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Finalist and Honorable Mention Award winner at Huawei Tech Arena Finland 2025
Huawei Finland R&D (Läkkisepäntie 23), Helsinki/FinlandClick to view location on the map
12/2025
Finalist and Honorable Mention winner for an innovative solution at Huawei Tech Arena Finland. Features 'Gralobe', a 3D globe transitions library.
Winner of Best Technical Solution Award at Berlin State Library Hackathon
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Berlin/GermanyClick to view location on the map
10/2025
Won Best Technical Solution for creating 'Real Coin Map' - a dashboard visualizing ancient coins and mints using AI and embeddings to solve numismatic challenges.
3rd Place (Zama) & Pool Prize (ENS) at ETHRome 2025
Via Ostiense, 92, Rome/ItalyClick to view location on the map
10/2025
Built 'SecSanta' - a privacy-focused group gifting platform where individuals can pool funds and let recipients choose their own gifts while keeping individual contributions secret using Web3 privacy technologies.
Expert Mentor at NASA Space Apps Challenge in Zurich
10/2025
3rd Place at the First Sui Hackathon in Poland
triQube - Inkubator Przedsiębiorczości, Wroclaw/PolandClick to view location on the map
07/2025
Won 3rd place and $500 at the first offline Sui hackathon in Poland after joining late, hacking solo, and with no prior Sui or Move experience.
Lead Jury & Mentor at Decarbon Days Climathon
Decarbon Days, Cottbus/GermanyClick to view location on the map
06/2025
Lead jury & mentor at a climate hackathon by Decarbon Days, BTU Cottbus, and Zielona Gora University.
Winner with distinction 'Open Source' in Music & AI Hackathon in Japan. Participation in World Expo as VIP of Austria
Gyokuzoin Temple, Mount Shigi, Nara/JapanClick to view location on the map
06/2025
Built 'Slai' - an innovative VR-pen based music equalizer system using Logitech MX Ink, allowing musicians to control frequency bands through spatial movements. Won Open Source distinction and participated in World Expo 2025.
Finalist at European Defense Tech Competition 2025 Munich
02/2025
Winner of Balderton Capital Challenge at {Tech: Berlin} AI Hackathon
01/2025
Outstanding Award Winner at Huawei AI Individual Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) Competition
Huawei Research Center, Munich/GermanyClick to view location on the map
12/2024 - 01/2025
Estimating HRTFs from multi-view pinna images.
Master's Thesis: (TEA) Trajectory Encoding Augmentation for Robust and Transferable Policies in Offline Reinforcement Learning
Siemens AG, Munich/GermanyClick to view location on the map
12/2024
(Grade: 1.0) (Accepted at ESANN 2025)
Finalist at LauzHack 2024: VR Classroom for Focus Improvement
11/2024
1st Place at the biggest Tourism Technology Festival in Europe
Alles Für den GAST, Salzburg/AustriaClick to view location on the map
11/2024
We built a touristic spot recommendation system that uses EEG data and machine learning, and won the Tourism Technology Festival in Salzburg, where we were rewarded 2500 Eur and also partially awarded a trip to japan where there'd be a Music & AI hackathon in a 1000 year old temple in Nara.
Awarded 7000 CHF by the City of Zurich: AI-Based Employee Surveying Platform
Kraftwerk, Zurich/SwitzerlandClick to view location on the map
11/2024
Awarded funding for co-designing an AI-based employee surveying platform to enable sustainability and climate-related discussions between employees and employers. Pilot project currently planned in Zurich.
2nd Place at Bayer AI Innovation Platform Hackathon
Google Office, Munich/GermanyClick to view location on the map
10/2024
We helped test the up-and-coming AI innovation platform built by Bayer based on Google Cloud Platform. We found valuable bugs and managed to solve a set of computer vision and bioinformatics related tasks.
2nd Place at DSAG Ideathon
DSAG Jahreskonferenz, Leipzig/GermanyClick to view location on the map
10/2024
We built a RL-based intricate fraud detection solution and pitched in front of 6000+ SAP user company CEO/CIO/CFO and experts. We later discussed partnership opportunities with many of them.
Best Business Opportunity Award Winner at Circular Hackfest
10/2024
1st Place at Thüga Solutions Hackathon
Thüga Solutions, Munich/GermanyClick to view location on the map
09/2024
Cost minimization for tenants and landlords through energy management using AI (multivariate forecasters, neural networks, …), and Mathematical Optimization (interior-point methods) (Role: FullStack, Cloud, RL).
2nd Place at Solana Superteam Ideathon
09/2024
1st Place on Swiss Exchange Track & Audience Award at SwissHacks2024
SIX Swiss Exchange, Zurich/SwitzerlandClick to view location on the map
06/2024
Developed "BizzWizz", an AI-driven sustainability reporting assistance platform. Also presented in front of VC & on PointZero forum. Talks ongoing with Swiss Exchange business developers regarding turning this idea into a company.
3rd Place at HackUPC (Sponsor: Intersystems)
UPC, Barcelona/SpainClick to view location on the map
05/2024
Advanced Travel Planning w/ user-interest & city-description embeddings using Intersystems Vector Search (Role: Fullstack Dev., Presenter). We got 3rd place out of 30+ teams.
Proof of Concept: Detecting line-breaks in football matches
01/2024
2nd Place at Dräger hackathon
Dräger, Lübeck/GermanyClick to view location on the map
10/2023
Predicting heart attacks through sensor readings (Role: AI Engineer).
1st Place (Main Track) at the first Ethereum-focused hackathon in Munich
PretzelDAO & TUM, Munich/GermanyClick to view location on the map
08/2023
Built an NFT similarity judging tool (Role: Team Lead).
1st Place at MSG Code & Create Hackathon
MSG, Karlsruhe/GermanyClick to view location on the map
06/2023
Built a CO-2-considerate route planner which won a hackathon organized by Münchner Softwaregesellschaft (MSG).
Bachelor's Thesis: Cat identification using Noseprints
Turkish-German University, Beykoz/TurkeyClick to view location on the map
06/2022
Cat identification using noseprints and siamese networks.
First student ever to graduate from TGU with Perfect GPA
Turkish-German University, Beykoz/TurkeyClick to view location on the map
06/2022
I was the first student ever to graduate from any faculty of the Turkish-German University with a perfect GPA.