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I am an NLP researcher with a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Middle East Technical University where I focused on multimodal, multilingual and explainable AI for fact-checking. Additionally, I was a visiting predoctoral researcher at the University of Tübingen for 13 months.
Currently, as part of the EU-funded EXA4MIND project, I develop NLP pipelines that translate natural language into queries for database systems using LLMs and work on integrating natural language interfaces into high-performance computing environments. I’m passionate about building responsible, scalable AI systems and particularly interested in research that bridges foundational work with real-world applications.
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Email: rfcekinel[at]ceng.metu.edu.trAddress: METU Computer Eng. Dept. A-206 06800 Ankara Turkey
Telephone: +90-(312)-210-5593
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