Education & Qualifications
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK 2012-2015
PhD in Computer Science
Title of Thesis: Machine Learning for Improving Heuristic Optimization
Research Topics: Data Science, Machine Learning, Operational Research
Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey 2010- 2012
Master of Science Degree in Computer Engineering, Feb 2012
Research Topics: Machine Learning, Data Science, Robotics, Image & Video Processing
University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran 1998-2003
Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Engineering, Feb 2003
Graduation Project Title: Fuzzy Expert System
Career Experience
Capital One Europe (current position)
Aug 2015-Present
Data Scientist:
• Design and implementation of machine learning algorithms for big data analysis:
◦ acquisition risk modelling (deep learning)
◦ fraud detection (statistical analysis)
◦ direct mail targeting (deep learning)
• Bringing fresh ideas to the company and presenting most recent advances in machine learning to a diverse audience of managers, business analysts and data scientists.
• Improving the performance of available models using optimization techniques such as Genetic Algorithms
Notice: my work in Capital One is almost always hands-on. I also have passed my probation period which was cut short due to high performance.
Turkish Telecom (in collaboration with Koc University)
2012
Computer Scientist: Design and implementation of a system, capable of synthesizing animated gestures using audio/video records of human actors. The final implementation was in C++ and relied on Hidden semi-Markov Models for learning.
Divit Argenit, Turkey (http://www.argenit.com.tr/ )
2011-2012
Computer Scientist: Developing machine learning techniques for classification of human g-banded chromosomes in karyotype images. (Multivariate Classification/C++)
Nexus, Turkey
2010
Data Science: Duplicate detection/Fraud discovery in GSM registration data.(Expectation Maximization/C++)
AIR Laboratory, Istanbul Technical University (http://air.cs.itu.edu.tr/beestanbul)
2009-2011
Computer Scientist/Robotics: Designing machine learning and optimization algorithms for self-learning, soccer playing humanoid robots for the RoboCup competitions.
Other Experiences (prior to post graduate studies)
2001-2009
Involves software development (C++, Java and VB.NET), Siemens PLC engineering and industrial automation.
Skills
4+ years of experience in Machine Learning, Statistical Analysis, Optimization/Evolutionary Algorithms. Almost 2 years of experience in Big Data techniques/interfaces (Hadoop, HDFS, Map-Reduce, Spark, Hive). 8+ years of experience in Matlab, R, C/C++, Java, Python and SQL.
Awards
First in MISTA Challenge on “Multi-mode resource-constrained multi-project scheduling” 2013
University of Nottingham: Vice Chancellor’s Scholarship for International Research Excellence 2012
Istanbul Technical University: 1st in the MSc in CE student’s cohort of 2012 2012
University Entry Exam (Iran): a nation-wide rank of 840 (among approximately 1,500,000 students). 1998
The exam is held annually in Iran and is considered to be one of the toughest in the world.
