Kaan Sancak
Research Engineer at Meta
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Top SchoolKaan Sancak is a research engineer at Meta and a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Georgia Tech with nine years of experience bridging academic research and industry-scale AI systems. His work focuses on ranking and foundational AI, building on multiple research internships at Meta and national labs that emphasize co-design of AI systems and scalable model evaluation. Based in Menlo Park, he combines deep theoretical training with hands-on engineering from internships at IBM and PNNL and long-term research at Georgia Tech. Kaan’s trajectory shows a knack for translating cutting-edge research into production-relevant solutions, and his early open-source contributions (including a Google Summer of Code project integrating PathwayMapper into cBioPortal) hint at a practical, collaborative approach to tooling and reproducibility.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor's of Science B.Sc. Computer Science, Bachelor's of Science B.Sc. Computer Science at Bilkent UniversityAnkara Gazi Anadolu High School
Turkish, English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (78)
notebook10
network-visualization10
cancer-genomics10
recall10
recommender-system10
systems-biology10
computer-vision10
kaggle10
layout10
reinforcement-learning10
gaussian-processes10
cytoscapejs10
gluon10
sbml10
keras10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kaansancak/1B.battlecity-cs319
Sep 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:1 release, 134 commits, 25 PRs in 2 years 1 month
battlecitygame
kaansancak/newt
Dec 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:16 pushes in 5 months
sbgnpathwayvisualizeweb-applicationvisualization
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