Burcin Bozkaya
Board Member, Strategic Leadership Board
Sarasota, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBurcin Bozkaya is an accomplished analytics and data science leader with a strong academic foundation (Ph.D. in Management Science) and over two decades of experience translating research into practice across academia, industry, and nonprofit boards. Currently a Senior Developer Relations Manager at NVIDIA and a Board Member on the COIN-OR Strategic Leadership Board, she bridges advanced analytics, operations research, and developer communities to drive adoption of optimization and AI technologies. Her career includes founding a data-focused consultancy, directing behavioral analytics research labs, and leading graduate data science programs, demonstrating a rare mix of entrepreneurial, academic, and program leadership. She has held visiting roles at MIT and MIT Sloan and served as associate dean and program director, reflecting deep experience in curriculum design and interdisciplinary collaboration. Based in Sarasota, Florida, Burcin is known for turning complex optimization problems into actionable tools and for cultivating ecosystems that connect research, education, and industry impact. A practical innovator, she often pairs rigorous modeling with user-centered deployment to ensure analytics deliver measurable organizational value.
3 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Management Science, Ph.D. Management Science at University of AlbertaBS MS Industrial Engineering, BS MS Industrial Engineering at Bilkent UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Ankara Fen Lisesi
English, Turkish
Github Skills (29)
sequential10
recommender-system9
huggingface9
nlp9
recommender8
pytorch8
merlin7
machine-learning7
bert7
transformer7
deep-learning6
gpu6
language-model6
recommendation-system6
feature-selection6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
bbozkaya/merlin-milvus
Jun 2023 - Jul 2023
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 16 days
bbozkaya/systems
Mar 2023 - May 2023
Merlin Systems provides tools for combining recommendation models with other elements of production recommender systems (like feature stores, nearest neighbor search, and exploration strategies) into end-to-end recommendation pipelines that can be served with Triton Inference Server.
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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