Team

Asst. Prof. Gözde Gül Şahin

Head of GGLab

I’m an Asst. Prof. at Computer Science Department, Koç University from February 2022.

Tamta Kapanadze

I earned my Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and am a first-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at Koç University.

Abdulfattah Rashid Safa

I am a Ph.D. candidate at GGLab, specializing in task-oriented dialogue systems.

Gürkan Soykan

I am a first-year Ph.D. researcher at GGLab interested in dialogue systems.

Berfin Duman

I earned my Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Istanbul Technical University and am a research intern at GGLab.

Ali Gebeşçe

I earned my Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Koç University and am a first-year M.Sc. student in Computer Science and Engineering at Koç University.

Zeynel Uluşan

I am a Masters student at GGLab working (and still learning) on hybrid models.

Hulki Çıray

I hold a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Istanbul Technical University and am a Masters student at GGLab.

Hüseyin Emir Akdağ

I’m doing Translation Studies and Linguistics double major at Boğaziçi University. I worked as a research assistant at TÜBİTAK and the Boğaziçi Computational Social Science Lab. Currently interning at GGLab. My research focuses on machine translation, multilingual NLP, and evaluation.

Ege Uğur Amasya

I am an undergraduate student at Koç University, pursuing a double major in Physics and Computer Engineering.

Kaya Meriç Engin

I earned my Bachelor’s Degree in Germanistik from Istanbul University, currently working as a Software Developer at Mars Athletic Club and as a research intern at GGLab.

Ata Halıcıoğlu

I am a Senior Electrical and Electronics Engineering double majoring with Computer Engineering in Koc University.

Kuzey Kantarcıoğlu

Previously: Worked on Procedural Language Generation and Computer Vision in various internships and projects. I’ve competed in the International Linguistics Olympiad and International Olympiad in AI.
Currently: Undergraduate student at Stanford University studying computer science and linguistics and research intern at GGLab.

Andrew Yong-Xern Bond

Previously: Worked on Turkish Grammatical Error Correction and Detection together with Atakan and Farrin.
Currently: PhD Student at Koç University.

Tilek Chubakov

Previously: Worked on computational morphology and Human-AI interaction.
Currently: Recently was a PhD Student at UKP Lab, TU Darmstadt. Now work as an independent researcher.

Mina Durhasan

I am an undergrad researcher at GGLab majoring in CS at Koç University.

Atakan Kara

Previously: Worked on Turkish Grammatical Error Correction and Detection together with Andrew and Farrin.
Currently: AI Research Engineer at Codeway Studios.

Müge Kural

I work on reasoning in LLMs. My research interests include social reasoning in AI, human-AI interaction, and explainable AI.

Farrin Marouf Sofian

Previously: Worked on Turkish Grammatical Error Correction and Detection together with Atakan and Andrew.
Currently: M.S. in Computer Science at UC Irvine.

Arda Uzunoğlu

Previously: Worked on Procedural Language Understanding Benchmark.
Currently: Undergraduate CS student at Johns Hopkins University and undergraduate researcher at JHU Center for Language and Speech Processing.

Subha Vadlamannati

Previously: Worked on text simplification as a Fatima Fellow.
Currently: Student at Mercer Island High School.