San Francisco Bay Area
I lead ML and data science for Latitude AI's Virtual Testing organization, where my team builds simulation and performance-prediction systems that gate autonomous vehicle software releases for Latitude AI. I've spent 12+ years building and shipping production AI/ML systems — reinforcement learning for industrial automation at Microsoft, supply chain forecasting at Amazon, and production planning optimization at AMD. I wrote Mastering Reinforcement Learning with Python (Packt, 2020), and I've taught statistics and ML as adjunct faculty at UT Austin's McCombs School of Business and Texas State. Ph.D. in Systems Engineering, Boston University.
Leading a dynamic team responsible for developing and maintaining software pipelines, analytics dashboards, and advanced models in machine learning for simulation AI, statistics, and optimization.
Working on Simulation AI and related ML problems for self-driving technology.
I frequently give talks on Artificial Intelligence, in particular on Reinforcement Learning and AI-powered business decision-making, in English and Turkish. PAST ENGAGEMENTS Event Keynotes & Talks: - University of Calgary, DISC Consortium Workshop - TR AI Week 2022 - INFORMS, Workshop on Data Mining and Decision Analytics 2021 - Technology Development Foundation of Türkiye, Ideaport - Reinforcement Learning Zurich, Pie & AI - Multiple technical presentations at various academic conferences Corporate Talks: - KocDigital, Braintalks - Air Canada - Magnimind Academy Guest Lectures: - University of New Hampshire, Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics - Tulane University, Freeman School of Business - Bilkent University, Faculty of Engineering - Washington University in St. Louis, Olin Business School - Montclair State University, Feliciano School of Business - DePaul University, The DePaul Center for Data Science - Creighton University, Heider College of Business - Union College, Computer Science Department - Austin Community College - Texas State University, Ingram School of Engineering Podcasts: - Technology Development Foundation of Türkiye, AI Podcast - TRAI Podcast - DecisionForest Podcast Interviews: - CNN Turk, 5N1K with Cüneyt Özdemir
Building machine learning tools and models for Argo AI's self-driving system.
Serving on the Advisory Council for “Engineering Leadership for Executives Professional Program” at California State University, Chico. https://rce.csuchico.edu/engineering-leadership
Developing the AI/ML capabilities of Project Bonsai as part of the core AI team within Microsoft's Autonomous Systems organization. Recently focusing on model-based reinforcement learning.
Research and implementation of the state-of-the-art distributed reinforcement learning algorithms and related AI/ML features for Microsoft's Bonsai platform on Azure Cloud as part of the Autonomous Systems group.
Worked with industry-leader customers to create real-world autonomous systems using reinforcement learning on Microsoft's Bonsai platform.