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General

Reach me at burakaydin [at] princeton [dot] edu
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Education

  • Aug ’23 - Present

    Princeton, NJ

    Ph.D. in Operations Research and Financial Engineering
    Princeton University
    • Advised by Prof. Ronnie Sircar
    • GPA: 3.95 / 4.00
    • Coursework in Optimization, Probability, Stochastic Calculus, Statistics, Computational Finance, Risk Management, Asset Pricing, PDE Methods for Financial Mathematics, Functional Analysis
    • Departmental Graduate Student Committee Member
  • Aug ’19 - Jun ’23

    Istanbul, TR

    B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
    Boğaziçi University
    • Graduated with High Honors (GPA: 3.90/4.00)
    • Minor in Economics (GPA: 4.00/4.00)
  • Sep ’14 - Jun ’19

    Istanbul, TR

    High school (lycée) diploma
    Kadıköy Anadolu Lisesi
    • Valedictorian (Class Rank: 1/333)

Experience

  • Jun ’25 - Aug ’25

    Charlotte, NC

    Quantitative Analytics Intern
    Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    • Member of the Rates team under Corporate & Investment Banking, Traded Products Model Development Center.
    • Developed a C++ script for pricing of nonstandard European swaptions within bank's repository, worked on mathematical derivations of further functionalities.
  • Aug ’24 - Present

    Princeton, NJ

    Teaching Assistant
    Princeton University
    • Energy and Commodities Markets, ORF 555 & ORF 455/ENE 455. (Fall 2025)
    • Computing and Optimization for Physical and Social Sciences, ORF 363/COS 323. (Fall 2024, Spring 2025)
  • Sep ’22 - Jun ’23

    Istanbul, TR

    Undergraduate Research Assistant
    Bogazici University Photonics and Optical Wireless Communication Laboratory
    • Senior design project on Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication. Focusing on field-of-view limitations on curvy roads, worked on hardware and software aspects for the project, used MATLAB for modeling.
    • Editor's Choice Award from Photonics journal.
  • Jul ’22 - Sep ’22

    Stuttgart, DE

    Undergraduate Research Intern at Physical Intelligence Department
    Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
    • Utilized Python and Robot Operating System in order to construct a closed-loop controller with visual feedback, ran systematic experiments
    • Employed Machine Learning tools to achieve real-time data processing and decision making for robot motion.

Skills & Interests

  • Programming
    • Python, C++, MATLAB, R
  • Languages
    • Turkish (●●●●●), English (●●●●●), Spanish (●●●○○), German (●●○○○), Greek (●○○○○)
  • Hobbies
    • Member of Carnegie Lake Rowing Association, Princeton Club Tennis.

Achievements & Scholarships

  • Turkish University Entrance Exam 2019: 6th place in Quantitative & 1st in English sections, among 2,528,031 test takers.
  • Recipient of Turkish Presidential Outstanding Success Scholarship, Bogazici University Outstanding Success Scholarship, Turkiye Is Bankasi Golden Youth Award during undergraduate education.

Talks & Publications

  • [Talk] Oct 2025 - Oxford-Princeton Workshop XIV on Financial Mathematics & Stochastic Analysis, University of Oxford.
  • [Publication] May 2025 - Fare Game: A Mean Field Model of Stochastic Intensity Control in Dynamic Ticket Pricing, with E. Parmaksiz and R. Sircar
  • [Publication] May 2024 - An Empirical Approach to Rerouting Visible Light Pathways Using an Adjustable-Angle Mirror to Sustain Communication between Vehicles on Curvy Roads, with A. Deniz and H. Yuksel