Semih Yagcioglu
Director Of AI at UC San Diego Extended Studies
Ankara, Ankara, Turkey
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Top SchoolSemih Yagcioglu is a Director of AI with 12 years of experience building and scaling ML-driven products and teams, currently leading Apziva to help candidates land ML roles and companies accelerate ML shipment across 65+ countries. He blends deep technical roots—from early work on Linux systems and GPS algorithms to leading research teams and building deepfake detection—with hands-on startup founding, mentoring, and angel investing. A seasoned mentor who has coached thousands of professionals and advised analytics and credit-scoring projects, he also serves on boards designing LLM-driven trading agents. With an academic backbone including a PhD in Computer Science and an MSc in Engineering Management, Semih combines rigorous research thinking with pragmatic product delivery and a knack for turning complex ML research into deployable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Hacettepe UniversityMSc Engineering Management, MSc Engineering Management at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical UniversityBSc Computer Engineering, BSc Computer Engineering at Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi
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Github Skills (28)
in-progress10
named-entity-recognition9
machine-translation9
language-processing9
datasets9
natural-language-processing9
android-app9
nlp9
machine-learning8
pytorch7
bert7
python7
increment7
kotlin7
swift6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
semihyagcioglu/talks
Mar 2014 - Apr 2017
Contributions:19 commits, 10 pushes in 3 years 1 month
semihyagcioglu/increment
Oct 2013 - Apr 2014
Contributions:59 commits in 5 months
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