Dr. Tunç is a computational scientist in the Center for Autism Research (CAR) and a research assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at University of Pennsylvania. His primary area of research is the application of machine learning and statistical data analysis in various domains such as digital phenotyping, nature of psychopathology, and neuroimaging (brain connectivity).

Dr. Tunç's goal is to develop novel computational models to better understand human behavior, its abnormalities, and how those relate to general psychopathology. He is currently leading and participating in several research efforts in CAR, including identifying neurobiological substrates of ASD phenomenology, characterization of heterogeneity in ASD and its comorbid conditions, and empirical evaluation of "non-categorical" models of ASD.

BA, Istanbul Technical University (Industrial Engineering), 2003

MS, Istanbul Technical University (Computational Science and Engineering), 2006

PhD, Istanbul Technical University (Computational Science and Engineering), 2012

Computational Scientist, Center for Autism Research

Research Assistant Professor of Computational Science and Engineering, Department of Psychiatry

Severity metric helps studies address autism's variability (Spectrum, July 2014)