Yavuz Alp Sencer ÖZTÜRK
Undergraduate Computer Science Student at Bilkent University
Bilkent University
Ankara, Turkey
I am,
- 3rd year Computer Science student at Bilkent University 👨💻
- Software Engineer Intern at TÜBİTAK BİLGEM (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) 🤖
- Bilkent AI Society, President
Blog | Projects | Code | Chat | Contact
Currently working on:
- Natural Language Processing (LLMs)
- Generative AI
- Backend Development
My interests:
- Alignment (Artificial Intelligence)
- Multimodal LLMs
- Philosophy (Mind, Metaphysics, Epistemology)
- Linguistic
- Personal Knowledge Management Systems
- Self Hosted Server Linux Projects
news
| Jun 10, 2024 | Accepted to Utrecht University NLP Research Group as a Research Intern for summer 2024; granted Erasmus+ Traineeship Scholarship. |
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| Apr 10, 2024 | Bilkent Online project has been accepted into the Microsoft Founders Hub and has received a grant worth over $5000 in total from Microsoft and OpenAI. |
| Jan 26, 2024 | Became NVIDIA Student Network Community Leader at Bilkent University |
| Jan 26, 2024 | Bilkent AI Society accepted into the NVIDIA Student Network program |
| Dec 25, 2023 | Bilkent Online project selected as the best project in the Bilkent University CS 319. |
| Dec 17, 2023 | Became Top Contributor of Cohere For AI Aya Project, ranked #16 in global leaderboard. |
| Sep 15, 2023 | Became the Notion Campus Leader of Bilkent University (one of the 2 CLs in Turkey). |
| Sep 10, 2023 | Became the Founding President of Bilkent AI Society |
| Jul 31, 2023 | Internship: TÜBİTAK BİLGEM B3LAB Software Development (NLP and LLMs) |
| Jun 20, 2023 | Internship: TÜBİTAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) Software Development Institute Software Development |
| May 10, 2023 | Founded the Bilkent AI Society with our core team. |
| Apr 8, 2022 | Awarded Turkish Education Foundation (TEV) Outstanding Achievement Scholarship |
| Mar 30, 2022 | Speaker at the opening talk for the STEM Education and Coordination Center. |
| Jan 2, 2022 | Launched the website and education portal for the STEM Education and Coordination Center for gifted students. (Funded by the European Union and the Turkish Ministry of Education) |
| Sep 17, 2021 | Ranked 3rd at TEKNOFEST 2021 Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Competition (World’s Largest Aviation, Space and Technology Festival) |
| Sep 30, 2020 | Started Computer Engineering degree at Bilkent University. |