Projects

Selected research and engineering projects in NLP and machine learning.

discontinued May 2025 – Mar 2026

LLM Collusion and Identifiability in Code Generation

Investigates whether large language models can recognize or attribute code authored by themselves or other LLMs.

published Jul 2025 – Apr 2026 Koç University

Bias Toward Languages Studied in NLP Peer Reviews

First systematic study of language-of-study bias in NLP peer review, finding that non-English papers face bias rates roughly 40× higher than English-only ones.

completed Sept 2024 – Apr 2025 Koç University

Multimodal Framework for Detecting Implicit Hate Speech on Social Media

Designed a hybrid framework combining text encoders (BERT, LLaMA) with vision backbones (Swin Transformer, ViT) to detect subtle hate speech.

completed Jun 2024 – Sept 2024 Koç University

Named Entity Recognition in Turkish Tweets (Yildirim Platform)

Developed an annotation platform (Yildirim) for labeling named entities in Turkish tweets.

completed Jul 2023 – Sept 2023 Koç University

Procedural Text Understanding via Python Code Representation

Explored Python code representation as an intermediate reasoning layer for LLMs.

completed Feb 2022 – Apr 2022 Massively Multilingual NLU 2022 shared task

Intent Prediction and Slot Filling with Alexa MASSIVE Dataset

Trained multilingual intent and slot-filling models on the Alexa MASSIVE dataset using PyTorch and custom hyper-parameters.

completed May 2020

Shilling Attack Detection in Recommender Systems

Investigated detection of profile injection (shilling) attacks in recommender systems.