Ahmet Erdem Pamuk

Researcher · Builder

About

Researcher focused on natural language processing, agentic LLMs, multi-agent systems, and voice AI. Building production conversational agents and exploring quantum-inspired optimization for ML. ICLR 2026 DeLTa Workshop reviewer. Work spans LLM evaluation, SAT/edtech AI (MotionShark), chess AI (Piyonist), and medical/vision pipelines (TEKNOFEST). Papers at IEEE QAI and Preprints; Kaggle & DataMedX placements. Based in Ankara.

Experience

Research Engineer Intern Jun 2025 – Present
MotionShark

Building AGT — the Artificial General Teacher. LLM-powered SAT study planner, diagnostics engine, and tutoring agent with structured tool-call orchestration. Partnered with Prep Expert (Shark Tank, Mark Cuban). Shipped full backend, frontend, and admin prompt editor.

Conference Reviewer Feb 2026
ICLR 2026

Reviewer for the DeLTa (Deep Generative Model in Machine Learning: Theory, Principle and Efficacy) Workshop.

Head of Technology Aug 2023 – Dec 2025
Cotton Biotechnology & Cosmetics Ltd

Technical and IT operations for mrpolymers.com. Designed, built, and maintained company website and digital infrastructure.

Co-Founder Feb 2025 – Jul 2025
Piyonist

State-of-the-art chess engine and personalized AI coaching platform for Turkish users. MCTS, Minimax, adaptive agents; deployed piyonist.com.

AI Researcher Nov 2024 – Mar 2025
ARF

Evaluated and benchmarked LLMs for educational use cases. Research on QA and text-to-speech; worked with DeepSeek-R1/V3, Llama3, Qwen2.5, GPT-4o/mini, o1, o3. Technical insights informed product strategy.

Software Engineer Intern Jun 2024 – Aug 2024
Sobuman Software

Developed Partogo, an e-commerce integration platform for cargo tracking and invoicing. C# Windows Forms UI; platform served 50+ businesses by 2025.

Competitor & Team Captain Aug 2024 – Sep 2025
TEKNOFEST

Team Lyra AI (Trendyol E-Commerce Hackathon Finalist); Lyra Medicus (AI in Healthcare Finalist); HezarFen (AI in Aviation Finalist); CatBoost Baseline (Trendyol E-Commerce Hackathon Finalist). Led multidisciplinary teams across healthcare, aviation, and e-commerce tracks.

Publications

EchoLLaMA: 3D-to-Speech with Multimodal AI
Preprint · 2025
Pamuk A.E., Kocabay S.T., Ozdemir E.K.
Paper
Superpositional Gradient Descent: Harnessing Quantum Principles for Model Training
IEEE International Conference on Quantum Artificial Intelligence (QAI) 2025
Pamuk A.E.*, Ozdemir E.K.*, Kocabay S.T.
Paper