Winner with distinction 'Open Source' in Music & AI Hackathon in Osaka, Japan. Participation in World Expo as VIP of Austria

Gyokuzoin Temple, Osaka/Japan

06/2025

Summary

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

MINOR

Unternehmertum Garching, Munich/Germany

02/2025

Summary

We built a solution to help detect and counter shaheed drones through a cheaper radar system during the biggest defense tech hackathon thus far.

Winner of Balderton Capital Challenge at {Tech: Berlin} AI Hackathon

MINOR

CODE Berlin, Berlin/Germany

01/2025

Summary

The won the balderton capital sponsored track, which was about making personal finance and investing more accessible to regular people.

Outstanding Award Winner at Huawei AI Individual Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) Competition

Huawei Research Center, Munich/Germany

12/2024 - 01/2025

Summary

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/Germany

12/2024

Summary

(Grade: 1.0) (Accepted at ESANN 2025)

Finalist at LauzHack 2024: VR Classroom for Focus Improvement

MINOR

EPFL, Laussane/Switzerland

11/2024

Summary

We developed 'MX Focus,' a VR classroom environment designed to help students enhance their concentration during exams. Utilizing a Logitech MX Ink VR pen and a Muse 2 EEG headband, the system detects stress or lack of focus, introducing noise to the student's handwriting in real-time. This innovative approach trains students to maintain focus and composure under exam conditions.

1st Place at the biggest Tourism Technology Festival in Europe

Alles Für den GAST, Salzburg/Austria

11/2024

Summary

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

Summary

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

Summary

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

Summary

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

MINOR

Makerspace, Munich/Germany

10/2024

Summary

We built a complete prototype for circular value creation out of old home appliances using AI/RL.

1st Place at Thüga Solutions Hackathon

Thüga Solutions, Munich/Germany

09/2024

Summary

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

MINOR

TUM Blockchain Conference, Munich/Germany

09/2024

Summary

Designed a solana microbetting solution.

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

SIX Swiss Exchange, Zurich/Switzerland

06/2024

Summary

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

Summary

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

Summary

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

Proof of Concept: Detecting line-breaks in football matches

MINOR

TUM MDSI, Munich/Germany

01/2024

Summary

3D Visualization of football players as spheres during a live match, clustering them into lines and detecting line breaks, predictive analysis, providing an intuitive UI for configuration (Role: FullStack Developer).

2nd Place at Dräger hackathon

Dräger, Lübeck/Germany

10/2023

Summary

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

Summary

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

1st Place at MSG Code & Create Hackathon

MSG, Karlsruhe/Germany

06/2023

Summary

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/Turkey

06/2022

Summary

Cat identification using noseprints and siamese networks.

First student ever to graduate from TGU with Perfect GPA

Turkish-German University, Beykoz/Turkey

06/2022

Summary

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