• [2019-2020] I am looking for motivated undergraduate and graduate students working on different applications of topological data analysis on network datasets. If you are interested, send me an email or stop by my office.
• [Mar. 2019] Our project "Transformative influence of primary historical sources on teaching practices: A case study" received the Best Faculty Poster Presentation at the 2019 Transformative Learning conference!
• [Dec. 2018] Warren Keil presented his project "Topological Data Analysis of Attribute Networks using Diffusion Frechet Function with Ego-Networks" at the 7th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
• [Nov. 2017] Jason Papayik received the Best Poster Presentation at the CREIC Symposium with his project "Topological Data Analysis of Turkish Musical Makams". Congrats, Jason!

  I am an assistant professor and John T. Beresford Endowed Chair in Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Central Oklahoma. My research is on the applications of topological data analysis (TDA) in network science. Particularly, I am interetsed in using TDA in network matching and embedding problems and its applications in social, biological, chemical networks. I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Mathematics at the Florida State University, under the supervision of Eriko Hironaka. I recieved my MS in 2011 from Department of Mathematics at the Bilkent University working with Alex Degtyarev.