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Istanbul, Türkiye

• Joined Leagle, a startup company founded by Ko¸c University students focusing on developing an AI-based legal assistant for businesses and lawyers.
• Worked in implementation of assistant chatbot, contract drafting, and contract risk analysis features for the product.
• Scraped data (legislations and regulations of Turkish Legal System) from public sources of government in order to fine-tune large language models and create database for linking model’s outputs to real-world sources.
• Helped implementing this B2B service using Git Control System, Django framework, and Microsoft Azure with the team.

Istanbul, Türkiye

• Involved in a research group working on 360° panaromic image generation under the guidance of Prof. Aykut Erdem and Prof. Erkut Erdem.
• Gained a deeper understanding of autoregressive multimodal models and stable diffusion models.
• Research was focused on vision language models such as Anole and Chameleon.
• Experimented with different tokenizers and image generation strategies.
• Extended existing models with new techniques and performed fine-tuning.

Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands

• Joined in a research group in Leiden Institue of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) under the guidance of Asst. Prof. Hazel Doughty.
• Worked on motion recognition and video understanding with large multimodal models.
• Tested various LLaVa models, including LLaVa-NeXT and Video-LLaVa, common vision language models built for image and video recognition.
• Fine-tuned models in action recognition datasets such as Something-Something videodataset.
• Utilized models like BERT-Sentence Transformer to evaluate the models.
• Learned how to implement quantization and LORA for efficient and faster training.

Istanbul, Türkiye

• Completed a one month game development internship in Atlas Space, a company focusing on building technology in the fields of VR/AR, metaverse platforms, IAAS, and blockchain
• Joined the Game Development and Interactive Media department and worked as a software/game developer intern.
• Mastered my C++ and Unity skills.

Istanbul, Turkey

• Involved in a research group of Asst. Prof. Fatma Güney working on on motion forecasting for self-driving cars.
• Tested the robustness of prediction models such as QCNet and HPTR by manipulating traning and validation datasets.
• Worked with Argoverse 2 and Waymo Open Dataset in a cluster system.
• Reproduced machine learning papers and gained hands-on experience in implementing neural networks.
• Mastered my Pandas, NumPy, matplotlib, and PyTorch skills.

Istanbul, Turkey

• Worked as a teaching assistant tutor for Linear Algebra course offered by Prof. Burak Özbağcı in Fall 2023.
• Provided one-on-one or group teaching and problem-solving sessions for students.

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Business Administration And Management, General, Junior

4.00 GPA

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Computer Engineering, Sophomore

3.90 GPA

Valedictorian, High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Starter Shooting Guard in High School Basketball Team Self-Taught Piano Player