Ozgur Ozturk
Adjunct Faculty at University of Maryland Baltimore County
Roswell, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOzgur Ozturk is a Senior Data Architect and AI/ML leader with 15+ years building enterprise-grade AI, NLP, and information retrieval systems across healthcare, finance, and tech. He combines deep research credentials—a PhD in Computer Science—with hands-on delivery at organizations like Kaiser Permanente, Genpact, Nasdaq, and Oracle, shipping production knowledge graphs, LLM-enabled search, and predictive pipelines. Skilled across cloud, microservices, full-stack engineering, and graph data science, he has a track record of turning research (award-winning ACM/IEEE publications) into operational products that influence care and marketing decisions. As an educator and adjunct instructor, he mentors the next generation of data scientists while pursuing an EMBA focused on AI strategy, signaling a shift toward product and business-aligned AI leadership. Notably, he led projects that combined Neo4j graph embeddings with scikit-learn for patient targeting and evaluated multiple GenAI platforms to optimize real-world Q&A and search. Based in Roswell, GA, he blends academic rigor with pragmatic engineering to align cutting-edge AI to measurable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
EMBA, Strategic Leadership, EMBA, Strategic Leadership at Quantic School of Business and TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Engineering at Bilkent UniversityHigh School Diploma, Science and Mathematics, High School Diploma, Science and Mathematics at Ankara Fen LisesiMiddle School, English, Science and Mathematics, Middle School, English, Science and Mathematics at HASALMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science and Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science and Engineering at Oregon Health & Science UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University
English, Turkish, beginner german
Github Skills (54)
kotlin9
statistics9
kotlin-android9
jetpack-compose9
pip8
python8
android8
python-modules8
player8
python-development8
anomaly-detection7
data-science7
machine-learning7
virtualenv7
material-design7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
DataSciencePros/data_science_workshop
Aug 2018 - Oct 2021
A broad review initial data analysis using pandas, and creating predictive models using scikit-learn and evaluating them.
Contributions:13 commits, 4 PRs, 36 pushes in 3 years 2 months
data-analysispandasscikit-learn
DataSciencePros/PythonDataScience
Feb 2019 - Feb 2025
Contributions:3 pushes in 6 years 1 month
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