Atahan Uz
İstanbul, Turkey ✉️ atahanuz1@gmail.com PDF CV ⬇️
Data Scientist | NLP Researcher | MSc in Computer Engineering
About Me
As a data scientist, software engineer and NLP researcher, I am passionate about pushing the boundaries of AI and building software that enhances people's lives.
Education
- Boğaziçi University, MSc in Computer Engineering, 2025– Present
- Yıldız Technical University, BSc in Computer Engineering, 2021– 2025
Experience
- Data Scientist, Odeon Software & Technology (May 2025– Present)
- NLP Research Engineer, TÜBİTAK BİLGEM (Sep 2024– Mar 2025)
- NLP Research Engineer Intern, TÜBİTAK BİLGEM (Jul 2024- Sep 2024)
- AI Engineer Intern, CBOT (Jun 2024– Jul 2024)
Research
- Researcher, Boğaziçi Text Analytics and BioInformatics Lab (Jul 2025– Present)
- Co-Founder& Researcher, COSMOS AI Research Group (Dec 2023–Present)
- AI Specialization Program Participant, T.C Sanayi ve Teknoloji Bakanlığı (Dec 2023– Jul 2024)
- Research Scholar, TÜBİTAK 1001 Research Funding Program (Mar 2024- Jan 2025)
Papers
- Creating a Large Clean Web Corpus for Turkish, to be published in 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: 29, h-index: 3 (As of Aug 2025)
Mobile Apps
- Easy Stock Data (Google Play)
- COSMOS Mobile (Google Play, App Store)
Skills
C
Java
Python
PostgreSQL
Machine Learning
NLP
Fine Tuning
Evaluating LLMs
Data Science
Android & iOS Development
Google Play Console & App Store Connect
Google Cloud Platform
Multi-GPU Clusters
Conferences
- 2025 Diva: Dive into AI Conference, Istanbul, Speaker ↗
- 2024 STRATCOM Summit, Istanbul, Exhibitor
- 2024 ASYU Conference, Online, Presented Paper
Awards
- 🥇 1st place, TEKNOFEST 2024 Adana Trendyol E-Ticaret Hackathon)
- 🥈 2nd place, TEKNOFEST 2024 Antalya T3 AI Hackathon
- 🥇 1st place, Fenerbahçe College Science Olympiads
- 🥉 3rd place, First Lego League Robotic Contest