Uğurcan Şaşmaz

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Istanbul, Türkiye

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Experience

  • International Relations Department Student Council Representative at Koç University Student Council
    Nov 2024 - Jun 2025 · 8 mos

    - Ensuring the communication between deparment's students and academic staff - Conveying the demands, wishes, and complaints of students to the academics in the International Relations department

  • Intern at Istanbul Policy Center | Istanbul Politikalar Merkezi
    Sep 2024 - Nov 2024 · 3 mos

    - Administrations of institutions’ events and writing reports on them - Assisted the professors' research by writing literature review, finding sources for their projects - Conducted research reports on political and social events - Prepared international and national daily press

  • Research Assistant at Politus Analytics
    Jan 2023 - Feb 2023 · 2 mos

    - Politus Analytics is an institution that aims to measure the attitudes and behaviors of public sphere by using AI methods - Worked as a research assistant tasked to analyze the prevalent emotions in the Turkish Twitter - Annotated data from Turkish twitter to measure which emotions are more prevalent in social media.

  • Data Annotator at MA-CSSL
    Sep 2022 - Jan 2023 · 5 mos

    - MA-CSSL is an interdisciplinary research lab founded to conduct social science research with computational science method - Worked as a research assistant for the research project of Professor Merih Angın entitled '“IMF Decides, Machine Learns: An AI Approach to IOs,” funded by TÜBİTAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye). - Annotated and analyzed the reports of the IMF to assess the policies on lending.

  • Intern at European Studies Center
    Aug 2022 - Sep 2022 · 2 mos

    - Assisted the project "Digital Inequality and Exclusion Between University Students" conducted by Assistant Professor Burçak Müge Vural - Translation of the web site of the institution - Worked on the past European Erasmus+ programs regarding the subject of the project - As a pre-study of the project, prepared the EU Parliament election statistics and examined the concept of democracy within the scope of EU countries