Past Project Samples

MINOR ACHIEVEMENT

(Ongoing) Finalist at Huawei AI Individual Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) Competition

Huawei Research Center, Munich/Germany

12/2024 - 01/2025

Master's Thesis: (TEA) Trajectory Encoding Augmentation for Robust and Transferable Policies in Offline Reinforcement Learning

Siemens AG, Munich/Germany

12/2024

(Grade: 1.0) (Submitted to a conference, currently under review)

MINOR ACHIEVEMENT

Finalist at LauzHack 2024: VR Classroom for Focus Improvement

EPFL, Lausanne/Switzerland

11/2024

1st Place at the biggest Tourism Technology Festival in Europe

Alles Für den GAST, Salzburg/Austria

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/Switzerland

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/Germany

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/Germany

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.

MINOR ACHIEVEMENT

Best Business Opportunity Award Winner at Circular Hackfest

Makerspace, Munich/Germany

10/2024

1st Place at Thüga Solutions Hackathon

Thüga Solutions, Munich/Germany

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).

MINOR ACHIEVEMENT

2nd Place at Solana Superteam Ideathon

TUM Blockchain Conference, Munich/Germany

09/2024

1st Place on Swiss Exchange Track & Audience Award at SwissHacks2024

SIX Swiss Exchange, Zurich/Switzerland

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/Spain

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.

2nd Place (team) & 1st Place (individual) at TUM AI Makeathon Main Challenge (Sponsor: Reply S.p.A.)

TUM AI Makeathon, Munich/Germany

04/2024

Wind Turbine Preventive Maintenance Through Reinforcement Learning (Role: RL Developer, Presenter)

MINOR ACHIEVEMENT

Proof of Concept: Detecting line-breaks in football matches

TUM MDSI, Munich/Germany

01/2024

2nd Place at Dräger hackathon

Dräger, Lübeck/Germany

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/Germany

08/2023

Built an NFT similarity judging tool (Role: Team Lead).

1st Place at MSG Code & Create Hackathon

MSG, Karlsruhe/Germany

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, Istanbul/Turkey

06/2022

Cat identification using noseprints and siamese networks.

First student ever to graduate from TGU with Perfect GPA

Turkish-German University, Istanbul/Turkey

06/2022

I was the first student ever to graduate from any faculty of the Turkish-German University with a perfect GPA.