Merhaba, I am Nihal from Turkey.
I am a researcher; computer engineer with master's degree from BoÄŸaziçi 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 have research and software development experiences in 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. Therefore, my future research may include the intersection between computer science and psychology.​
EDUCATION
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HIGHER EDUCATION
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2009 - 2013 Middle East Technical University, TRNC
BSc. Computer Engineering
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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 BoÄŸaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey
MSc. Computer Engineering
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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
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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
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RESEARCH EMPLOYMENTS
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Tübitak Ulakbim, Ankara, Turkey (2012/summer, research intern) - Open Conference Systems
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BoÄŸaziçi 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
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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
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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 BiliÅŸim 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 BiliÅŸim, 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