Ph. D. Candidate,
Speech Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory (SAIL)
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Southern California, Viterbi School of Engineering (USC)

Erdem wanted to be a circuit designer, however finally figured out that, life is pointless without music. He is currently working on Music Information Retrieval(MIR) related topics, including Query-by-humming, uncertainty quantification, music fingerprinting, polyphonic music retrieval and tonality modeling.

Erdem plays the guitar and the piano. He is an extremely competent bridge player (favors full SAYC, but can play everything else), fairly good at chess but terrible at Texas Hold'em. He won medals in teamsports (handball and basketball) while he was in primary school and highschool.