EXPERIENCE
Intern @ MotionShark
• Building AGT — the Artificial General Teacher. Partnered with Prep Expert (as seen on Shark Tank and owned by Mark Cuban)
Co-Founder @ Piyonist
• Built AI-powered chess engine and personalized coaching platform; implemented MCTS, Minimax, and adaptive agents to deliver data-driven training at scale.
Medical AI @ TEKNOFEST
• Led interdisciplinary AI teams to national finals across healthcare, aviation, and e-commerce; coordinated research, modeling, and technical presentations.
AI Engineer @ ARF
- • Benchmarked 15+ LLMs for educational and speech tasks; evaluated reasoning, QA, and TTS performance to guide real-world edtech product decisions.
Head of Technology @ Cotton Biotechnology
- • Managed company-wide IT and digital infrastructure; built and maintained the website and optimized technical operations.
Software Engineer Intern @ Sobuman Software
• Built enterprise e-commerce integration software called Partogo; designed C# desktop UI and improved system maintainability.
PUBLICATIONS
EchoLLaMA: 3D-to-Speech with Multimodal AI
Preprint · 3D-to-Speech with multimodal AI
Pamuk, A. E., Kocabay, S. T., Ozdemir, E. K.
PaperSuperpositional Gradient Descent: Harnessing Quantum Principles for Model Training
Accepted at IEEE QAI 2025 · Superposition for model training (beats Adam & AdamW)
Pamuk, A. E.*, Ozdemir, E. K.*, Kocabay, S. T.
Paper