Hi, I'm

Ruşen Birben

AI & Data Engineer

AI & Data Engineering graduate from Istanbul Technical University, passionate about NLP, LLMs, and building intelligent systems. Currently working on agentic AI applications.

İstanbul, Türkiye

Experience

Junior AI Engineer

03/2025 – 07/2025

CyberQuote · Istanbul, Türkiye

Working on AI automations and agentic LLM implementations for Phillip Capital subsidiary. Building intelligent systems for internal operations and customer-facing websites.

NLP Research Intern

07/2024 – 08/2024

ITU NLP Lab · Istanbul, Türkiye

Researched LLMs for financial applications including forecasting, sentiment analysis, tool usage, financial reasoning, and RAG implementations.

AIOps Research Intern

08/2024 – 09/2024

Havelsan · Istanbul, Türkiye

Conducted research for AIOps project using software log data for predictive maintenance. Generated demos on HDFS logs.

Projects

Tobor - Amazon Warehouse Robot

09/2024 – 01/2025

Developed an autonomous warehouse robot system simulating Amazon's logistics operations. Designed pathfinding, obstacle avoidance, and task scheduling algorithms. The robot detects humans and cargo boxes with a custom-trained YOLO model.

PythonROS2YOLORobotics

Biting The Bytes - Turkish Diacritic Restoration

03/2024 – 06/2024

Improved Turkish text by automatically adding missing accent marks and special characters using T5, a transformer model by Google. The system restores proper diacritics for enhanced readability.

NLPT5TransformersTurkish

AIZheimer - Machine Unlearning on Stable Diffusion

03/2024 – 06/2024

Selectively removed specific concepts from Stable Diffusion 2.1 while keeping other capabilities intact. Useful for content moderation and customizing AI output.

Stable DiffusionMachine UnlearningComputer Vision

To-AI-or-Not-to-AI - GPT Detector

03/2023 – 06/2023

Developed an ensemble method to detect AI-generated text using three fine-tuned models. Addresses concerns about academic integrity and misinformation.

NLPEnsemble LearningClassification

Anime Recommender

09/2022 – 02/2023

Created a personalized anime recommendation system combining collaborative filtering and content-based approaches. Achieved RMSE of 0.289, MAE of 0.213 on the test set.

Recommender SystemsMatrix FactorizationPython

Blog

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Education

B.Sc. in AI and Data Engineering

Istanbul Technical University

09/2022 – 07/2025

3.61GPA

Transferred from Electronics and Communication Engineering program in 2022.

Interests

Coffee

Specialty coffee enthusiast with V60 and Aeropress setup

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Books

Philosophy, AI/CS, and finance

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Anime & Manga

Avid watcher and reader