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Academic Achievements
Publications: ViLMA, a zero-shot evaluation benchmark for video-language models accepted to ICLR 2024; CRAFT, a benchmark for causal reasoning about forces and interactions accepted to Findings of ACL 2022; “Modulating Bottom-Up and Top-Down Visual Processing via Language-Conditional Filters” accepted to 5th Multimodal Learning and Applications Workshop hosted by CVPR 2022; Awards: Best paper award at the 5th Multimodal Learning and Applications Workshop hosted by CVPR 2022; Competition: 2nd place in the Euphemism Detection shared task organized by the 3rd Workshop on Figurative Language Processing; Projects: Turkish NLP benchmark Cetvel made publicly available
Research Experience
Currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Language and Multimodal Processing Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen; Visited Iacer Calixto’s group at Amsterdam Medical Center, University of Amsterdam from September to October 2022
Education
PhD: Koç University, supervised by Deniz Yuret and Aykut Erdem; Bachelor: Istanbul Technical University, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering
Background
Research Interests: Natural Language Processing (NLP), particularly vision-language tasks and multilingual language learning. Was a PhD student at Koç University.