Savaş Yıldırım
NLP Researcher Visiting Professor at Ryerson University
Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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Top SchoolSavaş Yıldırım is an NLP researcher and visiting professor with over 20 years of experience blending academic research and industrial R&D in machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing. He holds a PhD in NLP and has taught and led research at Istanbul Bilgi University, Toronto Metropolitan University, and Ryerson, with a postdoc at the University of Tübingen. His work spans transformers, few‑shot and prompt‑based methods, explainable AI, and practical deployments—authoring open-source Turkish NLP tools and pretrained BERT models used on Hugging Face. A frequent consultant on funded projects (e.g., multilingual information extraction, public‑health NLP for opioid surveillance, and recruitment automation), he pairs deep theoretical knowledge with hands‑on engineering in Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch and spaCy. Notably, he maintains an active open-source presence (Turkish-Bert-NLP-Pipeline) and a long track record of translating research into production-ready resources.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Information Technology, Master of Science (MS), Information Technology at Istanbul Technical UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Natural Language Processing, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Natural Language Processing at Trakya University
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Github Skills (67)
transformers10
language-model10
python10
flax10
datasets10
deep-learning10
speech10
computer-vision10
transformer10
nlp10
jax10
multiclass-classification10
seq2seq10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
savasy/cmpe343
Feb 2018 - Jan 2022
Contributions:26 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
PacktPublishing/Mastering-Transformers
Mar 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:28 commits, 28 pushes in 10 months
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