Work History
| 2023 Apr – Continue | Dean of the Faculty | Istanbul University, Faculty of Computer and Information Technologies ( https://cit.istanbul.edu.tr ) |
| 2023 Jan – Continue | Prof. Dr. | Istanbul University, Dept. of Computer Science |
| 2019 – 2023 | Founder / CEO | OptiWisdom Inc. San Francisco California US: www.optiwisdom.com |
| 2018 – 2023 | Founder / CEO | Bilkav Education and Consultancy on Data Science, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence: www.bilkav.com |
| 2020 – Jan 2023 | Prof. | Antalya Bilim University, Dept. of Computer Science |
| 2019 – 2020 | Assoc. Prof. | Antalya Bilim University, Dept. of Computer Science |
| 2016 – 2019 | Assoc. Prof. | Istanbul Sehir University, Dept. of Management Information Systems |
| 2016 – 2017 | Visiting Prof. | Smith College Dept. of Computer Science, MA, US |
| 2016 – 2016 (left for Sabbatical) | Assoc. Prof. | Istanbul Sehir University, Dept. of Management Information Systems |
| 2013 – 2016 | Assoc. Prof. , Chair | Istanbul Medeniyet University, Dept. of Business, Management Information Systems Major Program |
| 2014 – 2015 | Asst. Prof. | AUM affiliated with Purdue University, Computer Science Department, Kuwait |
| 2012 – 2014 | Post-Doc Researcher | University of Texas at Dallas – Computer Science Department |
| 2012 – 2013 | Information Systems Management, Consultant | Istanbul University, Rector’s Office, Enterprise Resource Planning |
| 2011 – 2013 | Asst. Prof. | İstanbul University – Computer Engineering Department |
| 2011 – 2012 | Part Time Lecturer | Turkish Air Force Academy, Computer Engineering Department |
| 2011 – 2011 | Part Time Lecturer | European Vocational School, Computer Programming Department |
| 2010 – 2011 | Asst. Prof. | Okan University – Computer Engineering Department |
| 2007 – 2011 | Part Time Lecturer | Yeditepe University – Engineering Faculty, Faculty of Arts and Science |
| 2007 – 2008 | Part Time Lecturer | Okan University |
| 2006 – 2010 | Part Time Lecturer | İstanbul Commerce University – Computer Engineering Department, Vacational School |
| 2005 – 2010 | Founder, Consultant, Trainer | SET Education and Consultancy |
| 2004 – 2007 | Owner | Restaurant – Sofrayı Cedid |
| 2004 – 2005 | Project Officer | General Staff, Turkish Military Head Quarters |
| 2000 – 2004 | Teaching Assistant | Yeditepe University – Computer Science and Engineering Department |
| 2000 – 2010 | Founder | TEK Computer |
| 1997 – 2000 | Trainer | Ant Education and Consultancy |
Education
| 2012 – 2013 | PostDoc | University of Texas at Dallas – Computer Science | Datamining, Text Mining, Stream Mining, Natural Language Processing |
| 2005 – 2010 | PhD. | Yildiz Technical University – Computer Engineering Department | Natural Language Processing, Temporal Logics, Search Engines, High Honor Degree |
| 2002 – 2004 | MA. in Science Technology and Society | Istanbul Technical University, Institute of Social Sciences http://www.shedai.net/sts/ | E-government, E-Democracy |
| 2000 – 2003 | MSc. in Computer Science | Yeditepe University, Institute of Science and Engineering | Natural Language Processing, LISP and lambda calculus, High Honor Degree |
| 1996 – 2000 | BSc. in Computer Science and Engineering (Ranked First in Dept.) | Yeditepe University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering | Ranked First in the Department and Second in the Faculty |
| 1993 – 1996 | Beylerbeyi Lisesi | Science and Math Track | Ranked First |
| 1990 – 1993 | Beylerbeyi Ortaokulu | ||
| 1985 – 1990 | Beylerbeyi İlk Okulu | Started at Lütfi Erçin İlkokulu and Transfered at 4th Year | Graduated with 5 over 5 full grade. |
Projects
Previous Projects
| Dec 2023 -Cont. | Turkcell, Generic Visual Front-end For AutoML engine | Visualization of Data Flow Diagram with multiple and multi type nodes and flow possibilities. | |
| Jan 2023 – Cont. | Istanbul University Master Data Science Project | 10 years logn generic project for data collection (including IoT and hybrid data sources), data manipulation (including data quality and enrichment studies), modeling (including statistical and machine learning models) and visualization. | |
| Nov 2023 – Apr 2024 | Turkcell Gelecegi Yazanlar.
Online training content with exams and vidoes
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Introduction to Computer Science, Digitalisation and Philosophy of Digital Life. Training set about Digital Transformation and Innovation. Completed | |
| May 2022 – 2024 | OptiCrawler | Web Crawling + Scrapping + Matching tool to gather data from any web source and merge the collected data with OptiMatcher AI-Engine. Current Projects:
Turk Eczacıları Birliği (Turkish Pharmacists Association), searching for illegal pharmacists actions on web. Completed, Project continues. |
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| May. 2022 – 2024 | OptiCRM – BPM | Business Process Modeling and Customer Relationship Management project for foreign trade and customer matching. Preparing Spin-off with ODS Consulting Group. Completed Project Continues. | |
| 2022 – 2023. | Sun Express. | As a part of digital transformation and smart innovation of all departments in the company, training of data scientist, data analyst, business analyst and IT roles.Completed | |
| 2021 – 2022. | Ziraat Bank, Corporate Customers Smart Solutions. | Providing special machine learning and data manipulation / visualization, testing models for more than 80 problems, including customer churn, product recommendation, next best action etc. for the corporate customers of Ziraat Bankası Completed | |
| Feb. 2022 | Turk Rekabet Kurumu (Turkish Competition Authority) | End-to-End machine learning course for Data Analytics. Completed | |
| 2021- 2022 | Ziraat Bank, Smart Performance and Target System. | A smart performance tracking and target calculation system for all branches and portfolio managers of Ziraat Bankası. Completed | |
| 2021 – 2022. | Smart Web Scrapping – Unification / Matching Engine | Multi purpose generic web crawling and data gathering tool with unification and matching background. Project mainly developed for retail industry, now under tests for Mass Production, Import/Export, Customer Acquisition/Matching and Tourism Industries. Completed | |
| 2021 – 2022. | Logo Software / Logo Diva | Smart campaign management, customer, product monitoring and segmentation tool. POC Completed. Business development is on going.
Replenishment Management for FMCG companies: Predictive Analytics. |
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| 2018 – 2023. | OptiMatcher | A generic AI-Engine, which supports matching, resource allocation and recommendation services. Mainly deployed as recommendation engine on customer site. Since 2021, the project is supported by Turkish National Science Foundation (TÜBİTAK) as a 1507 TEYDEBproject. | |
| Dec. 2021 | Deniz Bank | Deep Learning Training | |
| 2020 – 2022. | Ziraat Technology Talent Management Department. | End-to-End Data Analytics Training, including Machine Learning, Data Science, Data Visualization, Statistics and Mathematics Foundations, SQL, Deep Learning. | |
| 2021-2022. | REM People | Development of performance prediction and target models for sales points for Anadolu Holding Beverages. Completed
Development of Marketing Mix Model for Nestle Group, project stopped. Development of time series analysis for demand prediction for Kraft Middle East. POC Completed. |
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| 2020 –2021 | Turkcell AutoML Engine Project | Providing AutoML solutions for network operations based on field-data and external data. Completed | |
| Dec 2020 – 2021 | Rixos and Accor Hotels | Customer Journey/Experience Analysis. Determining/optimizing the touch points, and providing predictive/prescriptive analytics for CXA, by using OWCJA.
Completed |
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| Jun 2020 – 2022 | Related Digitals, EuroMessage, VisiLabs+ , Insight and Recommender Engine | Providing cutting-edge AI-Engines for streaming web analytics and ‘send-time optimization’, ‘predicitive segmentation’, ‘product recommendation’, with OptiMatcher , Completed | |
| Mar 2020 – Cont. | KolayAI | SME focused, self-service AI solutions on SaaS platform. Available on kolay.ai or www.kolayai.com , Since 2021 the project is supported by Turkish National Science Foundation (TÜBİTAK) as a 1507 TEYDEB project. | |
| Jan 2020 – 2022 | OptiWisdom Customer Journey Analysis (OWCJA) | Predictive and prescriptive analytics on customer / process journey. Available on www.owcja.com
Completed |
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| Nov 2019 – 2022. | DeepMetrica | Web analytics tool for screen recording of web-site visitors and providing explainable insights to the web-masters by using AI-engines.
Spin-off: Founded the company: MeasurAI Since 2020, the project is supported by Turkish National Science Foundation (TÜBİTAK) as a 1507 TEYDEBproject. |
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| Feb. 2019 | İş Bankası | Data Analytics training for Is Bank Customer Relationship and Analytics with Knime | |
| Sep 2019 – 2023. | XchangeWiser | Financial Robo-Advisor, Providing Financial Analytics with AI, powered by OptiScorer. Available on www.xchangewiser.com | |
| Nov 2018 – 2023. | OptiSegment | AutoML based segmentation engine. Since Jun 2019 it is funded by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) – 1507 with project number: 7190398. The project development is completed, business development is still on going. | |
| Jun 2018 – 2019. | İstanbul Su Kanal İdaresi (İSKİ)
(Istanbul Sewer and Water Administration) |
Creating Big Data Platform and Big Data Analytics for Water Quality, Consumption Predictions, and Profiling Illegal Users and Fraud, Completed | |
| Apr 2018 – 2019. | ETS Tur , leading company in Tourism | Scoring Customers and Hotels for advertisments and notifications on big data platform, Completed | |
| May 2018 – 2019. | Turkcell | Leaded AI-Research collaborated with EVAM. Up Sell / cross sell models for customers, Completed | |
| Nov 2017 – 2023. | OptiScorer | Multi purpose, scoring engine with Responsible AI, Explainable AI and AutoML technologies. Since Dec 2019, project forked to a self-service SaaS solution under name OptiScorer End-to-End (OSe2e) under kolay.ai project. | |
| Nov 2017 – 2019 | ACI (Affiliated Creditors Incorporated) , Collection agency based on Nashville, TN, US | Scoring for debt collection. Completed and available project name now is CollectWiser. | |
| Nov 2017 – 2021. | Akil YMM | AI Based auditing system for financial fraud.
Spin-off : Founded company AutoAudit in 2020. |
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| Jan 2017 – 2021. | MLMatch, now continues as OptiMatcher | A Framework for auto Matching Machine Learning Problems with Machine Learning Algorithms and Techniqes. Project is now launched under the name OptiMatcher. | |
| 2019 | Arvato CRM | Data Preprocessing and ETL Processes on Knime for 1 week, Completed | |
| 2019 | EnerjiSA, AYEDAŞ | Machine Learning Programming with Python, for 2 weeks, Completed | |
| 2018 | Albaraka Turk | Machine Learning and Business Analytics Course for 1 month, Completed | |
| 2018 | Participation Banks Association of Turkey | Machine Learning and Business Analytics course for 1 week, Completed | |
| 2017 | Vodafone Turkey | Apache Cassandra and Big Data transformation Completed | |
| 2016 – 2017 | Vodafone Turkey | Data Mining and Machine Learning Training program prepared and delivered to several project groups working on big data, smart home, CRM, customer churn analysis, campaign and promotions, marketing (courses prepared in 2016 and delivered in January 2017) Completed | |
| 2016 | Kontra Digital Services | Developing and Optimizing advertisement recommendation system for mobile users. Completed | |
| 2015-2015 | Havelsan Data Mining Project via Rapid Miner | Supported by Havelsan, Completed | |
| 2015 – 2016 | CicekSepeti.com , | Developing a decision support system for e-trade platform to collect peripheral data and process sentimental analysis on big data environment (Spark + MLLib and Mahout) for ciceksepeti.com
Supported by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) – 1501 in collaboration with Çiçek Sepeti, Project No. 3150106 Completed |
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| 2015 – 2015 | TUBITAK TUSSIDE (Gebze) Big Data Training Project | Supported by Turkish National Science Foundation TUSSIDE, Completed | |
| 2015 – 2015 | TUBITAK TUSSIDE Database Training Project | Supported by Turkish National Science Foundation TUSSIDE, Completed | |
| 2015 – 2016 | Social Media Campaign | Supported by the Turkish Ministry of Youth and Sports, Completed | |
| 2013 -2016 | Social Web Mining and Business Intelligence | Supported by Istanbul Medeniyet University, Research Projects Department under project number SBA-2014-438, Completed | |
| 2013 – 2014 | Web based Reputation Index | Supported by Istanbul Medeniyet University, Research Projects Department under project number SUY-2013-450, Completed | |
| 2013 | The Impact of Employment Web Sites’ Traffic on Unemployment: A Cross Country Comparison | Supported by Istanbul Medeniyet University, Research Projects Department under project number SUY-2013-437, Completed | |
| 2012 – 2013 | Stream Mining Analysis on Blogs and Web Comments | University of Texas at Dallas, computer science department, Supported by Turkish Higher Education Council, Post-Doc research support, Completed | |
| 2013 | Sentimental Analysis on Streaming Blogs and Twitter | at University of Texas at Dallas, computer science department, Supported by Supported by Turkish Higher Education Council Post-Doc research support, Completed | |
| 2012 – 2013 | Economy news and stock market correlation for Turkey | at University of Texas at Dallas, computer science department, Supported by Supported by Turkish Higher Education Council Post-Doc research support, Completed | |
| 2012 – 2013 | Data Mining Applications on Engineering Problems | Supported by Istanbul University Research Project Department under project number YADOP 27254, Completed | |
| 2012 – 2013 | Solving Statistical Optimisation Problems via Artificial Intelligence | Supported by Istanbul University Research Project Department under project number UDP 24502, Completed | |
| 2012 – 2012 | Post Doctoral Research | Supported by Higher Education Council of Turkey (YÖK), Completed | |
| 2012 – 2012 | Estimation of Elastic Modulus of Intact Rocks by Artificial Neural Network | Supported by Istanbul University Research Project Department under project number BYP 23343, Completed | |
| 2011 – 2012 | Solving Statistical Optimisation Problems via Artificial Intelligence | Supported by Istanbul University Research Project Department under project number YADOP 16728, Completed | |
| 2006 – 2008 | LcWaikiki – TEMA Tekstil | Training and Testing the professional qualification of information technology department personal, Completed | |
| 2005 | Payment Tracking and Budget Control Software | Eksioglu Insaat, Completed | |
| 2005 – 2010 | Temporal Logic Modelling for Turkish Natural Language | Department of Computer Engineering, Yildiz Technical University, Completed | |
| 2005 – 2007 | Turkish Speaking Search Engine (TuSSE) | PhD. Research Alterantive in Yildiz Technical Univeristy, Department of Computer Engineeringhttp://www.shedai.net/tusse/ | |
| 2003 – 2004 | Social Impacts of Egovernment in Turkey | Istanbul Technical University, Institute of Social Sciences http://www.shedai.net/e-devlet/egov.htm | |
| 2002 – 2004 | Student Registration System | Yeditepe University, department of Computer Science and Engineering | |
| 2002 – 2003 | TuJA – Turkish Natural Language to JAVA | Yeditepe University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering http://www.shedai.net/~tuja/ | |
| 2000 – 2004 | Turkish Speaking Assistant TuSA | Yeditepe University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Artificial Intelligence Lab. http://www.shedai.net/tusa/ | |
MA. Presentations (2002 – 2004)
PhD. Course Projects (2005 – 2007)
Reports / Codes (1998 – 2002)
| Reports | Codes |
| Mutli Threaded Architectures | |
| Cache Becnhmarking | coda.c |
| Computer Graphics-Rotate, translate and Scaling | Codes |
| Web Based Shop Creator | Codes of WeBaSC |
| TCP vs. PVM |