Ercan Canhasi
Assoc. Prof. Dr. at Gjirafa - The Albanian Search Engine
Prizren District, Kosovo
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Top SchoolErcan Canhasi is an Associate Professor and computer scientist with 11 years of professional experience bridging academic research and product-building in text mining, NLP, and machine learning. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Ljubljana and has published extensively on text summarization and information retrieval while mentoring students and teaching across institutions including a visiting role at the University of Groningen. As Co-Founder, CTO and CSO of Gjirafa he has translated research insights into a regionally focused search product, demonstrating both entrepreneurial drive and technical leadership. His background spans hands-on software development since the early 2000s to advanced cognitive modeling research, giving him a rare combination of practical engineering, academic rigor, and product sensibility. Based in Kosovo, he continues to push AI research forward while shaping the next generation of engineers in the Balkans.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D in Computer Science and Informatics, Faculty of Computer Science and Informatics, Ph.D in Computer Science and Informatics, Faculty of Computer Science and Informatics at Univerza v LjubljaniM.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, M.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Selçuk Üniversitesi
English, Albanian, Turkish, Serbian, Slovenian
Github Skills (8)
xilinx4
deep-learning3
machine-learning3
pytorch3
aws3
opencl2
cpp2
fpga2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ErcanCanhasi/python-app
Jan 2025 - Jan 2025
Contributions:21 pushes, 2 branches in 5 days
ErcanCanhasi/FastDocumentSummarization
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 1 day
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