for the 57th Session of the International Statistical Institute, Durban, South Africa, 2009; 59thWorld Statistics Congress, Hong Kong, China, 2013; 61stWorld Statistics Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2015.
Member, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, 1999 - Present.
Abel Wolman Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, 2000 - 2001.