Doruk Kilitcioglu
Director, Data Science
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDoruk Kilitcioglu is a Director of Data Science at Fidelity with 11 years of experience applying machine learning to personalization and recommender systems. He blends research-grade expertise in NLP, Bayesian statistics, time series and deep learning with hands-on engineering in Python, Java and scalable tooling like TensorFlow, scikit-learn and Hadoop. A former NYU MSCS adjunct and music recommendation researcher, he has pushed production improvements—such as accelerating playlist builds—by translating algorithmic advances into measurable product impact. He brings cross-domain experience from bioinformatics to finance, a proven track record of shipping large-scale personalization features, and an unusual balance of analytical rigor and creative curiosity informed by interests in music performance and Renaissance art.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Incoming Exchange, Incoming Exchange at The University of QueenslandMasters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at New York UniversityHigh School, High School at Robert CollegeBachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering at Boğaziçi University
English, Japanese, Turkish
Github Skills (47)
manifold10
markov-decision-processes10
reward10
pattern-mining9
machine-learning9
fraud-detection9
factorization9
nlp9
recommender9
python8
svd8
collaborative-filtering8
natural-language-processing8
youtube-dl8
jekyll8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dorukkilitcioglu/persistd
Jul 2018 - Dec 2022
Contributions:43 pushes, 2 tags, 23 comments in 4 years 5 months
bounswe/bounswe2015group8
May 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:80 commits, 17 PRs, 60 pushes in 8 months
reactjavascriptculturalreactjsshare
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