Yavuz Alp Sencer ÖZTÜRK
Undergraduate Computer Science Student at Bilkent University
Bilkent University
Ankara, Turkey
I am a 4th year Computer Science student at Bilkent University, currently working as a Candidate Researcher Intern at TÜBİTAK BİLGEM (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey).
- Founding President of the Bilkent AI Society
- NVIDIA and Notion Community Leader at Bilkent University
- Research Intern on multimodal NLP at Utrecht University, Netherlands, under the supervision of Dr. Ece Takmaz and Prof. Albert Gatt
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Currently working on:
- Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Multimodal NLP
- Generative AI
My interests:
- Alignment (Artificial Intelligence)
- Philosophy (Mind, Metaphysics, Epistemology)
- Linguistic
- Personal Knowledge Management Systems
- Self Hosted Server Linux Projects (+60 services running on Docker on my own VPS (16 Gb RAM, 8vCPU) including my own website, my digital clone etc.)
- Running (Strava)
news
| Sep 18, 2024 | Won Best Project in the Amazon Competition at Bilkent University for the Rubber Duck AI project, developed with Yusuf Kesmen and Eray Yapağcı. Received a $4000 Gen AI Scholarship along with mentorship and referrals from Amazon. |
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| Aug 25, 2024 | The Maya (Multimodal Aya) project, which I was a member of, has been selected as “The Most Promising Project” at Cohere For AI’s AI expedition. |
| Jun 10, 2024 | Accepted to Utrecht University NLP Research Group as a Research Intern for summer 2024; granted Erasmus+ Traineeship Scholarship. |
| Apr 10, 2024 | Bilkent Online project has been accepted into the Microsoft Founders Hub and has received a grant worth over $5000 in total from Microsoft and OpenAI. |
| Jan 26, 2024 | Became NVIDIA Student Network Community Leader at Bilkent University |
| Jan 26, 2024 | Bilkent AI Society accepted into the NVIDIA Student Network program |
| Dec 25, 2023 | Bilkent Online project selected as the best project in the Bilkent University CS 319. |
| Dec 17, 2023 | Became Top Contributor of Cohere For AI Aya Project, ranked #16 in global leaderboard. |
| Sep 15, 2023 | Became the Notion Campus Leader of Bilkent University (one of the 2 CLs in Turkey). |
| Sep 10, 2023 | Became the Founding President of Bilkent AI Society |
| Jul 31, 2023 | Internship: TÜBİTAK BİLGEM B3LAB Software Development (NLP and LLMs) |
| Jun 20, 2023 | Internship: TÜBİTAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) Software Development Institute Software Development |
| May 10, 2023 | Founded the Bilkent AI Society with our core team. |
| Apr 8, 2022 | Awarded Turkish Education Foundation (TEV) Outstanding Achievement Scholarship |
| Mar 30, 2022 | Speaker at the opening talk for the STEM Education and Coordination Center. |
| Jan 2, 2022 | Launched the website and education portal for the STEM Education and Coordination Center for gifted students. (Funded by the European Union and the Turkish Ministry of Education) |
| Sep 17, 2021 | Ranked 3rd at TEKNOFEST 2021 Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Competition (World’s Largest Aviation, Space and Technology Festival) |
| Sep 30, 2020 | Started Computer Engineering degree at Bilkent University. |