Experience

  1. AI Scientist

    Intor AI · Remote
    • Build and ship production Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems for law firms: document-grounded chatbots and full-stack web applications.
    • Own the stack end-to-end, from retrieval and LLM orchestration (LangChain/LangGraph, MCP, OpenAI & Anthropic APIs) to deployment, in a fully remote team.

  2. Visiting Researcher

    Technical University of Denmark (DTU) · Copenhagen
    Developed time-continuous generator functions for scalable generative modeling of sequential data, hosted by Prof. Ole Winther.

  3. Visiting AI Researcher

    Bank for International Settlements (BIS) · Basel
    • Designed and trained BISTRO, a transformer-based foundation model for macroeconomic time-series forecasting across multiple economies, supporting unconditional and conditional (scenario & counterfactual) forecasts.
    • Delivered a single pretrained model spanning many countries and indicators, replacing bespoke per-series pipelines; published as BIS Working Paper No. 1337. Hosted by Fernando Perez-Cruz.

  4. PhD Researcher (ELLIS)

    Saarland University · Saarbrücken
    • Time-series foundation models: probabilistic transformer architectures for interpretable, robust multivariate forecasting.
    • Hypernetwork-based neural parameterization with deep generative models, enabling amortized inference with up to 10× speed-ups over standard fine-tuning.
    • Health sensing: personalized imputation and forecasting for irregular clinical time series; stress prediction from wearable-sensor data (HRV, EDA, PPG).

  5. M.Sc. Researcher

    Boğaziçi University · Istanbul
    Analysis and regularization of deep generative second-order ODEs for temporal modeling. Advisors: Prof. Lale Akarun & Prof. Ali Taylan Cemgil.

  6. Graduate Research Assistant

    Boğaziçi University, Medical & Biological Physics Group · Istanbul
    Built CNN-based spatio-temporal models for medical physics, including chemotherapy response prediction (Scientific Reports, 2022).

Education

  1. PhD Computer Science

    Saarland University
    ELLIS PhD student, co-advised by Prof. Isabel Valera and Prof. Ole Winther. Research on deep generative modeling and probabilistic methods for time-series data.

  2. MSc Computer Engineering

    Boğaziçi University
    GPA: 3.8/4.0. Advisor: Prof. Lale Akarun.

  3. BSc Physics

    Boğaziçi University
    Ranked 3rd in class. Fulbright PhD Grant recipient.