CV

Education

• Ph.D in Machine Learning, Bielefeld University, 2025 (expected)
• M.Sc. in Intelligent Systems, Bielefeld University, 2021
• B.Sc. in Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Istanbul Bilgi University, 2018
  • B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Communications Technology, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, 2017 (ERASMUS)

Work experience

• Co-founder & CRO, 2020 – Present
  Recommendy UG

• Research Assistant, 2019
  Bielefeld University

• Internship, 2018
  Migros T.A.Ş

• Internship, 2016
  Sunny Electronics

• Student Assistant, 2015-2018
  Istanbul Bilgi University

Publications

Sentiment Analysis Using Learning Approaches Over Emojis for Turkish Tweets

Detecting Hate Speech in Memes Using Multimodal Deep Learning Approaches: Prize-winning solution to Hateful Memes Challenge

Detecting Hate Speech In Multimodal Memes Using Vision-Language Models

The hateful memes challenge: competition report

Evaluating robustness of counterfactual explanations

A comparative study of neural machine translation models for Turkish language

A Graph-based U-Net Model for Predicting Traffic in unseen Cities

Traffic4cast at NeurIPS 2021-Temporal and Spatial Few-Shot Transfer Learning in Gridded Geo-Spatial Processes

Teaching

TA–Intro to Machine Learning

TA–Intro to Computer Algorithms

TA–Intro to Neural Networks

TA–Intro to Machine Learning

Awards & Honors

• 3rd prize in Hateful Memes Challenge by Facebook AI, 2020
• “The Best Tutor Award” by Bielefeld University, 2020
• Master’s Scholarship in Germany by TEV-DAAD, 2018
• Istanbul Bilgi University High Honors Certificate (Bachelor’s), 2018