Since October 4th, 2021, I have been a visiting research scholar at the English Department, the University of California, Berkeley. My academic advisor is Professor Ian Duncan.

I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Tübingen, Germany.

Prior to my Ph.D., for seventeen years I taught academic English at Middle East Technical University, a top university in Ankara, Turkey.

Ph.D. in English Literature: “The Notion of the Present in Leslie Scalapino’s and Virginia Woolf’s Works,” Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

https://publikationen.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/handle/10900/87336

Master of Science in English Literature: “Caryl Churchill and Gender Roles: Owners, Cloud Nine, Top Girls,” Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12606786/index.pdf

Blog: ON DATAFIED ONTOLOGIES: DATA ONTOLOGIES WORKSHOP #5: GAVIN J.D. SMITH AND LORI MOON ON DATAFIED ONTOLOGIES

                                  https://criticalai.org/2022/05/10/data-ontologies-workshop-5-on-datafied-ontologies/

 Humanity and Literature in the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Webinars, Workshops, and Courses attended:

• April 28, 2023-Online Lecture: Exploration and Exploitation: Different Ways of Pushing AI and Robotics Forward

  Speaker: Rodney Brooks (The Panasonic Professor of Robotics, MIT) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtUhGzFK4l8

• April 27, 2023-Webinar: Effective Science Communication

  Speakers: Elena and Martin R. Lichtenthaler (mightyreal.de) - Host: UC Berkeley,VSPA Events Departmental - https://vspa.berkeley.edu/

• April 26, 2023- Lecture: Generative AI Meets Copyright

  Speaker: Pamela Samuelson (Faculty of Law, UC Berkeley) - Location: UC Berkeley - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sDGIrVO6mo

• April 19, 20,21, 2023-Lecture: Cosmopolities Before, Behind, and Beyond the State.

  Speaker: Anthropologist Phillipe Descola (Collège de France)

  Commentators: Adom Getachew (University of Chicago), Timothy LeCain (Montana University), and David Wengrow (University College, London)-UC Berkeley

  Host and Location: The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, UC Berkeley

  https://events.berkeley.edu/gradiv/event/129795-cosmopolities-before-behind-and-beyond-the-state

  https://events.berkeley.edu/gradiv/event/129796-cosmopolities-before-behind-and-beyond-the-state

• April 19, 2023-Lecture: How AI Fails US, and How Economics Can Help

  Speaker: Michael Jordan (EECS, UC Berkeley) - Location: UC Berkeley - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUUv8KCZrkM

• April 17, 2023 – Course:  Designing Your Life in The United States

  Speaker: Rita Brown - Host: UC Berkeley, VSPA Events Departmental - https://vspa.berkeley.edu/

•  April 13, 2023 – Workshop: Broder Impacts 101- NFS Grant Writing Workshop

  Instructor; Dione L. Rossiter, Ph.D (Executive Director, Science at Cal, UC Berkeley) - Host: UC Berkeley, VSPA Events Departmental - https://vspa.berkeley.edu/

• April 12, 2023-Lecture: Reinforcement Learning with Large Database: a path to resourceful Autonomous Agents

  Speaker: Sergey Levine (EECS, UC Berkeley) - Location: UC Berkeley - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wraCgn27kVA

• April 6, 2023-Webinar: Victorian “Artificial Intelligence”: A Call to Arms

  Speakers: Lauren M.E. Goodlad (Rutgers), Pamela K. Gilbert (University of Florida), Sophia Hsu (CUNY, Lehman), Meredith Martin (Princton), Anand Sarwate (Rutgers) - Location: - Rutgers British Studies Center and Critical AI @ Rutgers- https://sites.rutgers.edu/critical-ai/event-details/

• April 5, 2023 - Lecture: How Not to Destroy the World With AI

  Speaker: Stuart Russell (EECS, UC Berkeley) - Location: UC Berkeley - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISkAkiAkK7A

• April 4, 2023 - Lecture: Building Human Intelligence at Scale, to Save the Next Generation from ChatGPT

  Speaker: Po-Shen Loh (Carnegie Mellon University) - Location: UC Berkeley, The Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing -                     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO-akX66i24

• February 16, 2023 – Webinar: “AI FUTURES: An Interdisciplinary Conversation on Large Language Models and the Future of Human Writing” - Host: Professor Lauren Goodlad - Location: Rutgers British Studies Center and Critical AI @ Rutgers -  https://sites.rutgers.edu/critical-ai/event-details/

• November 10, 2022 - Seminar: WHO OWNS THE LANGUAGE?                                                                                                                       

 Speaker: Professor Robin Lakoff - Host: Professor Zehliha Babaci Wilhite in her Course "Introduction to Language Studies" – Location:  UC Berkeley

• October 4, 2022 – “Statistical Information / Theory Application”

Speaker and Host: Professor Bin YU- Location: Course in Class, UC Berkeley

• August 4, 2002 – “Summer Cluster: AI and Humanity”

Organized by Cornell University – Host and location: UC Berkeley Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing - Workshop – In Person

• August 1-3, 2002 – Workshop: “Deep Learning Theory” UC Berkeley Simons Institute for the Theory of computing - In Person: 

           1. Tutorial: Statistical Learning Theory, Optimization, and Neural Networks

           2. The Devil is in the Tails and Other Stories of Interpolation

           3. Panel: Perspectives on Machine Learning and Statistics

• May 12, 2022 – Webinar: “Adventures in Scrapism”

Host: Professor Lauren Goodlad – Location: Rutgers British Studies Center and Critical AI @Rutgers - https://sites.rutgers.edu/critical-ai/event-details/

• April 29, 2022 – Webinar: “Datafied Ontologies”

Host: Professor Lauren Goodlad - Location: Rutgers British Studies Center and Critical AI @ Rutgers - https://sites.rutgers.edu/critical-ai/event-details/

No recent courses taught.