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Our paper “RetrievalRouter: Joint Modality and Architecture Selection for Document Retrieval” was accepted to the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2026).
Currently on leave from my role as Co-founder & CTO at Kanzy Financial Technologies to focus on exploring foundational AI research opportunities.
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).
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.
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.
Honored to be selected to attend the prestigious Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) as a Young Researcher, connecting with laureates in Mathematics and Computer Science.
Our paper “Taking into Account Opponent’s Arguments in Human-Agent Negotiations” was published in ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS).
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.
Co-founded Kanzy Financial Technologies in London, taking on the role of Chief Technology Officer (CTO).
Our paper “Decentralized Multi-Agent Path Finding Framework and Strategies Based on Automated Negotiation” was published in Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (JAAMAS).
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).
Our paper “Conflict-Based Negotiation Strategy for Human-Agent Negotiation” has been published in Springer’s Applied Intelligence.
I received my M.Sc. 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!
You can access our preprint journal paper “Decentralized Multi-Agent Path Finding Framework and Strategies Based on Automated Negotiation” on Research Square.
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.
I attended AAMAS 2023 as the organizer of the 14th Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC).
I have been selected as the Secretary and Board Member of the IEEE Computer Science Society Turkey Chapter for the terms 2023-2025.
I have been selected as the organizer of the 14th Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC) at AAMAS 2023.
Our paper “Time Series Predictive Models for Opponent Behavior Modeling in Bilateral Negotiations” has been accepted to PRIMA 2022.
I attended IJCAI 2022 as a volunteer team member in Vienna, Austria.
We organized the 7th Turkish Science Academy Machine Learning Summer School.
I received the Outstanding Research Assistant Award at Ozyegin University for 2021-2022.
I am honored to receive the prestigious IEEE Computer Society Richard E. Merwin Student Scholarship.
I have been accepted as a Research Intern in the Interactive Intelligence Group at TU Delft, starting in July 2022.
Our paper “Would You Imagine Yourself Negotiating With a Robot, Jennifer? Why Not?” has been published in IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems.
I attended the 9th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2021) as a volunteer team member.
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.
We received the Second Best Paper Award for our paper “A Decentralized Token-Based Negotiation Approach for Multi-Agent Path Finding” at EUMAS 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.
I have been accepted as a Research Intern in Brown University’s E-GLAMOR Group, starting in June 2021.
I will be joining the Affective Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory at the University of Cambridge as a Research Intern, starting in January 2022.
Our project ranked 1st at the IBM Watson & RPI Human Multi-Agent Immersive Negotiation Challenge at IJCAI 2020.
I am starting my M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence at Ozyegin University this semester with a Graduate Fellowship.
I received a Research Scholarship from The Scientific and Research Council of Turkey - Grant number: 118E197.