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I'm Berkan, AKA Berk. I like people, reach out 😊!

berkott3002 [at] gmail [dot] com

Right now, I am most excited about deep learning theory, family (including girlfriend and cats), and staying healthy. For fun, I garden, play water polo, talk to friends, and listen to and play Beatles songs. 🐨✌️❤️.

Background

PhD

• Incoming PhD student at The University of Pennsylvania. Grateful to be advised by Surbhi Goel.
• Incoming intern in Berkeley. Grateful to work with James Simon.
• Data scientist intern at Hawaii Farming.

Undergrad

• Completed my undergrad at Columbia (CS major, applied math minor). Grateful to be advised by Daniel Hsu.
• Garden manager at the Columbia Gardening Club.
• Summer research assistant at The Center for Computational Math at the Flatiron Institute. Grateful to be mainly advised by Berfin Şimşek and helped by Denny Wu.
• Head teaching assistant for Analysis of Algorithms (2 times) at Columbia.
• Teaching assistant for Machine Learning (4 times) at Columbia.

High school

• President and programming head of the Techno Titans, FRC team 1683.
• Software engineering intern at State Farm.
• Machine learning / full stack intern at NimbleThis and Senslytics in Atlanta.