Research interests Placement, replication, scheduling, mapping, clustering, declustering, partitioning, ordering, streaming, mining (basically combinatorial optimization) problems for possible improvements in performance, energy requirements, and cost. Currently working on elastic replicated data declustering, energy efficient datacenter design and job scheduling, scalable system and software discovery in datacenters, parallel Web crawling Previously Postdoc @ Yahoo Labs, Barcelona (2013 -- 2014) I was a postdoc at the Web Retrieval Team of Yahoo Labs, Barcelona, mainly working on user profile generation, entity suggestion, and ad CTR prediction. Company founder and partner @ Bor Software Inc. (2007 -- 2010) I was among the five founding partners of Bor Soft of Turkey. I worked as a managing partner between 2007 and 2010 within various projects including Web 2.0, mobile app., GIS systems, and content management systems development. I cashed out in 2010 to finish my PhD. PhD from Computer Engineering Dept. of Bilkent University (2012) Thesis title: Utilizing Query Logs for Data Replication and Placement in Big Data Applications