Deniz Sargun
Applied Scientist 2 at Amazon
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolDeniz Sargun is an Applied Scientist with nine years of experience focused on search and recommendation systems, currently shaping discovery features at Amazon from Sunnyvale. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Ohio State University with a near-perfect academic record and a graduate minor in Computer Science, bringing strong theoretical foundations to production ML. Deniz has repeatedly bridged research and engineering—designing learning-to-rank algorithms and training deep learning models during multiple Amazon internships before joining full-time. His background in mathematics and electrical engineering informs a rigorous, metrics-driven approach to relevance and ranking problems, and he has hands-on experience prototyping solutions from MATLAB/VHDL experiments to large-scale search infrastructure. Colleagues describe him as someone who translates complex academic ideas into measurable product gains while maintaining a researcher’s curiosity about model behavior.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Scholar Development Program, High School, Scholar Development Program at TED Ankara KolejiDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, 3.97 (major), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, 3.97 (major) at The Ohio State UniversityBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mathematics, 3.99, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mathematics, 3.99 at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University
Turkish, English, German, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github contributions (5)
denizsargun/change-detection
Nov 2017 - Jul 2021
Contributions:167 commits, 155 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
denizsargun/compressed-sensing
Jan 2019 - Mar 2019
Contributions:37 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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