Summary
Utku Turk is a PhD candidate in Linguistics at the University of Maryland with eight years of research and teaching experience spanning computational and field linguistics. As a Graduate Research Fellow and former research assistant at Boğaziçi University, he has worked on deep learning for Turkish dependency parsing and on contact-induced morphosyntactic change between Greek and Turkish. He combines hands-on computational modeling with classroom experience—having taught and assisted multiple core linguistics courses and language programs. His background in translation and consecutive interpreting informs a practical, cross-cultural approach to language data and annotation. Having studied as a visiting student at UCLA and Masaryk University, he brings international training and interdisciplinary perspective to language technology problems. Colleagues can expect a researcher who bridges theoretical insight, applied NLP methods, and multilingual fieldwork experience.
8 years of coding experience
Visiting Student, Linguistics, Visiting Student, Linguistics at Masaryk University Brno
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Linguistics at University of Maryland
Visiting Student, Linguistics, Visiting Student, Linguistics at University of California, Los Angeles
Master of Arts - MA, Linguistics, Master of Arts - MA, Linguistics at Boğaziçi University
Turkish, English, Spanish