| Nov 2025 | Currently on leave from my role as Co-founder & CTO at Kanzy Financial Technologies to focus on exploring foundational AI research opportunities. |
| Oct 2025 | Our paper “An Adaptive Emotion-Aware Strategy for Human-Agent Negotiation: Insights from Real-World Human-Robot Experiments” was presented at the 25th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA). |
| Jul 2025 | Our paper “Evaluating Modern RAG: Textual, Multimodal, Dense, and Late Interaction Pipelines” was presented at the Workshop on Information Retrieval’s Role in RAG Systems at the 48th ACM SIGIR Conference. |
| May 2025 | Kanzy Financial Technologies was accepted into the NVIDIA Inception and the Google for Startups AI programs, recognizing our work in applying AI to financial services. |
| May 2025 | Honored to be selected to attend the prestigious Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) as a Young Researcher, connecting with laureates in Mathematics and Computer Science. |
| Apr 2025 | Honored to be selected to attend the prestigious Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) as a Young Researcher, connecting with laureates in Mathematics and Computer Science. |
| Jan 2025 | Our paper “Taking into Account Opponent’s Arguments in Human-Agent Negotiations” was published in ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS). |
| Aug 2024 | Presented our two papers, “NegoLog: An Integrated Python-based Automated Negotiation Framework with Enhanced Assessment Components” and “NEGOTIATOR: A Comprehensive Framework for Human-Agent Negotiation Integrating Preferences, Interaction, and Emotion”, at the 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) in Jeju Island, South Korea. |
| Mar 2024 | Co-founded Kanzy Financial Technologies in London, taking on the role of Chief Technology Officer (CTO). |
| Mar 2024 | Our paper “Decentralized Multi-Agent Path Finding Framework and Strategies Based on Automated Negotiation” was published in Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (JAAMAS). |
| Mar 2024 | Presented our paper “You Look Nice, but I Am Here to Negotiate: The Influence of Robot Appearance on Negotiation Dynamics” at the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). |
| Nov 2023 | Our paper "Conflict Based Negotiation Strategy for Human-Agent Negotiation" has been published in Springer's Applied Intelligence Journal |
| Oct 2023 | I received my MSc. degree in Artificial Intelligence with summa cum laude at Ozyegin University. My thesis, "A Comprehensive Human-Agent Negotiation Framework: Preferences, Emotion & Interaction" will be published! |
| Oct 2023 | You can access our pre-print journal paper "Decentralized Multi-Agent Path Finding Framework and Strategies Based on Automated Negotiation" in the Research Square. |
| Sep 2023 | Our paper "Effects of Agent's Embodiment in Human-Agent Negotiations” has been accepted to the 23rd ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents - IVA’23. |
| Jun 2023 | I attended AAMAS 2023 as the organizer of the 14th Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC). |
| Feb 2023 | I have been selected as the Secretary and Board Member of the IEEE Computer Science Society Turkey Chapter for the terms 2023-2025. |
| Jan 2023 | I have been selected as the organizer of the 14th Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC) at AAMAS 2023. |
| Aug 2022 | Our paper “Time Series Predictive Models for Opponent Behavior Modeling in Bilateral Negotiations” has been accepted to PRIMA 2022. |
| Jul 2022 | I attended IJCAI 2022 as a volunteer team member in Vienna, Austria. |
| Jun 2022 | We organized the 7th Turkish Science Academy Machine Learning Summer School. |
| Jun 2022 | I received the Outstanding Research Assistant Award at Ozyegin University for 2021-2022. |
| Jun 2022 | I am honored to receive the prestigious IEEE Computer Society Richard E. Merwin Student Scholarship. |
| Mar 2022 | I have been accepted as a Research Intern in the Interactive Intelligence Group at TU Delft, starting in July 2022. |
| Feb 2022 | Our paper “Would You Imagine Yourself Negotiating With a Robot, Jennifer? Why Not?” has been published in IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems. |
| Aug 2021 | I attended the 9th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2021) as a volunteer team member. |
| Aug 2021 | We won 2nd place in both the Standard and Collusion tracks of the Supply-Chain Management League (SCML) 2021 with the collaboration of Brown University’s E-GLAMOR Group. |
| Jun 2021 | We received the Second Best Paper Award for our paper “A Decentralized Token-Based Negotiation Approach for Multi-Agent Path Finding” at EUMAS 2021. |
| May 2021 | I attended AAMAS 2021 to present our paper titled “Solver agent: towards emotional and opponent-aware agent for human-robot negotiation” and worked as a volunteer team member. |
| May 2021 | I have been accepted as a Research Intern in Brown University’s E-GLAMOR Group, starting in June 2021. |
| May 2021 | I will be joining the Affective Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory at the University of Cambridge as a Research Intern, starting in January 2022. |
| Jan 2021 | Our project ranked 1st at IBM Watson’s & RPI’s Human Multi-Agent Immersive Negotiation Challenge at IJCAI 2020. |
| Jan 2020 | I am starting my M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence at Ozyegin University this semester with a Graduate Fellowship. |
| Jan 2020 | I received a Research Scholarship from The Scientific and Research Council of Turkey - Grant number: 118E197. |
