CV

Education

• Ph.D in Data Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 2024 - present
• M.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, 2021 - 2024
• B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 2015 - 2021

Work experience

• September 2024 - Present: Graduate Research Assistant in New Jersey Institute of Technology
  • Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Akshay Rangamani
• September 2021 - August 2024: Research and Teaching Assistant in Istanbul Technical University
  • Teaching assistant for the following courses: BLG212E Microprocessor Systems, BLG222E Computer Organization, BLG231E Digital Circuits, BLG322E Computer Architecture, BLG351E Microcomputer Laboratory, YZV231E Probability and Statistics for Data Science
  • Mentor for undergraduate students in ITU Vision Lab: Talha Sezer Cakir & Emircan Gundogdu.
  • Supervisor: Prof. Gozde Unal

Selected Publications

An Illusion of Unlearning? Assessing Machine Unlearning Through Internal Representations

Gao, Y., Unal, A., Rangamani, A., & Zhu, Z. (2026). An Illusion of Unlearning? Assessing Machine Unlearning Through Internal Representations. arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.08271.

Deep Neural Repression Collapse

Rangamani, A., Unal, A. (2026, March). Deep Neural Regression Collapse. In Third Conference on Parsimony and Learning (CPAL 2026).

A Study Regarding Machine Unlearning on Facial Attribute Data

Gündoğdu, E., Unal, A., & Unal, G. (2024, May). A Study Regarding Machine Unlearning on Facial Attribute Data. In 2024 IEEE 18th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG) (pp. 1-5). IEEE.

Meta Continual Learning on Graphs with Experience Replay

Unal, A., Akgül, A., Kandemir, M., & Unal, G. Meta Continual Learning on Graphs with Experience Replay. Transactions on Machine Learning Research.