Tuğrulcan Elmas
Assistant Professor at The University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTuğrulcan Elmas is an Assistant Professor at the University of Edinburgh and co-director of the SMASH lab, specializing in AI-driven detection of disinformation and harmful campaigns on social media. With a PhD from EPFL and a decade of research experience, he has published in top venues like IEEE S&P and ICWSM and had his work covered by major outlets including Al Jazeera and ACM TechNews. He leads a small research team, mentors PhD students and a postdoc, and teaches Text Technologies within Data Science and Computational Social Science. Beyond academia, he demystifies AI for public audiences via a YouTube channel aimed at countering AI misinformation, and his doctoral work exposed ephemeral astroturfing tactics used to game social platforms. His background spans international research environments (EPFL, Indiana University, NUS exchange) and student leadership connecting academic and diplomatic communities.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Beşiktaş Atatürk Anadolu LisesiComputer Science, Philosophy Minor, Computer Science, Philosophy Minor at Bilkent ÜniversitesiNilüfer Milli Piyango Anadolu LisesiExchange, Exchange at National University of SingaporeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Turkish, English, Chinese, French
Github Skills (28)
twitter-api-v210
twitter-api10
twitter9
java9
distributed-computing9
api8
distributed-systems8
big-data7
python7
command-line-tool6
json6
cli5
machine-learning5
data-science4
classification3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tugrulz/tugrulz.github.io
May 2018 - Apr 2025
Contributions:50 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 11 months
tugrulz/EphemeralAstroturfing
Feb 2021 - Dec 2024
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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