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I'll be sharing longer-form essays that doesn't fit a paper: research made approachable and occasional musings on my journey as a researcher. Also available as an RSS feed.

Aug 24, 2026

What is computational electromagnetics (CEM)?

An introduction for the interested but uninitiated: why Maxwell's equations aren't the hard part, and what sixty years of CEM research has actually been building towards.

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Aug 3, 2026

From Industry to Academia: Starting at Sabancı University

Joining Sabancı as Assistant Professor of Electronics Engineering — why I made the jump, and what my group will work on.

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Mert Kalfa
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences (FENS) · Sabancı University
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