Work / Education History

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

 

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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