Summary
Ada Yıldırım is a PhD candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant at Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering, researching game-theoretic model predictive control for multi-agent systems in the MADCAT lab. She graduated with honors from Boğaziçi University in Electrical & Electronics Engineering with a Business minor and spent an exchange semester at Boston University, blending control theory, signal processing, and practical systems work. Her experience spans academic research at BU’s STIR group, lab management with the award-winning BOUNtenna team, and organizing IEEE technical events—demonstrating both technical depth and program leadership. Comfortable at the intersection of theory and implementation, she brings ten years of varied experience from internships in data privacy and industry to content roles, and has a knack for turning cross-disciplinary ideas into actionable experiments.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Student, Exchange Student at Boston University
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at TED Ankara Koleji
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering at Dartmouth College
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical & Electronics Engineering at Boğaziçi University
Turkish, English, French, German