Kadir Bulut Ozler

About

Hi. I'm Bulut. My computer science interests are machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision. My research interests have been transfer learning, language models, text classification, landmark detection. I am open to new areas. My other interests are incivility, misinformation, discrimination in the internet. Website at

kbulutozler.github.io

Experience

University of Arizona, Computational Language Understanding Lab

Jan 2021 – Present

Tucson, AZ

Graduate Research Associate

• Working on temporal information extraction with state of the art language models

CicekSepeti.com / Lolaflora.com

Mar 2020 – Jul 2020

Istanbul, TR

Data Science Intern

• Worked on detecting similarity between millions of products by description and images • Worked on improving search quality

Istanbul Technical University

Jun 2018 – Jul 2020

Istanbul, TR

Research Member

• Worked on analyzing offensive language in social media with transfer learning and other methods • Researched training several language models for Turkish (a low resource language) • Built an ear landmark detector with low quality image dataset using deep CNNs for “The Unconstrained Ear Recognition Challenge 2019” • Built a sentence splitter tool by using JAVA and Regex for ITU Turkish NLP Pipeline, processed over half a billion token collected from internet articles

University of Arizona, Computational Language Understanding Lab

Jun 2019 – Dec 2019

Tucson, AZ

Intern

• Worked on detecting incivility on the internet • Researched and analyzed robust classification methods that can work on datasets with different characteristics and different domains

Education

University of Arizona

Aug 2020 – Present

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Information

Istanbul Technical University

Jun 2016 – Jun 2020

Bachelor of Science (B.S.),, Computer Engineering

Skills

Languages