Research
I'm excited to pursue new discoveries in the field AI! Here’s the research I’ve been part of with two academic organizations, as well as my own independent studies
Text Analytics and BioInformatics Lab, Boğaziçi University
TABI is a research lab at Boğaziçi University Computer Engineering department that conducts research in language models, machine translation and Bioinformatics
https://tabilab.cmpe.bogazici.edu.tr
We'll come with updates soon!
COSMOS AI Research Group, Yildiz Technical University
I was one of the founding members of COSMOS, the NLP nonprofit research group led by Prof. Mehmet Fatih Amasyalı, publishing cutting-edge Turkish LLMs and research papers.
https://cosmos.yildiz.edu.tr
Our Achievements
- Open-source Turkish language models that top popular leaderboards
- The first Deepseek R1-like "thinking" Turkish LLM↗
- Research papers accepted by leading conferences and cited many times
- Innovative products (COSMOS Mobile Apps, COSMOS LLM, COSMOS VLM) that let users try language and vision models through a practical interface
- Teams formed by our members earned 4 degrees in TEKNOFEST, along with numerous prizes in other hackathons
My Role I had in COSMOS
- Building LLM evaluation systems
- Creating pipelines to extract LLM-friendly data from PDFs
- Hyperparameter Optimization during LLM training and inference
- Developing COSMOS App Store & Google Play apps
- Social media management (LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, Website)
- Communications, accounting and recruitment.
Our presentation at Diva conference:
My Research 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: 40, h-index: 3 (As of Jan 2026)