Barathan Aslan

İstanbul, Türkiye
barathanasln@gmail.com

PROFILE

Senior Computer Engineering student at Boğaziçi University with a fascination for pattern recognition and prediction. I apply this tendency across domains, from training ML and LLM models to analyzing markets. I value process over outcomes, and learn from both success and failure.

EDUCATION

2021— Present

Computer Engineering, Boğaziçi University

İstanbul

LANGUAGES

English Professional working proficiency

Spanish Beginner

EXPERIENCE

Boğaziçi University – TRACE

Research Assistant

June 2026 – Present

Türkiye Real-time AI Catalog for Earthquake Monitoring & Early Warning — Kandilli Observatory, supported by Google.org

• Tracing earthquakes.

Pegasus

Associate Data Scientist

July 2025 – July 2026

• Contributed to flight route prediction modeling, supporting operational planning and forecasting.
• Active member of the AI Governance team, working on responsible-AI standards and oversight processes.
• Identified and integrated previously unused data sources into company analytics, expanding analytical coverage across business units.
• Engaged with external partners and vendors during technical evaluations and collaboration discussions.

Fimple

AI Intern

June-August 2024

• Built a local RAG-powered chatbot agent for developers using open-source models, prioritizing data privacy.
• Researched and partially developed natural-language-to-SQL models to enable non-technical banking staff to query data directly.

Doping Technology

Software Engineering Intern

June-August 2023

• Developed a REST API leveraging a pre-trained BERT model for customer issue classification.
• Contributed to Dopi AI, one of Türkiye's first large-scale chatbot agents, applying prompt engineering across open and closed source models.
• Co-created No-Code App Development educational content.

COMPETITIONS & ACHIEVEMENTS

• AlgoRun Hackathon 2025: 1st place
• Datathon AI 2024 – ITU AI Club: 1st place (1/91 in qualification, 1/30 in finals)
• Trendyol Hackathon 2025: 6th place out of 302 teams
• Teknofest T3 AI Hackathon 2024: Final stage; built one of the largest, highest-quality synthetic Turkish LLM datasets (~1B tokens)

PROFILES

Kaggle

@barathanaslan

Competitions, Dataset Creation, ML Models

Github

@barathanaslan

Internship Projects & Personal Projects

Huggingface

@barathanasln

Work On Various Language & Image Models, Synthetic Data Creation

CERTIFICATIONS AND COURSES

• Machine Learning Specialization, DeepLearning.AI Supervised Machine Learning, Advanced Learning Algorithms, Unsupervised Learning, Recommenders, Reinforcement Learning
• Deep Learning Specialization, DeepLearning.AI Neural Networks and Deep Learning, Improving Deep Neural Networks, Structuring Machine Learning Projects, Convolutional Neural Networks, Sequence Models
• Investment Management with Python and Machine Learning, EDHEC Introduction to Portfolio Construction and Analysis with Python, Advanced Portfolio Construction and Analysis with Python, Python and Machine-Learning for Asset Management with Alternative Data Sets
• Reinforcement Learning, University of Alberta Fundamentals of Reinforcement Learning, Sample-based Learning Methods
• Graph Neural Network, Udemy
• 5-Day Gen AI Intensive Course, Kaggle & Google
• ANBEAN Finans ve Yatırım Okulu

ATTENDED EVENTS

• AWS Community Day Türkiye 2024
• Claude Code Meetup Istanbul
• GitHub Enterprise & Copilot Day
• On-site visits to TUSAŞ, BIST, TCMB