Work Experience

• 2023-    Assistant Professor of Mathematics (non-tenure track), University of Michigan, Mathematics.

Education

• 2017-2023, Ph.D   University of Southern California, Mathematics.
    Advisor: Prof. Jianfeng Zhang
• 2012-2017, B.S.   Bogazici University, Physics.
    Advisor: Prof. Muhittin Mungan

Research Interests

•    Games, learning, geometric set valued analysis, stochastic controls, mathematical finance

Presentations

• 2025    SIAM Financial Mathematics and Engineering Set Valued PDEs and Games   Slides  
• 2025    Temple University, Set Valued PDEs and Games   Slides  
• 2025    University of Michigan, Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, The Learning Approach to Games   Slides  
• 2024    Rutgers University, Equilibrium Summer School, Set Valued HJB Equations
• 2024    SIAM Annual Meeting, Set Valued HJB Equations
• 2024    UBC, New Trends and Challenges in Stochastic Differential Games Workshop, Set Valued HJB Equations
• 2023    Florida State University, Financial Mathematics Seminar, Set Values of Mean Field Games
• 2023    University of Michigan, Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, Set Valued HJB Equations
• 2023    Defense at USC, Set Values for Mean Field Games and Set Valued PDEs  Youtube    Slides  
• 2023    Western Conference on Mathematical Finance 11, Set Valued HJB Equations
• 2023    Columbia University, Mathematical Finance Seminar Series, Set Valued HJB Equations
• 2022    University of Michigan, Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, Set Valued HJB Equations
• 2022    USC Probability and Statistics Seminar, Set Valued HJB Equations  Youtube 
• 2022    5th International Conference on Set Optimization with Applications to Economics, Set Valued HJB Equations
• 2021   USC Probability and Statistics Seminar, Set Value of Mean Field Games  Youtube 
• 2021   6th Berlin Workshop for Young Researchers in Math Finance, Set Value of Mean Field Games
• 2021   SIAM Conference on Financial Mathematics and Engineering, Set Value of Mean Field Games
• 2016   Warsaw School of Statistical Physics, Depinning as a Coagulation Process
• 2015   APS Mirror Conference, Istanbul, Depinning and the Smoluchowski Equation
• 2014   21^th Statistical Physics Days, Kayseri, Numerical Study of Avalanche Sizes in a Model Exhibiting Dynamic Criticality
• 2014   APS Mirror Conference, Istanbul, Study of Avalanche Sizes in a Model Exhibiting Dynamic Criticality

Refereed for

•    Numerical Algebra, Control and Optimization
•    Stochastics and Dynamics
•    Applied Mathematics and Optimization
•    SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics
•    Stochastics

Award

• 2022   USC Math Research Award [Edward and Dolores Blum]

Computer Skills

• Languages    Python, LaTeX, C, Matlab, Django, Html/CSS
• Python Library    D. Kaspar and M. Iseri. kmtoy: Python package for 'Depinning as a coagulation process'. (2016) DOI: 10.7301/Z0668B3H.
• GitHub    github.com/melihiseri .

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