Merhaba, I am Nihal from Turkey.
I am a researcher; computer engineer with master's degree from Boğaziçi University & BS degree from Middle East Technical University, North Cyprus Campus with full education scholarship due to my national university entrance exam result in Turkey. I am experienced in the research related to AI domains; particularly in natural language processing, data science and machine learning as well as human computer interaction in Turkey, Germany, Italy, Austria and France. Moreover, I obtained my another diploma in psychology & counselling from International Career Institute, UK based on my own interest.
EDUCATION
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HIGHER EDUCATION
2009 - 2013 Middle East Technical University, TRNC
BSc. Computer Engineering
Senior Project: TmT-A mobile app to teach Turkish sign language to hearing impaired people.
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2013 - 2014 Erasmus Mundus Mathmods: Mathematical Modelling in Engineering
University of L'Aquila, Italy
MSc. Mathematical Engineering (studied one term)
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2014 - 2016 Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey
MSc. Computer Engineering
Thesis: A rule-based Approach for Converting Wikipedia Content into Semantic Relations
Project 1: Question Answering System Creation for a closed domain, funded by Tübitak, Turkey.
Project 2: Erasmus+ Colibri, funded by EU (on future internet, network security, business process modeling, molecular communications, WAN)
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2019 International Career Institute, UK
Dipl. Psychology & Counselling
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SECONDARY EDUCATION
2004 - 2009 Kadıköy Anatolian High School, Istanbul, Turkey
Branch: Math & Sciecnes
Entered this special public high school with the ranking around 5000's in the national high school entry exam in Turkey. Math & science classes were conducted in English language; moreover, I took courses of British and American literature, as well as German as a second foreign language.
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EXPERIENCE
RESEARCH EMPLOYMENTS
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Tübitak Ulakbim, Ankara, Turkey (2012/summer, research intern) - Open Conference Systems
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Boğaziçi University, Istanbul,Turkey (2014-2015, research assistant) - NLP
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Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy (2015 , summer intern) - NLP
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University of Padova, Italy (2017, Marie Curie Fellow & research assistant) - maths & NLP
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University of Bremen, Germany (2018, research assistant) - NLP
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University of Caen-GREYC-CNRS, France (2018-2019, research engineer) - NLP & HCI
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University of Vienna, Austria (2020, research assistant) - business informatics
TEACHING EMPLOYMENTS
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Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey (2016,teaching assistant) - Java language
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Middle East Technical University,TRNC (2011-2012, student teaching assistant) - C language
PRIVATE SECTOR EMPLOYMENTS
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Özdilek Holding, Bursa, Turkey (2020-2021, software expert & business analyst)-PostgreSQL,Azure Devops
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Some companies in Istanbul, Turkey (2021- cont., software developer)-Amazon DynamoDB,.NET Core,Python, Java, MS SQL
PUBLICATIONS
1- Derici C. , Aydın Y. Yenialaca Ç., Aydın N.Y. , Güngör T., Kartal G., Özgür A. (2018) “A Closed-Domain Question Answering System to Assist Students”, Natural Language Engineering, Cambridge University Press. pp. 1-38.
2- Aydın N.Y.(2016) “A method for the Transformation of Natural Language into Formal Language” (Turkish version had been accepted to Akademik Bilişim Conference in Aydın, Turkey, (3-5 February, 2016)) http://ab.org.tr/ab16/kabul.html - 368
3- Aydın N.Y.(2016), “Investigations on speech recognition on mobile environment” (Turkish version had been accepted to the national conference of Akademik Bilişim, Aydın, Turkey (3-5 February, 2016)) http://ab.org.tr/ab16/kabul.html - 369
4- Aydın N.Y., Güngör T. (2018), "A Rule-Based Approach for Converting Wikipedia Content into Semantic Relations," Journal of Computers vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 139-145, 2018.
http://www.jcomputers.us/vol13/jcp1302-01.pdf
(2016) - International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICOAI), Limerick, Ireland.
SKILLS
Java, C, C#, C++, Matlab, R, Python, SQL, PL/SQL,VHDL, Haskell, Scheme, Prolog, JavaScript,PHP, JSP, node.js
MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MS SQL, Amazon DynamoDB
Android, Web Development, NLP, text mining, machine learning, artifical intelligence
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English (Advanced)
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German(Intermediate)
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Italian(Beginner)
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Romanian(Elementary)
EXPERTISE/ RESEARCH INTERESTS
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Natural Language Processing
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Artificial Intelligence
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Data Science-Analysis
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Machine Learning
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Human Computer Interaction(web dev, android dev, UI/UX design)
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User requirement analysis
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Software architecture