Atahan Uz
İstanbul, Turkey ✉️ atahanuz1@gmail.com PDF CV ⬇️
AI Engineer & Researcher | Pre-training SOTA LLMs | Agentic Multimodal Systems
With extensive research and development experience, I am passionate about pushing the boundaries of AI.
Education
- Boğaziçi University, MSc in Computer Engineering, 2025– Present
- Yıldız Technical University, BSc in Computer Engineering, 2021– 2025
Experience
- AI Engineer, TEB Arf (Jan 2026- Present)
- Data Scientist, Odeon Software & Technology (May 2025– Jan 2026)
- Building Agentic Multimodal AI Systems where users can book holiday reservations by speaking.
- Internal RAG-based tools for HR, enabling semantic search and automated assessment of candidate CVs.
- NLP Research Engineer, TÜBİTAK BİLGEM (Jul 2024– Mar 2025)
- Turkish Language Project: Pre-training, finetuning (LoRA, DPO, GRPO…) and evaluating SOTA Turkish language models.
- Implementing data extraction pipelines from ÖSYM exam documents using VLMs like Qwen for structured information retrieval.
- AI Engineer Intern, CBOT (Jun 2024– Jul 2024)
- Implementing custom chatbot and intent classification solutions for corporate clients such as Halkbank, Pegasus and Getir.
- Undergraduate Researcher, Yıldız Technical University (Dec 2023– Jan 2025)
- Researcher for TÜBİTAK Project "Cooperative Language Models", coordinated by Prof. Fatih Amasyalı.
Research
- Researcher, Boğaziçi Text Analytics and BioInformatics Lab (Jul 2025– Present)
- Co-Founder & Researcher, COSMOS AI Research Group (Dec 2023– Sep 2025)
- AI Specialization Program Participant, T.C Sanayi ve Teknoloji Bakanlığı (Dec 2023– Jul 2024)
Papers
- Creating a Large Clean Web Corpus for Turkish, ICMI 2025 conference ↗
- Cosmos-LLaVA: Chatting with the Visual, IDAP 2024 Conference ↗
- Optimizing LLMs for Turkish: New Methodologies in Corpus Selection and Training, ASYU 2024 Conference ↗
- Introducing cosmosGPT: Monolingual Training for Turkish Language Models, INISTA 2024 Conference ↗
- Comparison of Turkish Language Models, SIU 2024 Conference, ↗
Total Citations: 42, h-index: 3 (As of Jan 2026)
Mobile Apps
- Easy Stock Data
- COSMOS Mobile
Skills
C
Java
Javascript
Python
PostgreSQL
LLMs (Pre-training, Fine-tuning, Evaluation, Inference)
RAG & Multi-agent AI Pipelines
Embedding Models
Visual & Speech Models
Hyperparameter Optimization (Optuna)
Multi-GPU Clusters (e.g. 16x H200)
Android & iOS Development
Google Play & App Store
Web Scraping & Data Analysis
Machine Learning (XGBoost)
Classical NLP
Google Cloud Platform
Publishing Libraries (PIP & Maven)
Awards
- 🥇 1st place , TEKNOFEST 2024 Adana Trendyol E-Ticaret Hackathon)
- 🥈 2nd place, TEKNOFEST 2024 Antalya T3 AI Hackathon
Conferences
- 2025 Diva: Dive into AI Conference, Istanbul, Speaker ↗
- 2024 STRATCOM Summit, Istanbul, Exhibitor
- 2024 ASYU Conference, Online, Presented Paper