Experience

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  Blossom's cakes & pastries

  Jul 2014 - Oct 2016

  Operations manager

  ⇨ Drove up Blossom’s Cakes customer satisfaction metrics by 80% through dedicated follow-up.⇨ Spearheaded product variety expansion by introducing three flagship product categories to cater to a wider market segment.⇨ Streamlined Blossom’s value proposition by optimizing strengths and outsourcing weaknesses.⇨ Created a fluid workflow between front– and back-end operations that led to a 50% increase in productivity.⇨ Prioritized marketing thereby increasing Blossom’s Cakes presence in Asaba to include 10 new shopping centres. Show less

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  Amerikan kültür dil okulları

  Jun 2017 - Dec 2019

  Spoken english tutor

  ⇨ Initiated a system of interactive sessions that produced more confident and articulate students.⇨ Formulated a methodology to work with students with different learning abilities.⇨ Guided numerous students from all walks of life to improve their spoken English.⇨ Prepared adaptive syllabi for different levels of spoken English classes.

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  Cukurova university

  Sept 2017 - Jun 2021

  Undergraduate student
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  Youtube

  Jan 2019 - Oct 2019

  Content creator - mengs edutainment

  ⇨ On the frontend, I was the head tutor and face of MEngS Edutainment, while on the backend, I was the video production team leader.

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  Adana büyükşehir belediyesi

  Jul 2020 - Aug 2020

  Summer intern (engineering and foreign relations)

  ⇨ Leveraged the 20% (personal project) rule to develop the wing of a model aircraft using CATIA V5. ⇨ As a charter member of the municipality's climate action reporting team, I led the digital centralization of collated and reported environmental data of Adana province using a global environmental disclosure system in liaison with the CDP and ICLEI.⇨ Performed process inspection at municipality-affiliated companies like ABB Wastewater Treatment Plant, Adana Bread Factory, ITC Invest Trading & Consulting AG, and ABB – Transport Department and Metro Depot.⇨ Served as a municipality representative and translator for GIZ meetings and projects like PEP, CLIP, PPD and QUDRA II. Show less

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  Sabanci university

  Sept 2021 - Aug 2022

  Graduate teaching assistant

  GTA providing teaching, grading, and proctoring support to faculty members⇨ MATH202 - Differential Equations (Spring 2022). Workload: 153 students, 2 midterm exams, and 1 final exam.⇨ MATH203 - Introduction to Probability (Fall 2021). Workload: 507 students, 2 assignments, 1 midterm exam, and 1 final exam.

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  Erasmus mundus joint master degrees programme

  Sept 2022 - Sept 2024

  Erasmus mundus scholar
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  Vicorob

  Jun 2023 - Sept 2023

  Deep learning and neuromorphic vision intern

  ⇨ Explored deep learning architectures such as SNNs, Recurrent Vision Transformers, and Asynchronous CNNs, that leverage the asynchronous nature of event data from event-based vision sensors for object detection. ⇨ Curated underwater object detection and optical flow datasets with an ROV fitted with a DAVIS camera at the Institute for Underwater Robotics research lab at the University of Girona.⇨ Developed a modular event data preprocessing and visualization pipeline in Python.⇨ Experimentally tested and validated optimization-based techniques for annotating underwater object detection datasets. Show less

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  Delft university of technology

  Nov 2024 - now

  Doctoral researcher

  Safe Planning and Control for Autonomous Robots