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I'm Berkan, AKA Berk. Reach out 😊!

berkott3002 [at] gmail [dot] com

I am a scientist, developing theories of deep learning.

In my private life, I love family, friends, staying healthy, gardening, water polo, the Beatles, playing piano, and more. 🐨✌️❤️.

Background

PhD

• PhD student at The University of Pennsylvania. Grateful to be advised by Surbhi Goel.
• Interning with James Simon at Imbue.
• 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.