People — ANLAM-Net Lab

01 Principal Investigator

Principal Investigator

Assoc. Prof. Murat Karakus

Department of Software Engineering · Ankara University, Turkey

Murat Karakus received his B.Sc. in Mathematics from Suleyman Demirel University (2009), his M.Sc. in Computer Science and Information Systems from the University of Michigan-Flint (2013), and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Purdue School of Science (2018). He is currently an Associate Professor and the Head of the Department of Software Engineering at Ankara University. Dr. Karakus has authored over 50 peer-reviewed publications and serves as a reviewer for leading IEEE, ACM, and Elsevier venues. He has served on organizing committees of major IEEE conferences (MeditCom, BalkanCom, BCCA, BlackSeaCom), delivered tutorials at MeditCom 2023, BCCA 2023, and CCNC 2025, and given invited talks at events including IEEE Blockchain Summit 2022, Blockchain Summit Turkiye 2024, SIBIS 2024, ISMSIT 2025, and ISCTurkiye 2025. His research interests include next-generation networking, blockchain, NLP, network scalability, QoS, and routing. He has led several TUBITAK-funded and industry-supported research projects.

Large Language Models Turkish NLP Multilingual AI Multimedia Processing LLM Evaluation Document Summarization

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02 Principal Investigators & Investigators

Principal Investigator

Assist. Prof. Dr. Rukiye Savran Kiziltepe

Department of Software Engineering · Ankara University, Turkey

Assist. Prof. Dr. Rukiye Savran Kiziltepe is a Principal Investigator at ANLAM-Net Lab in the Department of Software Engineering at Ankara University. Her research focuses on machine learning methods for natural language processing, with emphasis on Turkish sentiment analysis, annotation strategies, applied NLP systems, and robust evaluation of large language models.

Machine Learning Applied NLP Text Classification Cross-lingual Models

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Dr. Ercan Ezin

Lecturer · Department of Computer Engineering · Harran University

Ercan Ezin is a tenured faculty member at Harran University. He received his Ph.D. in Context-Aware Recommender Systems from the University of Bristol (2024) and an MSc from the University of Essex. His research interests include AI, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing, with a focus on Context-Aware Next-POI Recommendations. With a background as a Data Scientist and Software Developer, he combines academic expertise with extensive industry experience in AI research and software engineering.

Context-Aware Recommender Systems Natural Language Processing Next-POI Recommendation LLM Fine-tuning Sentiment Analysis Machine Learning

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Investigator

Prof. Asim Egemen Yilmaz

Faculty of Engineering · Ankara University, Turkey

Prof. Dr. A. Egemen Yilmaz received dual B.Sc. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Mathematics from Middle East Technical University (METU) in 1997, and completed his M.Sc. (2000) and Ph.D. (2007) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at METU. After holding multiple roles in defense industry companies between 1996 and 2009, he joined Ankara University as a faculty member in 2009. He currently serves as Head of the Departments of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Software Engineering, and also leads the Interdisciplinary Artificial Intelligence Technologies graduate program under the Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences. In addition, he is Deputy Director of the Smart Systems and Technologies Research and Application Center (ASTAM). He founded EDY R&D in 2011 and has led software projects, particularly for the defense industry, while also delivering numerous in-person and online certificate programs through his company and continuing education centers at multiple universities. He has authored many national and international peer-reviewed publications with more than 1,250 citations.

Artificial Intelligence Technologies Defense Industry Software Software Engineering Electrical and Electronics Engineering

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03 Research Fellows

PhD Candidate · AI Research Fellow

Fatih Bildirici

PhD Candidate in Artificial Intelligence

Fatih Bildirici is a PhD Candidate and AI Research Fellow at ANLAM-Net Lab. His research focuses on explainable AI, human-centered NLP, and evaluation of large language models, with particular interest in faithful reasoning, hallucination analysis, and practical AI systems for Turkish.

Explainable AI LLM Evaluation Human-Centered NLP Turkish NLP

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04 Undergraduate Researchers

Undergraduate Researcher

Berkay Bayramoglu

Department of Software Engineering · Ankara University, Turkey

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Undergraduate Researcher

Mert Ficici

Department of Software Engineering · Ankara University, Turkey

05 Open Positions

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PhD Student — Turkish LLM Research

We are seeking motivated PhD students to work on parameter-efficient adaptation and evaluation of large language models for Turkish and Turkic languages.

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Research Intern — Multimodal NLP

Internship positions available for strong MSc students interested in multimodal sentiment analysis, cross-modal retrieval, or multimedia AI research.

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Visiting Researcher

We welcome short-term visiting researchers from partner institutions. If you work in NLP, LLMs, or multimedia AI and are interested in collaboration, reach out.

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ANLAM-Net Lab is committed to fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive research environment. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds. Proficiency in Turkish is not required for most positions.