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b.s. data science, ai/ml track · minor in computer science

halicioglu data science institute. coursework across data structures, linear algebra, probability, and multivariable calculus.

qualcomm institute · la jolla, ca

• migrated llm and text to speech workloads to kubernetes for gpu backed inference, with websocket streaming into unreal engine.
• built a backend pipeline on couchdb and ollama to generate and serve ai dialogue for finetuning.
• wrote c++ integrations for unreal engine covering real time api calls and bulk dialogue ingestion, with automated compliance checks as a data quality gate.

halıcıoğlu data science institute, uc san diego

• optimized bigquery sql with polars based parallel processing, cutting etl runtime by 7x across 700m+ rows.
• analyzed wearable data from 54k+ participants using pca, umap, and clustering.
• worked in an agile research team on technical review, troubleshooting, and experiment design.

adobe · uc san diego campus

• led hands on workshops on generative ai, automation, and creative tooling.
• built and demoed ai workflows with firefly, acrobat, and creative cloud, translating product capability into working demos for students.

handshake ai — openai · remote

• built validation workflows for model generated python and java, including compilation checks for codex.
• reviewed 120+ instances of hallucinated apis, logic errors, and incorrect code to feed model correction and training.

army devcom · jshs and nasa

• presented research findings at a national conference as a devcom student researcher.

• reverse engineered a compressed binary protocol to decode real time global lightning data.
• built ingestion with auto reconnect, a spatially indexed postgresql store, and a rest api with 6+ query endpoints.

• autonomous agent files internship applications end to end, from account creation to submission.
• dedicated handlers for greenhouse, workday, oracle, and ashby.