Yilmaz received his Ph.D. in 2008 from the Courant Institute, New York University, under the supervision of S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan. Before joining Temple University in 2018, he held various academic positions in the USA, Israel and his native Turkey. He is interested in probability theory, stochastic processes and partial differential equations as well as their various connections and applications to physics, engineering and economics. In particular, he has been working on the asymptotic and large deviation behavior of random walks, diffusions and polymers in random environments, the stochastic homogenization of Hamilton-Jacobi equations, optimal control and differential games in random media, and most recently, mean-field games.