KocDigital (2021 – 2023) Data Scientist 

• Assisted in an R&D (Reinforcement Learning) project on task allocation of a multi-robot system.

• Implemented Conservative Q-learning (CQN) and Soft Actor Critic (SAC) algorithms for credit pricing problem in banking sector.

• Developed a wildfire prediction model for Turkey’s Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. The project was supported by World Economic Forum and presented in Davos.

• Worked on the DaaS (Data as a Service) project, in which I was responsible for building prediction models for inflation, interest rate, and currency rates.

DenizBank Head Office (2019 – 2021) Data Scientist 

• Developed collection (self-cure and roll forward) models for overdraft and mortgage credits.

• Collaborated with BDDK (Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency) on the EWS (early warning signal) project.

• Tested & developed probability of default (PD) models of the bank.

• Worked on limit optimization for general purpose loan (GPL).

The project was featured in the news.

Labs & Projects:

Omdena | Graph-Based Learning (2019)

• Used graph-based learning to find the best route for families to get reunited aftermath of expected Istanbul earthquake.


Koc University & Inzva | Computer Vision for Autonomous Driving (2020)

• AI labs joint program where the following topics were covered under the supervision of Asst. Prof. Fatma Guney: Object detection, visual object tracking, semantic segmentation.


Inzva | Using Decision Transformer in Drone Environment (2021)

• We have trained the Decision Transformer agent in Pybullet’s drone simulator environment and compared the results with the model-free RL benchmarks.