Burak is currently a Design Engineer at Paul J. Ford & Co. He was an undergraduate student in the Department of Civil Engineering at The Ohio State University. He is interested in architected materials, failure mechanisms, and multi-stable structures. Burak wants to work with designing structural elements in high-rise buildings, stadiums, and innovative, dynamic building parts after college. He would like to continue his secondary education by getting his masters in Structural or Architectural Engineering and eventually earn his Ph.D. degree after that. Burak was born in Turkey and moved to the United States with his parents when he was six years old. In his spare time, Burak enjoys a nice night of video games, watching an intense soccer or basketball game, or playing in a game himself.