Education

Koç University | Istanbul, Turkey
Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering | 2023 – 2026

• Thesis: Domain Adaptation of LLMs in Decentralized Settings
• Skills: HuggingFace Transformers, In-context Learning, Fine-tuning, Instruction-tuning, Inference-tuning, Model Alignment, Inference Optimizations (vLLM), RAG, AI Agents

Istanbul Technical University | Istanbul, Turkey
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering | 2016 – 2021

• CGPA: 3.02
• Graduation Project: Object Detection with Deep Learning for Autonomous Cars

Izmir Ataturk High School | Izmir, Turkey
Math-Science Student 2011 – 2015

Research Experience

AI Researcher | TUBITAK – Koç University | Istanbul, Turkey
Feb 2025 – Present

• NLP, Computer Vision, Multimodality, Efficient Model Training, Multilingual NLP, Trustworthy AI, Federated Learning, Domain Adaptation, Long Context LLMs, State Space Models (SSMs), Model Compression (e.g., Quantization, Distillation, Pruning)

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant | FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg | Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany
Jan 2026 – Present

• 29.1 Natural Language Processing

Teaching Assistant | Koç University | Istanbul, Turkey
Jan 2026 – Present

• COMP 125 Introduction to Programming with Python

Work Experience

Data Scientist | Hepsiburada, Research and Development Department | Istanbul, Turkey
Nov 2021 – Jan 2025

• Built segmentation, churn propensity, LTV prediction, and demand forecasting models with suitable machine learning algorithms
• Conducted statistical analysis and programming using various open-source coding languages and statistical software
• Built a discount segmentation model using Light-GBM algorithm to predict customers’ discount sensitivity and designed the pipeline for deployment on Airflow
• Applied suitable machine learning algorithms for specific business problems for a company with over 57 million customers
• Skills: Python, SQL, Big Query, Git, Looker Studio, Google Sheets, Apache Airflow

Artificial Intelligence Software Intern | Baykar Defense, Software Engineering Department | Istanbul, Turkey
Aug 2021 – Sep 2021

• Computer Vision, Deep Learning, PyTorch, Object Tracking

Engineering Intern | Enerjisa Enerji Üretim A.Ş. | Istanbul, Turkey
June 2019 – July 2019

Skills, Languages & Test Scores

Skills: Python, PyTorch, Flower, Scikit-learn, Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, SQL, Git, Looker Studio, GCP (Google Cloud Platform), BigQuery, MySQL

Languages: Turkish (Native), English (Advanced)

Test Scores: TOEFL iBT: 88, GRE Quantitative: 164