Atıf Yüksel
Staff Data Scientist
Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
Summary
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Top SchoolAtıf Yüksel is a Staff Data Scientist based in Ankara with eight years of experience building production-ready ML and time-series systems across retail, finance, and pharma. He progressed from hands-on model development—implementing AutoML forecasting frameworks, LSTM and ensemble stacking approaches—to leading teams and shipping customer segmentation and predictive journey models at scale. He has deep practical NLP experience, having implemented a financial sentiment pipeline from research paper to PyTorch/HuggingFace production models. Comfortable pair-programming and coding end-to-end, he blends research-driven curiosity with pragmatic engineering, often turning academic ideas into robust, deployable solutions. Notably, he has a Boğaziçi MS in Computer Science and a track record of applying custom neural and ensemble methods to real business problems.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Prof. Dr. İlhan Kılıçözlü Fen LisesiMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Boğaziçi University
İngilizce, Turkish
Github Skills (67)
regression10
computation10
kaggle10
classification10
data-mining10
r9
gradient-boosting9
gradient9
forecasts9
high-performance9
scalable9
cpython9
python9
datasets9
gpu9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
atifemreyuksel/doc_hatespeech_detection
Nov 2022 - Jan 2024
Document level hate speech detection
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 1 month
hatehate-speechspeech-recognitionspeech-detectiondocument-level
atifemreyuksel/learning_without_forgetting
Dec 2020 - Feb 2021
Learning without Forgetting paper implementation
Contributions:21 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
deep-learningpaper-implementationmachine-learning
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