Talks, work and places

A one-hour AI Connect Istanbul session on production memory systems, retrieval and temporal reasoning.

Online

Invited speaker at the inaugural GDG on Campus Trakya University DevFest.

Edirne, Turkey

Presented the sections I contributed to Türkiye Bilişim Derneği's national AI standards report.

KamuBIB and BIMY, Ankara

Invited speaker at the GDG Gaziantep technology festival, attended by more than 500 registered participants.

Gaziantep, Turkey

A session on LLMs, agent systems and current developments at the Marmara IT Summit.

Marmara University, Istanbul

A recorded conversation with the Hacettepe AI Club about working in AI and generative systems.

Online

A DevTalks conversation at the intersection of data science, AI and digital art.

GDG Kocaeli

A Kodluyoruz interview on the relationship between data science, AI and art.

YouTube

A DevFest Kocaeli talk on building and using semantic image search systems.

Kocaeli, Turkey

The first Teknasyon Tech Meetup of 2024, covering the systems behind generative AI art.

Teknasyon, Istanbul

Invited talk at the 40th National Informatics Congress.

Türkiye Bilişim Derneği, Ankara

A technical session at the ARTLAB Artificial Intelligence Summit.

Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul

A machine-learning session at IEEE CSCON 2022.

Ankara, Turkey

A hands-on data science and machine-learning session for the Bogazici University community.

Bogazici University

A Global AI On Tour session on learning paths, resources and working in data science.

Global AI Community

A practical training session for Hacettepe AI Club's Campus 4.0 programme.

Hacettepe AI Club

A live session with the IEEE Turkey Section Computer Society.

Online

Credited Refik Anadol Studio team member for the large-scale installation at Google's Charleston East campus.

Mountain View, California

Credited studio team member for the AI-driven work created with Lionel Messi and shown at Christie's.

Christie's, New York

Credited studio team member for the installation at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition.

La Biennale di Venezia

Credited studio team member for the audiovisual AI Data Sculpture inaugurating Guggenheim Bilbao's in situ series.

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Credited studio team member for the Bulgari-commissioned installation.

Shanghai, China

Credited studio team member for the permanent AI Data Sculpture at Akbank headquarters.

Sabanci Center, Istanbul

Credited studio team member for the Turkish Airlines collaboration combining travel, biosensing and AI Data Paintings.

Art Basel, Switzerland

Credited studio team member for the 50-million-pixel installation presented at NVIDIA GTC.

San Jose, California

Credited studio team member for Refik Anadol's first major institutional solo exhibition in the UK.

Serpentine North, London

Credited studio team member for Refik Anadol's AI installation in MoMA's Gund Lobby.

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Vietnamese technology coverage of the four-year-old television restored with a constrained Claude Code workflow.

Vietnam

A detailed Chinese feature on the project, its supervised automation loop and the public guide.

China

French coverage examining the cleanup workflow, reversibility and the risks of unguided automation.

France

Japanese coverage presenting the project as an example of agentic coding moving beyond web applications.

Japan

Chilean coverage of the no-root cleanup and the public, reversible four-step guide.

Chile

International coverage of the viral X thread and the public tv.cobanov.dev guide.

United States

Spanish coverage of the agent-led ADB cleanup and its no-root safeguards.

Spain

French coverage including an independent user who followed the guide and reported a much faster TCL television.

France

French technology coverage discussing the prompt, its restrictions and the need for careful use.

France

French coverage of the reusable prompt and reversible Android TV cleanup process.

France

A case study focused on the prompt's constraints, reversibility and transferable agent-safety patterns.

United States

The original X post passed 2.5 million views and led to the public guide and international coverage.

X

Listed by the studio as its Lead Data/AI Researcher.

Los Angeles

Contributing author and cover designer for Türkiye Bilişim Derneği's national report.

Türkiye Bilişim Derneği

Credited Refik Anadol Studio team member in Futura Seoul's printed exhibition catalogue.

Futura Seoul, South Korea

An extended interview on NFT systems, security and environmental costs was published in a Marmara University thesis.

Marmara University

Wrote Bilişim Magazine issue 196's feature on generative art and created its AI-generated cover image.

Bilişim Magazine

Published a practical guide to portable deep-learning inference and ONNX Runtime.

Medium

Published a technical introduction progressing from transformer fundamentals to vision architectures.

Medium

Interviewed on language models, reinforcement learning and the emerging uses of conversational AI.

Milliyet

Appeared on Habertürk TV to discuss deepfakes and synthetic media.

Habertürk TV

Moderated the opening webinar for the MEB, TOBB, TOBB ETU and Global AI Hub programme for high-school teachers.

Online

Published a practical learning roadmap for machine learning and data science.

Deep Learning Türkiye

Explained a neural network from first principles with a hand-calculated logic-gate example.

Deep Learning Türkiye

Published a practical guide to image classification with pretrained Keras models.

Deep Learning Türkiye