Path
Study, research and industry ran side by side for most of it, so they get a lane each. Newest at the top.
Study
Research
Industry
B.Sc.
Yıldız Technical University, 2018 – 2023
M.Sc.
Istanbul Technical University, 2023 – 2025
Undergraduate Researcher
Yıldız Technical University, 2020 – 2023
Visiting Researcher
University of Southern Denmark, 2024 – now
AI Engineer
Optdcom, 2022
AI Engineer
Hevi AI, 2023 – 2025
AI Team Lead
PhillipCapital, 2025
Founding AI Engineer
Promake, 2025 – now
News
- Sep 2026 Routing subspaces: auditing evaluation-to-deployment mismatch in fine-tuned language models accepted to the NeurIPS 2026 main track.
- Sep 2026 Promake's advertising product shipped, the second there that I have architected and built.
- Jul 2026 Three papers at ICML 2026 workshops: an oral at the Philosophy of Machine Learning Workshop and two at the Workshop on Mechanistic Interpretability.
- May 2026 Promake joined the Google for Startups Accelerator.
- Feb 2026 Promake's first product launched, a website builder that gets a small business onto the web.
- Oct 2025 Joined Promake as founding AI engineer, with technical ownership of its agent systems.
- Aug 2025 Completed the M.Sc. at Istanbul Technical University.
- Jun 2025 Runner-up, ECG Challenge, British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre.
- Mar 2025 Hevi AI's radiology suite was CE marked under the MDR, the first from Turkiye. It includes hBreastMMG, the mammography product I built and technically owned, from concept to beta.
- Mar 2025 Visit grant, Danish Data Science Academy, for a research stay at the University of Southern Denmark.
- Jan 2025 Joined PhillipCapital Group as AI team lead.
- Nov 2024 Started as a visiting researcher at the University of Southern Denmark.
- 2024 Third place, Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare competition, among roughly 5,000 teams.
- Sep 2023 Joined Hevi AI as AI engineer.
- Sep 2023 Attended the AESIM Summer School on trustworthy and explainable AI.
- Jul 2023 Joined the PIMI Lab at Istanbul Technical University as a graduate researcher.
- Jul 2023 Research scholarship, TUSEB, Health Institutes of Turkiye, for the ECG work behind my M.Sc. thesis.
- Jun 2023 Graduated from Yıldız Technical University.
- Aug 2022 Research intern at the Tactile Research Lab, Boğaziçi University.
- Feb 2022 Joined Optdcom R&D as AI engineer.
- 2021 Research scholarship, TUBITAK, the national research council of Turkiye, on optimising the order of training examples.
- 2021 Third place, autonomous rover competition, Teknofest.
- 2021 Joined Prof. M. Fatih Amasyalı’s natural language processing group at Yıldız Technical University as an undergraduate researcher.
- Nov 2020 Built the first vision system of the Yıldız Rover team from scratch, as part of its founding crew.
Mentoring and teaching
- since 2024 Research mentoring, University of Southern Denmark. P. Mark Konrad, an undergraduate when we started and now an MSc student at Tübingen; his work on mechanistic interpretability and verification became a NeurIPS 2026 main-track paper and two ICML 2026 workshop papers
- since 2022 Student mentoring, Yıldız Technical University. Salih Emre Karakaş, who interned at Promake and now works there part time in his final year, three other undergraduates in computer science and biomedical engineering, and project groups building AI for healthcare
- 2022 to 2023 Peer advisor, Yıldız Technical University. An appointed position in the computer engineering department, as the person students were directed to for academic guidance
- 2022 Guest lecture, Deep Learning for NLP, in Introduction to Natural Language Processing (BLM4580), Yıldız Technical University