Tolga is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, working with Prof. Jack Gallant. He pursued his M.S./Ph.D. degrees in the Magnetic Resonance Systems Research Lab at Stanford University.
Tolga's research interests lies in the broad areas of biomedical imaging and signal processing. Particularly, his work has focused on the development of novel data acquisition and reconstruction techniques for rapid magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).