EDUCATION
Associate Prof. Economics, Awarded by the Turkish Higher Education Committee (YÖK) , 2004
Assistant Prof. Economics, Bilkent University 1990
Ph.D., Economics, University of Utah 1989
BS. in Management, Boğaziçi University 1977

FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION
Macroeconomic policy games, Dynamic games, Evolutionary computational methods, Economic growth

PUBLICATIONS
• "A Genetic Game of Trade, Growth and Externalities ", with Süheyla Özyildirim, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 22 (6) (1998), 811-832.
• "Learning the Optimum as a Nash Equilibrium ", with Süheyla Özyildirim, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 24 (4) (2000), 483-499.
• "Knowledge Spillover, Transboundary Pollution and Growth ", with Süheyla Özyildirim, Oxford Economic Papers 54 (4) (2002), 597-616.
• "On-line Computation of Stackelberg Equilibria with Synchronous Parallel Genetic Algorithms", with Sibel Sirakaya ,  Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 27(8) (2003), 1503 - 1515. (Abstract )
• "Genetic Neural Networks to Approximate Feedback Nash Equilibria in Dynamic Games", with Sibel Sirakaya,  Computers and Mathematics with Applications Vol 46/10-11 (2003), 1493-1509. (Abstract) 
• "Optimal Time Aggregation of Infinite Horizon Control Problems", with Sibel Sirakaya and Farhad Hüsseinov, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Volume 30, Issue 4, Pages 569-593
•"Feedback Approximation of the Stochastic Growth Model by Genetic Neural Networks", with S. Sirakaya and S. Turnovsky, Computational Economics, vol. 27, pp. 185-206 (2006).
•"Economic Growth, Trade, and Environmental Quality in a Two-country World Economy", with S. Sırakaya and S. Turnovsky, Review of International Economics (Forthcoming)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Assistant Professor, Bilkent University, Department of Economics, 9/1990-present
Visiting Associate Professor,Univ. of Washington, Dept. of Economics, 2/2005-8/2005
Visiting Associate Professor, University of Utah, Dept. of Economics, 9/1999-6/2000