- 11/2025
- Currently on leave from my role as Co-founder & CTO at Kanzy Financial Technologies to focus on exploring foundational AI research opportunities.
- 10/2025
- Our paper “An Adaptive Emotion-Aware Strategy for Human-Agent Negotiation: Insights from Real-World Human-Robot Experiments” was presented at the 25th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA).
- 07/2025
- Our paper “Evaluating Modern RAG: Textual, Multimodal, Dense, and Late Interaction Pipelines” was presented at the Workshop on Information Retrieval’s Role in RAG Systems at the 48th ACM SIGIR Conference.
- 05/2025
- Honored to be selected to attend the prestigious Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) as a Young Researcher, connecting with laureates in Mathematics and Computer Science.
- 05/2025
- Kanzy Financial Technologies was accepted into the NVIDIA Inception and the Google for Startups AI programs, recognizing our work in applying AI to financial services.
- 01/2025
- Our paper “Taking into Account Opponent’s Arguments in Human-Agent Negotiations” was published in ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS).
- 08/2024
- Presented our two papers, “NegoLog: An Integrated Python-based Automated Negotiation Framework with Enhanced Assessment Components” and “NEGOTIATOR: A Comprehensive Framework for Human-Agent Negotiation Integrating Preferences, Interaction, and Emotion”, at the 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) in Jeju Island, South Korea.
- 03/2024
- Our paper “Decentralized Multi-Agent Path Finding Framework and Strategies Based on Automated Negotiation” was published in Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (JAAMAS).
- 03/2024
- Co-founded Kanzy Financial Technologies in London, taking on the role of Chief Technology Officer (CTO).
- 03/2024
- Presented our paper “You Look Nice, but I Am Here to Negotiate: The Influence of Robot Appearance on Negotiation Dynamics” at the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).
- 11/2023
- Our paper "Conflict Based Negotiation Strategy for Human-Agent Negotiation" has been published in Springer's Applied Intelligence Journal
- 10/2023
- You can access our pre-print journal paper "Decentralized Multi-Agent Path Finding Framework and Strategies Based on Automated Negotiation" in the Research Square.
- 10/2023
- I received my MSc. degree in Artificial Intelligence with summa cum laude at Ozyegin University. My thesis, "A Comprehensive Human-Agent Negotiation Framework: Preferences, Emotion & Interaction" will be published!
- 09/2023
- Our paper "Effects of Agent's Embodiment in Human-Agent Negotiations” has been accepted to the 23rd ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents - IVA’23.
- 06/2023
- I attended AAMAS 2023 as the organizer of the 14th Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC).
- 02/2023
- I have been selected as the Secretary and Board Member of the IEEE Computer Science Society Turkey Chapter for the terms 2023-2025.
- 01/2023
- I have been selected as the organizer of the 14th Automated Negotiating Agents Competition (ANAC) at AAMAS 2023.
- 08/2022
- Our paper “Time Series Predictive Models for Opponent Behavior Modeling in Bilateral Negotiations” has been accepted to PRIMA 2022.
- 07/2022
- I attended IJCAI 2022 as a volunteer team member in Vienna, Austria.
- 06/2022
- I am honored to receive the prestigious IEEE Computer Society Richard E. Merwin Student Scholarship.
- 06/2022
- I received the Outstanding Research Assistant Award at Ozyegin University for 2021-2022.
- 06/2022
- We organized the 7th Turkish Science Academy Machine Learning Summer School.
- 03/2022
- I have been accepted as a Research Intern in the Interactive Intelligence Group at TU Delft, starting in July 2022.
- 02/2022
- Our paper “Would You Imagine Yourself Negotiating With a Robot, Jennifer? Why Not?” has been published in IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems.
- 05/2021
- I will be joining the Affective Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory at the University of Cambridge as a Research Intern, starting in January 2022.
- 08/2021
- We won 2nd place in both the Standard and Collusion tracks of the Supply-Chain Management League (SCML) 2021 with the collaboration of Brown University’s E-GLAMOR Group.
- 08/2021
- I attended the 9th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2021) as a volunteer team member.
- 06/2021
- We received the Second Best Paper Award for our paper “A Decentralized Token-Based Negotiation Approach for Multi-Agent Path Finding” at EUMAS 2021.
- 05/2021
- I have been accepted as a Research Intern in Brown University’s E-GLAMOR Group, starting in June 2021.
- 05/2021
- I attended AAMAS 2021 to present our paper titled “Solver agent: towards emotional and opponent-aware agent for human-robot negotiation” and worked as a volunteer team member.
- 01/2021
- Our project ranked 1st at IBM Watson’s & RPI’s Human Multi-Agent Immersive Negotiation Challenge at IJCAI 2020.
- 01/2020
- I received a Research Scholarship from The Scientific and Research Council of Turkey - Grant number: 118E197.
- 01/2020
- I am starting my M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence at Ozyegin University this semester with a Graduate Fellowship.
