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Work History<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
2023 Apr – Continue<\/td>\nDean of the Faculty<\/td>\nIstanbul University, Faculty of Computer and Information Technologies ( https:\/\/cit.istanbul.edu.tr<\/a> )<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2023 Jan – Continue<\/td>\nProf. Dr.<\/td>\nIstanbul University, Dept. of Computer Science<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019 – 2023<\/td>\nFounder \/ CEO<\/td>\nOptiWisdom Inc. San Francisco California US: www.optiwisdom.com<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018 – 2023<\/td>\nFounder \/ CEO<\/td>\nBilkav Education and Consultancy on Data Science, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence: www.bilkav.com<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2020 – Jan 2023<\/td>\nProf.<\/td>\nAntalya Bilim University, Dept. of Computer Science<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019 –\u00a02020<\/td>\nAssoc. Prof.<\/td>\nAntalya Bilim University, Dept. of Computer Science<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016 –\u00a02019<\/td>\nAssoc. Prof.<\/td>\nIstanbul Sehir University, Dept. of Management Information Systems<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016 –\u00a02017<\/td>\nVisiting Prof.<\/td>\nSmith College Dept. of Computer Science, MA, US<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016 – 2016 (left for Sabbatical)<\/td>\nAssoc. Prof.<\/td>\nIstanbul Sehir University, Dept. of Management Information Systems<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2013 – 2016<\/td>\nAssoc. Prof. , Chair<\/td>\nIstanbul Medeniyet University, Dept. of Business, Management Information Systems Major Program<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2014 – 2015<\/td>\nAsst. Prof.<\/td>\nAUM affiliated with Purdue University, Computer Science Department, Kuwait<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2012 – 2014<\/td>\nPost-Doc Researcher<\/td>\nUniversity of Texas at Dallas – Computer Science Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2012 – 2013<\/td>\nInformation Systems Management, Consultant<\/td>\nIstanbul University, Rector’s Office, Enterprise Resource Planning<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011 – 2013<\/td>\nAsst. Prof.<\/td>\n\u0130stanbul University – Computer Engineering Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011 – 2012<\/td>\nPart Time Lecturer<\/td>\nTurkish Air Force Academy, Computer Engineering Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011 – 2011<\/td>\nPart Time Lecturer<\/td>\nEuropean Vocational School, Computer Programming Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2010 – 2011<\/td>\nAsst. Prof.<\/td>\nOkan University – Computer Engineering Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2007 – 2011<\/td>\nPart Time Lecturer<\/td>\nYeditepe University – Engineering Faculty, Faculty of Arts and Science<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2007 – 2008<\/td>\nPart Time Lecturer<\/td>\nOkan University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2006 – 2010<\/td>\nPart Time Lecturer<\/td>\n\u0130stanbul Commerce University – Computer Engineering Department, Vacational School<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005 – 2010<\/td>\nFounder, Consultant, Trainer<\/td>\nSET Education and Consultancy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2004 – 2007<\/td>\nOwner<\/td>\nRestaurant – Sofray\u0131 Cedid<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2004 – 2005<\/td>\nProject Officer<\/td>\nGeneral Staff, Turkish Military Head Quarters<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2000 – 2004<\/td>\nTeaching Assistant<\/td>\nYeditepe University – Computer Science and Engineering Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2000 – 2010<\/td>\nFounder<\/td>\nTEK Computer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1997 – 2000<\/td>\nTrainer<\/td>\nAnt Education and Consultancy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
2012 – 2013<\/td>\nPostDoc<\/td>\nUniversity of Texas at Dallas – Computer Science<\/td>\nDatamining, Text Mining, Stream Mining, Natural Language Processing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005 – 2010<\/td>\nPhD.<\/td>\nYildiz Technical University – Computer Engineering Department<\/td>\nNatural Language Processing, Temporal Logics, Search Engines, High Honor Degree<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2002 – 2004<\/td>\nMA. in Science Technology and Society<\/td>\nIstanbul Technical University, Institute of Social Sciences http:\/\/www.shedai.net\/sts\/<\/a><\/td>\nE-government, E-Democracy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2000 – 2003<\/td>\nMSc. in Computer Science<\/td>\nYeditepe University, Institute of Science and Engineering<\/td>\nNatural Language Processing, LISP and lambda calculus, High Honor Degree<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1996 – 2000<\/td>\nBSc. in Computer Science and Engineering (Ranked First in Dept.)<\/td>\nYeditepe University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering<\/td>\nRanked First in the Department and Second in the Faculty<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1993 – 1996<\/td>\nBeylerbeyi Lisesi<\/td>\nScience and Math Track<\/td>\nRanked First<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1990 – 1993<\/td>\nBeylerbeyi Ortaokulu<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1985 – 1990<\/td>\nBeylerbeyi \u0130lk Okulu<\/td>\nStarted at L\u00fctfi Er\u00e7in \u0130lkokulu and Transfered at 4th Year<\/td>\nGraduated with 5 over 5 full grade.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Projects<\/strong>
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Previous Projects<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Dec 2023 -Cont.<\/td>\nTurkcell, Generic Visual Front-end For AutoML engine<\/td>\nVisualization of Data Flow Diagram with multiple and multi type nodes and flow possibilities.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan 2023 \u2013 Cont.<\/td>\nIstanbul University Master Data Science Project<\/td>\n10 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.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 2023 \u2013 Apr 2024<\/td>\nTurkcell Gelecegi Yazanlar.<\/p>\n

Online training content with exams and vidoes<\/p>\n

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Introduction to Computer Science, Digitalisation and Philosophy of Digital Life. Training set about Digital Transformation and Innovation. Completed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 2022 \u2013 2024<\/td>\nOptiCrawler<\/td>\nWeb Crawling + Scrapping + Matching tool to gather data from any web source and merge the collected data with OptiMatcher AI-Engine. Current Projects:<\/p>\n

Turk Eczac\u0131lar\u0131 Birli\u011fi (Turkish Pharmacists Association), searching for illegal pharmacists actions on web. Completed, Project continues.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

May. 2022 \u2013 2024<\/td>\nOptiCRM – BPM<\/td>\nBusiness Process Modeling and Customer Relationship Management project for foreign trade and customer matching. Preparing Spin-off with ODS Consulting Group. Completed Project Continues.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2022 \u2013 2023.<\/td>\nSun Express.<\/td>\nAs 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<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021 \u2013 2022.<\/td>\nZiraat Bank, Corporate Customers Smart Solutions.<\/td>\nProviding special machine learning and data manipulation \/ visualization, testing models for more than 80 problems, including customer churn, product recommendation,\u00a0 next best action etc. for the corporate customers of Ziraat Bankas\u0131 Completed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Feb. 2022<\/td>\nTurk Rekabet Kurumu (Turkish Competition Authority)<\/td>\nEnd-to-End machine learning course for Data Analytics. Completed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021- 2022<\/td>\nZiraat Bank, Smart Performance and Target System.<\/td>\nA smart performance tracking and target calculation system for all branches and portfolio managers of Ziraat Bankas\u0131. Completed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021 \u2013 2022.<\/td>\nSmart Web Scrapping \u2013 Unification \/ Matching Engine<\/td>\nMulti 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\u00a0 Tourism Industries. Completed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021 \u2013 2022.<\/td>\nLogo Software \/ Logo Diva<\/td>\nSmart campaign management, customer, product monitoring and segmentation tool. POC Completed<\/strong>. Business development is on going.<\/p>\n

Replenishment Management for FMCG companies: Predictive Analytics.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2018 \u2013 2023.<\/td>\nOptiMatcher<\/td>\nA 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 (T\u00dcB\u0130TAK) as a 1507 TEYDEB<\/strong>project.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec. 2021<\/td>\nDeniz Bank<\/td>\nDeep Learning Training<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2020 \u2013 2022.<\/td>\nZiraat Technology Talent Management Department.<\/td>\nEnd-to-End Data Analytics Training, including Machine Learning, Data Science, Data Visualization, Statistics and Mathematics Foundations, SQL, Deep Learning.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021-2022.<\/td>\nREM People<\/td>\nDevelopment of performance prediction and target models for sales points for Anadolu Holding Beverages. Completed<\/strong><\/p>\n

Development of Marketing Mix Model for Nestle Group, project stopped. Development of time series analysis for demand prediction for Kraft Middle East. POC Completed<\/strong>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2020 \u20132021<\/td>\nTurkcell AutoML Engine Project<\/td>\nProviding AutoML solutions for network operations based on field-data and external data. Completed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dec 2020 \u2013 2021<\/td>\nRixos and Accor Hotels<\/td>\nCustomer Journey\/Experience Analysis. Determining\/optimizing the touch points, and providing predictive\/prescriptive analytics for CXA, by using OWCJA.<\/p>\n

Completed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Jun 2020 – 2022<\/td>\nRelated Digitals, EuroMessage, VisiLabs+ , Insight and Recommender Engine<\/td>\nProviding cutting-edge AI-Engines for streaming web analytics and \u2018send-time optimization\u2019, \u2018predicitive segmentation\u2019, \u2018product recommendation\u2019, with OptiMatcher , <\/strong>Completed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mar 2020 \u2013 Cont.<\/td>\nKolayAI<\/td>\nSME 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 (T\u00dcB\u0130TAK) as a 1507 TEYDEB<\/strong> project.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jan 2020 \u2013 2022<\/td>\nOptiWisdom Customer Journey Analysis (OWCJA)<\/td>\nPredictive and prescriptive analytics on customer \/ process journey. Available on www.owcja.com<\/p>\n

Completed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Nov 2019 \u2013 2022.<\/td>\nDeepMetrica<\/td>\nWeb analytics tool for screen recording of web-site visitors and providing explainable insights to the web-masters by using AI-engines.<\/p>\n

Spin-off:<\/strong> Founded the company: MeasurAI<\/p>\n

Since 2020, the project is supported by Turkish National Science Foundation (T\u00dcB\u0130TAK) as a 1507 TEYDEB<\/strong>project.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Feb. 2019<\/td>\n\u0130\u015f Bankas\u0131<\/td>\nData Analytics training for Is Bank Customer Relationship and Analytics with Knime<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sep 2019 \u2013 2023.<\/td>\nXchangeWiser<\/td>\nFinancial Robo-Advisor, Providing Financial Analytics with AI, powered by OptiScorer<\/strong>. Available on www.xchangewiser.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 2018 \u2013 2023.<\/td>\nOptiSegment<\/td>\nAutoML based segmentation engine. Since Jun 2019 it is funded by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) \u2013 1507 with project number: 7190398. The project development is completed<\/strong>, business development is still on going.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jun 2018 \u2013 2019.<\/td>\n\u0130stanbul Su Kanal \u0130daresi (\u0130SK\u0130)<\/p>\n

(Istanbul Sewer and Water Administration)<\/td>\n

Creating Big Data Platform and Big Data Analytics for Water Quality, Consumption Predictions, and Profiling Illegal Users and Fraud, Completed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apr 2018 \u2013 2019.<\/td>\nETS Tur , leading company in Tourism<\/td>\nScoring Customers and Hotels for advertisments and notifications on big data platform, Completed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 2018 \u2013 2019.<\/td>\nTurkcell<\/td>\nLeaded AI-Research collaborated with EVAM. Up Sell \/ cross sell models for customers, Completed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 2017 \u2013 2023.<\/td>\nOptiScorer<\/td>\nMulti 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.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 2017 \u2013 2019<\/td>\nACI (Affiliated Creditors Incorporated) , Collection agency based on Nashville, TN, US<\/td>\nScoring for debt collection. Completed<\/strong> and available project name now is CollectWiser.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nov 2017 \u2013 2021.<\/td>\nAkil YMM<\/td>\nAI Based auditing system for financial fraud.<\/p>\n

Spin-off<\/strong> : Founded company AutoAudit in 2020.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Jan 2017 \u2013 2021.<\/td>\nMLMatch, now continues as OptiMatcher<\/td>\nA Framework for auto Matching Machine Learning Problems with Machine Learning Algorithms and Techniqes. Project is now launched under the name OptiMatcher<\/strong>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/td>\nArvato CRM<\/td>\nData Preprocessing and ETL Processes on Knime for 1 week, Completed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/td>\nEnerjiSA, AYEDA\u015e<\/td>\nMachine Learning Programming with Python, for 2 weeks, Completed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>\nAlbaraka Turk<\/td>\nMachine Learning and Business Analytics Course for 1 month, Completed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018<\/td>\nParticipation Banks Association of Turkey<\/td>\nMachine Learning and Business Analytics course for 1 week, Completed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>\nVodafone Turkey<\/td>\nApache Cassandra and Big Data transformation Completed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016 – 2017<\/td>\nVodafone Turkey<\/td>\nData 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<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016<\/td>\nKontra Digital Services<\/td>\nDeveloping and Optimizing advertisement recommendation system for mobile users. Completed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015-2015<\/td>\nHavelsan Data Mining Project via Rapid Miner<\/td>\nSupported by Havelsan, Completed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015 \u2013 2016<\/td>\nCicekSepeti.com ,<\/td>\nDeveloping 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<\/p>\n

Supported by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) \u2013 1501 in collaboration with \u00c7i\u00e7ek Sepeti, Project No. 3150106<\/p>\n

\u00a0Completed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

2015 \u2013 2015<\/td>\nTUBITAK TUSSIDE (Gebze) Big Data Training Project<\/td>\nSupported by Turkish National Science Foundation TUSSIDE, Completed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015 – 2015<\/td>\nTUBITAK TUSSIDE Database Training Project<\/td>\n\u00a0Supported by Turkish National Science Foundation TUSSIDE, Completed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015 – 2016<\/td>\nSocial Media Campaign<\/td>\nSupported by the Turkish Ministry of Youth and Sports, Completed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2013 -2016<\/td>\nSocial Web Mining and Business Intelligence<\/td>\nSupported by Istanbul Medeniyet University, Research Projects Department under project number SBA-2014-438, Completed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2013 \u2013 2014<\/td>\nWeb based Reputation Index<\/td>\nSupported by Istanbul Medeniyet University, Research Projects Department under project number SUY-2013-450, Completed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2013<\/td>\nThe Impact of Employment Web Sites\u2019 Traffic on Unemployment: A Cross Country Comparison<\/td>\nSupported by Istanbul Medeniyet University, Research Projects Department under project number SUY-2013-437, Completed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2012 \u2013 2013<\/td>\nStream Mining Analysis on Blogs and Web Comments<\/td>\nUniversity of Texas at Dallas, computer science department, Supported by Turkish Higher Education Council, Post-Doc research support, Completed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2013<\/td>\nSentimental Analysis on Streaming Blogs and Twitter<\/td>\nat University of Texas at Dallas, computer science department, Supported by Supported by Turkish Higher Education Council Post-Doc research support, Completed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2012 \u2013 2013<\/td>\nEconomy news and stock market correlation for Turkey<\/td>\nat University of Texas at Dallas, computer science department, Supported by Supported by Turkish Higher Education Council Post-Doc research support, Completed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2012 \u2013 2013<\/td>\nData Mining Applications on Engineering Problems<\/td>\nSupported by Istanbul University Research Project Department under project number YADOP 27254, Completed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2012 \u2013 2013<\/td>\nSolving Statistical Optimisation Problems via Artificial Intelligence<\/td>\nSupported by Istanbul University Research Project Department under project number UDP 24502, Completed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2012 \u2013 2012<\/td>\nPost Doctoral Research<\/td>\nSupported by Higher Education Council of Turkey (Y\u00d6K), Completed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2012 \u2013 2012<\/td>\nEstimation of Elastic Modulus of Intact Rocks by Artificial Neural Network<\/td>\nSupported by Istanbul University Research Project Department under project number BYP 23343, Completed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011 \u2013 2012<\/td>\nSolving Statistical Optimisation Problems via Artificial Intelligence<\/td>\nSupported by Istanbul University Research Project Department under project number YADOP 16728, Completed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2006 \u2013 2008<\/td>\nLcWaikiki \u2013 TEMA Tekstil<\/td>\nTraining and Testing the professional qualification of information technology department personal, Completed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005<\/td>\nPayment Tracking and Budget Control Software<\/td>\nEksioglu Insaat, Completed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005 \u2013 2010<\/td>\nTemporal Logic Modelling for Turkish Natural Language<\/td>\nDepartment of Computer Engineering, Yildiz Technical University, Completed<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005 \u2013 2007<\/td>\nTurkish Speaking Search Engine (TuSSE)<\/td>\nPhD. Research Alterantive in Yildiz Technical Univeristy, Department of Computer Engineeringhttp:\/\/www.shedai.net\/tusse\/<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2003 \u2013 2004<\/td>\nSocial Impacts of Egovernment in Turkey<\/td>\nIstanbul Technical University, Institute of Social Sciences\u00a0http:\/\/www.shedai.net\/e-devlet\/egov.htm<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2002 \u2013 2004<\/td>\nStudent Registration System<\/td>\nYeditepe University, department of Computer Science and Engineering<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2002 \u2013 2003<\/td>\nTuJA \u2013 Turkish Natural Language to JAVA<\/td>\nYeditepe University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering\u00a0http:\/\/www.shedai.net\/~tuja\/<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2000 \u2013 2004<\/td>\nTurkish Speaking Assistant TuSA<\/td>\nYeditepe University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Artificial Intelligence Lab.\u00a0http:\/\/www.shedai.net\/tusa\/<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

MA. Presentations (2002 – 2004)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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