Law gave me structure.
Legal training shaped how I think about institutions, risk, incentives, and decision-making under pressure. It taught me to look for the hidden architecture behind complex systems.
Origin Story
From law to intelligent systems.
- Koç University — Law & Business
- Allen & Overy
- The World Bank Group
- Endeavor Turkey
- Legalist — Co-founder
- Ph.D. — Law, Science & AI
- Vizio AI & Vizio Ventures
My path into AI did not start with software.
It started with law, business, and a deep interest in how complex systems make decisions.
I studied law and business at Koç University, trained as a lawyer, and worked on large-scale legal, financial, and corporate matters. That experience taught me how institutions manage risk, structure decisions, and operate under pressure.
But I was increasingly drawn to a different question:
What happens when intelligence itself becomes part of the operating model?
That question led me into data science, machine learning, and eventually a joint Ph.D. in Law, Science and Technology, and Artificial Intelligence. My research focused on explainable AI and the right to explanation — long before AI governance became a boardroom topic.
Along the way, I worked across different worlds.
At Allen & Overy, I saw how high-stakes legal and financial systems operate. At The World Bank Group, I worked on data and policy-oriented analytics. At Endeavor, I supported entrepreneurial ecosystems and technology mapping. As co-founder of Legalist, I helped build one of Turkey’s first automated legal document generation platforms, serving around 1,000 users.
Each step shaped the same belief:
Technology is valuable only when it improves judgment, coordination, and execution.
That belief eventually became the foundation for Vizio AI.