Ömer Çağatan
Research Engineer at KUIS AI Center
Istanbul, Türkiye Turkey
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Top SchoolÖmer Çağatan is a research engineer and senior Computer Engineering student at Koç University with four years of hands-on experience in AI research and applied NLP. He has worked across academia and industry on data-efficient reinforcement learning, low-resource language modeling, and text embeddings, and delivered SOTA Turkish sentiment models using BERT/RoBERTa during an NLP internship. At KUIS AI Center and as an undergraduate researcher he blends theory with practical algorithm design, while teaching and tutoring roles demonstrate clear communication of complex quantitative concepts. Based in Istanbul, he stays current with cutting-edge methodologies and seeks collaborations that push AI toward resource-efficient, language-inclusive solutions. Notably, his profile reflects a researcher who balances competitive model-building with pedagogy and real-world deployment experience.
3 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Lisans Derecesi, Computer Engineering, Lisans Derecesi, Computer Engineering at Koç Üniversitesi
İngilizce, Turkish
Github Skills (85)
similarity-search10
ivy10
multilabel-classification10
benchmark10
neural-search10
python10
abstraction10
semantic-search10
leaderboard10
deep-learning10
bug-reporting10
embedding10
clustering10
audio10
nlp10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
asparius/mteb
Apr 2024 - Sep 2024
MTEB: Massive Text Embedding Benchmark
Contributions:52 pushes, 10 branches in 4 months
asparius/asparius.github.io
Feb 2023 - Nov 2024
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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