Service
I’ve been fortunate to engage in service activities that have greatly contributed to my personal and professional development. In both academia and industry, I’ve aimed to positively impact and contribute to the community.
Academic Duties⌗
Reviewer⌗
- Springer Machine Learning
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
- ILHF Workshop @ ICML 2023
- ICLR 2023
- ACM/IEEE HRI 2023
- RL4RealLife Workshop @ NeurIPS 2022
- 2022 31st IEEE RO-MAN
Teaching Assistant⌗
- Institution: Bilkent University
Location: Ankara, Turkey
Time period: 2020 - 2023
• CS 115: Introduction to Programming in Python
• EEE 212: Microprocessors
• EEE 211: Analog Electronics
Work Experience⌗
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Institution: Robust Intelligence
Role: Research Intern
Project: Developing frameworks for making LLMs robust to adversarial attacks – part of AI Security team
Time period: Sep 2024 - present -
Institution: Google
Role: Research Intern
Project: Developing frameworks for enhancing the long context and out-of-distribution generalizability of LLMs – part of Systems Research Group (SRG)
Time period: May 2024 - Sep 2024
Hosts: Peilin Zhong, Zhipeng Jia, and Vahab Mirrokni -
Institution: Metawaves, Futbala AI
Role: Machine Learning Developer in the Core AI Team
Project: Cutting-edge reinforcement learning solutions for a fully-autonomous humanoid soccer matchmaking
Time period: Mar 2023 - Aug 2023 -
Institution: Turk Telekom
Location: Ankara, Turkey
Role: R&D Operations Specialist
Project: Research on reinforcement learning for wireless communications
Time period: May 2022 - Jul 2023 -
Institution: DataBoss Inc.
Location: Ankara, Turkey
Role: Research Scientist
Project: Universal Autonomy Project (served to Turkish Armed Forces)
Time period: Sep 2020 - Jun 2021 -
Institution: DataBoss Inc.
Location: Ankara, Turkey
Role: Research Scientist
Project: Research on fully-autonomous mini-car kits
Time period: Sep 2020 - Jun 2021 -
Institution: Fraunhofer IIS
Location: Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
Role: Intern Engineer
Project: 5G Bavaria Project - Indoor localization
Time period: Jun 2019 - Sep 2019