Irem Ergun
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Cohere
Riverside, California, United States
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Top SchoolIrem Ergun is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with a decade of experience bridging theoretical research and production ML, currently advancing post-training, instruction-following, and long-context performance for large language models at Cohere. Previously a C.Phil. candidate in theoretical cryptography, she pivoted to applied privacy-preserving and federated learning, co-authoring papers at ICLR SRML and Globecom and mentoring undergraduate researchers. Her background includes deploying ML solutions in industry—from malware detection and NLP data unification to iOS engineering—giving her a rare blend of systems-level engineering and research rigor. Based in Riverside, CA, she’s known internally as a “research fairy”: a practitioner who turns cutting-edge ML research into robust models and tooling that improve real-world LLM behavior.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Nanodegree, Natural Language Processing, Nanodegree, Natural Language Processing at UdacityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of California, RiversideBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Bilkent UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Ankara Atatürk Lisesi
Spanish, English, Turkish
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Github Skills (26)
communication-efficient10
python9
distributed-computing9
federated-learning9
dialogue-systems9
nlp8
streamlit8
chatbot8
developer-tools8
deep-learning8
conversational-ai8
machine-learning8
conversation8
pytorch8
tooling7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
irombie/federated_learning
Jun 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:23 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
irombie/ToDoList
Jul 2017 - Jun 2022
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
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