About

I am a EE PhD candidate at Stanford and consider myself extremely lucky to be advised by Professor Stephen Boyd. My research is on convex optimization with a focus on developing customized solvers.

I completed my bachelors in electrical and electronics engineering at Boğaziçi University, where I was admitted after ranking 1st among ~2 million students in LYS 2016. In undergrad, I worked on early cancer detection with Professor Utkan Demirci. I also got involved in computer vision and foundation models during PhD rotations.

Teaching

I am very excited to be a TA for Stephen Boyd’s EE364A:Convex Optimization I class this summer! If you are studying the material in the book or in additional exercises please do not hesitate to reach out to me so that we can think together. You can find coding tutorials on CVXPY.

My previous teaching experience at Stanford include:

CS224W:Machine Learning with Graphs (Fall 2021)
CS236G:Generative Adversarial Networks (Winter 2021)

Papers

Papers not related to convex optimization are accessible via Google Scholar. Some of my illustrations have been chosen as journal covers in the past:

Advanced Materials, Vol 32, Issue 8, February 20, 2020 which was also a finalist in Art of Science 2021.
Advanced Materials, Vol 32, Issue 19, May 14, 2020
Advanced Biosystems, Vol 4, Issue 6, June, 2020

Contact

You can contact me at giray98@stanford.edu if you have any questions.