Leadership, Community and Honors

T3 Foundation Rising Star Scholar

Türkiye Technology Team (T3) FoundationNov 2022 - Oct 2025

The T3 Foundation’s Rising Star Program is a ten-month initiative for 100 university students with technology leadership potential, offering skills training and networking opportunities with Turkey’s top technology figures.

2022-2023: a social-networking app for tech teams and mentors, working on project management and backend development.

2023-2024: T3AI, Türkiye's first multi-organization national LLM and data-curation project, working on data curation.

2024-2025: developed MCP servers and specialized models, helped organize and manage the T3AI community, and gave community presentations on NLP concepts.

Co-organized technical workflows for TEKNOFEST with T3.

T3 AI Hackathon 2024

T3 FoundationSep 2024

Contributed to the design and organization of the T3 AI Hackathon, Türkiye's first national AI hackathon, held alongside TEKNOFEST 2024, and assisted and guided participating teams.

TEKNOFEST

T3 · Baykar TechnologySep 2023 - Oct 2026

Took part in TEKNOFEST, Türkiye's national technology festival, as a representative of the T3 Foundation and of Baykar.

ARTLAB AI conference

Skylab AI Research Lab (YTU Computer Science Club)Sep 2024

Co-organized ARTLAB, an AI conference where invited speakers covered the latest trends, the state of industry-academia collaboration and where AI is heading, as a member of Skylab AI Research Lab.

Volunteer AI Instructor

T3 Foundation & Skylab (YTU Computer Science Club)

Taught introductory AI courses to T3 scholars, undergraduates and high-school students, alongside mentoring and public-engagement social-responsibility initiatives.

Hugging Face Builders

Open-source AI meet-upMay 2026

Presented COSMOS's work and mine to the open-source AI community.

NVIDIA developer community managers

NVIDIAJun 2026

Spoke about where AI stands in Türkiye and how COSMOS fits into it, sharing work from the lab and my own.