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:

• February 16, 2023 – “AI FUTURES: An Interdisciplinary Conversation on Large Language Models and the Future of Human Writing” - Critical AI / Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey – Host: Professor Lauren Goodlad -Online Webinar
• November 10, 2022 - "Introduction to Language Studies" Professor Zehliha Babaci Wilhite- Speaker: Professor Robin Lakoff- Topic: WHO OWNS THE LANGUAGE? - Course in Class - UC Berkeley
• October 4, 2022 – “Statistical Information / Theory Application” – Professor Bin YU- Course in Class, UC Berkeley
• August 4, 2002 – “Summer Cluster: AI and Humanity” – Organized by Cornell University – Hosted by UC Berkeley Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing - Workshop – In Person
• August 1-3, 2002 – “Deep Learning Theory” UC Berkeley Simons Institute for the Theory of computing – Workshop – In Person: 

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

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

           3. Panel: Perspectives on Machine Learning and Statistics

• May 12, 2022 – “Adventures in Scrapism” - Critical AI / Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey – Host: Professor Lauren Goodlad - Online Webinar
• April 29, 2022 – “Datafied Ontologies –April 29, 2022” - Critical AI / Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey – Host: Professor Lauren Goodlad - Online Webinar

No recent courses taught.