I am a third-year PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. I am advised by Dr. Gauri Joshi and Dr. Carlee Joe-Wong. My research interest broadly lies in distributed optimization, machine learning, and federated learning.

I graduated as the valedictorian from my undergraduate studies in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bilkent University where I was fortunate to work with Dr. Tolga Cukur on the deep learning applications in medical imaging.

Here is a link to my CV.

Publications

• FedAST: Federated Asynchronous Simultaneous Training
  B. Askin, P. Sharma, C. Joe-Wong, G. Joshi
  The Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 2024 Link Code Poster

• Federated Communication-Efficient Multi-Objective Optimization
  B. Askin, P. Sharma, G. Joshi, C. Joe-Wong
  Preprint Link

  Studies on deep learning applications in medical imaging while I was at Bilkent:

• DEQ-MPI: A Deep Equilibrium Reconstruction with Learned Consistency for Magnetic Particle Imaging
  A. Güngör, B. Askin, D. A. Soydan, C. B. Top, E. U. Saritas, T. Çukur
  IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Aug. 2023 Link Code

• A Denoiser Scaling Technique for Plug-and-Play MPI Reconstruction
  A. Güngör, B. Askin, D. A. Soydan, E. U. Saritas, C. B. Top, T. Çukur
  International Journal on Magnetic Particle Imaging (IJMPI), Vol 9 No 1 Suppl 1, Mar. 2023 Link

• PP-MPI: A Deep Plug-and-Play Prior for Magnetic Particle Imaging Reconstruction
  B. Askin, A. Güngör, D. A. Soydan, E. U. Saritas, C. B. Top, T. Çukur
  International Workshop on Machine Learning for Medical Image Reconstruction (MLMIR), 2022 Link

• TranSMS: Transformers for Super-Resolution Calibration in Magnetic Particle Imaging
  A. Güngör, B. Askin, D. A. Soydan, E. U. Saritas, C. B. Top, T. Çukur
  IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, July 2022 Link Code

• Deep Learned Super Resolution of System Matrices for Magnetic Particle Imaging
  A. Güngör, B. Askin, D. A. Soydan, C. B. Top, T. Çukur
  2021 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), 2021 Link

• A CNN Based Super-Resolution Technique for Magnetic Particle Imaging System Matrix
  B. Askin, A. Güngör, D. A. Soydan, C. B. Top, T. Çukur
  2021 29th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), 2021 Link

Services and Teaching Experience

• Reviewer for NeurIPS 2023, ICLR 2024, AISTATS 2024, ISIT 2024, ICML 2024, AAAI 2025, TMLR and IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
• Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Machine Learning for Engineers (18-661) in Spring 2024
• Teaching Assistant for Algorithms for Large-scale Distributed Machine Learning and Optimization (18-667) in Fall 2024

Selected Honors and Awards

• 2023-2024 Ben Cook Presidential Graduate Fellowship in Electrical and Computer Engineering at CMU
• Bilkent University Comprehensive Scholarship: Full tuition waiver and stipend during the B.Sc. Program
• Scholarship of Turkish Ministry of Youth and Sports: Awarded stipend during the B.Sc. Program