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Gönül Aycı

Mathematician & Computer Engineer

Istanbul, Turkey

Address: Computer Engineering dept., Artificial Intelligence Lab. (BM 36) - North Campus, Bogazici University

Languages

Programming

Python

C, C++, Java, Matlab


Spoken

Turkish

English

German


Skills

Git

70%

LaTeX

80%

Django

65%

MongoDB

80%

MySQL

70%

HTML

95%

Weka

80%

PHP

50%


Education

PhD Candidate / Computer Engineering - Bogazici University
Sep. 2016 - Current
Thesis Topic: Handling Uncertainty and Risk in Privacy Prediction
MSc / Computer Science - Ozyegin University (Full Scholarship)
Sep. 2013 - Jan. 2016
Thesis Topic: Fusion of Subjective Opinions through Behavior Estimation
BSc / Mathematics - Marmara University
Sep. 2008 - Jun. 2013

Experience

Senior Project Specialist / Computer Engineering - Bogazici University
Jun. 2018 - Current

TAM Project

Teaching Assistant / Bogazici & Ozyegin Universities
Sep. 2019 - Jan. 2020 @Bogazici University
  • CmpE 220: Discrete and Computational Structures
Sep. 2013 - Jan. 2016 @Ozyegin University
  • CS 100: Introduction to Programming (Matlab)
  • CS 101: Introduction to Programming (Java)
  • CS 102: Object-Oriented Programming (Java)
  • MATH 112: Discrete Mathematics
  • PHYS 101: Physics
Data Scientist / EU Project
Jun. 2017 - Feb. 2019

OpenMaker project. Part of the data InSight team that creates community analytics and personalized recommendations.

Backend Intern / Hipo
Summer 2017

I worked on implementing tests and backend functionality at Hipo. As backend team, we routinely met with colleagues abroad on Skype and have weekly technical presentations for continuous learning.



Publications

  • Ayci G., et al. "Active Learning with Bayesian Nonnegative Matrix Factorization for Recommender Systems." 2019 27th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU). IEEE, 2019.
    Keywords: Nonnegative Matrix Factorization, Gibbs Sampler, Variational Bayes, Active Learning, Recommendation Systems.
    URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8806327

  • Suyunu B., Ayci G., and Cemgil A. T., "Active selection of elements for Bayesian nonnegative matrix factorization," 2018 26th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), Izmir, Turkey, 2018, pp. 1-4.
    Keywords: Nonnegative Matrix Factorization, Gibbs Sampler, Active Learning, Recommendation Systems, Bayesian Inference via Monte Carlo.
    URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8404396&isnumber=8404147

  • Suyunu, B. et al. "Semi-Supervised Psychometric Scoring of Document Collections." 2018 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW). IEEE, 2018.
    Keywords: Nonnegative matrix factorization, Semi-supervised learning, Schwartz theory of basic human values, Big five personality traits, Psychometric profiling, Personality recognition.
    URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8637398

  • Sensoy, M., et al. "FUSE-BEE: Fusion of subjective opinions through behavior estimation." 2015 18th International Conference on Information Fusion (Fusion). IEEE, 2015.
    Keywords: Information Fusion, Subjective Logic, Dirichlet Distributions, Behavior Estimation.
    URL:     https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7266610

Conferences

Speaker / PyCon DE & PyData Berlin
9-13th Oct. 2019
Poster Presenter / PyCon UK
13-17th Sep. 2019

Speaker / Python Hour
  • 16th Jul. 2019
    Talk Topic: E-mail Classification using Machine Learning and Python.
  • 2nd Apr. 2019
    Talk Topic: Let Machine Learning Be Your Guide.
  • 28th Nov. 2017
    w/ Burak Suyunu
    Talk Topic: Collecting, Analyzing and Visualizing Twitter data using Python.
Speaker / Özgür Yazılım & Linux Günleri
11-12th May 2019
Attendee / DjangoCon Europe
10-14th Apr. 2019
Speaker / SIU
2-5th May 2018
Speaker / Kodla
21-23th Apr. 2018
Attendee / EASSS
7-11th Aug. 2017
Speaker / Data Science Istanbul
2nd Jun. 2017
Volunteer student & Attendee / AAMAS
4-8th May 2015

Voluntary

Co-organizer / PyCon Turkey 2020
May 2019 - Current
Volunteer student / Machine Learning İsmail Arı Summer School in Bosphorus
July 2017 & July 2018
Member / inzva
Jun. 2017 - Current

Co-organizer & Mentor / Django Girls
Feb. 2017 - Current
Member / PyIstanbul
Sep. 2016 - Current
Volunteer student / AAMAS conference in 2015
May 2015

Interests

Research: Privacy in Online Social Networks · Uncertainty · Machine Learning · Deep Learning · Bayesian Statistics.

Other: Running · Trekking · Biking · Traveling · Oil Painting · Board Game.