Media
A selection of news articles and video interviews I’ve been featured in.
●From Keşan to The Silicon Valley
BigSmall filmed a documentary feature on our team's story at our home office.
June 17, 2022
●Voice Assistants Don’t Understand Us They Should
Featured in a guest essay in The New York Times by Char Adams, discussing the need for improved voice assistant accessibility.
September 22, 2021
●Tech Firms Train Voice Assistants to Understand Atypical Speech
Featured in a Wall Street Journal article by Katie Deighton, examining user satisfaction and advancements in voice assistant technology.
February 24, 2021
●Expanding the lines of communication
Interviewed by Peggy Townsend of UCSC along with my professor regarding the Google Ph.D. Fellowship I received.
Nov 5, 2020
●Project Euphonia’s new step: 1,000 hours of speech recordings
Highlighted by Julie Catiau on the Google Blog for our collaboration on Project Euphonia's milestone.
Oct 15, 2020
●This iPhone app makes web navigation truly hands-free
The HeadGaze application was recognized as a finalist in Fast Company’s 2019 World Changing Ideas Awards.
April 8, 2019
●Ebay’s HeadGaze lets motor-impaired users navigate the site with head movements
Devin Coldewey provided commentary on our eBay development work in Tech Crunch.
Sep 11, 2018
●eBay’s HeadGaze brings hands-free input to the iPhone X using ARKit
Our work on eBay's HeadGaze was covered by Nick Statt in The Verge.
Sep 11, 2018
●eBay Open-Sources Technology that Uses Head Motion to Navigate User Interface on iPhone X
Authored an article for eBay's blog detailing the open-sourcing of our head-motion navigation technology.
Sep 11, 2018
●Wheels Into Wings
Todd Guild covered my skydiving experience with Volker Haag in Watsonville, California.
February 14, 2018
●Muratcan Cicek Received The Google Europe Scholarship
Interviewed by the BBC following my presentation at Google’s London Office
July 19, 2017