معرفی
Deniz Yuret is a Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at Koç University, Istanbul, and the founding director of the KUIS AI Center. Previously, he spent 12 years at the MIT AI Lab and co-founded Inquira, Inc.
His research focuses on Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning, with significant contributions in dependency parsing, language modeling, grounded language learning, and character-level NLP. He has pioneered frameworks like Knet, a deep learning library in Julia, and AutoGrad.jl for automatic differentiation.
Deniz's academic work spans neural architectures for language-robot interaction, transfer learning in low-resource NMT, and context embeddings for grammatical category acquisition. His recent publications emphasize transformer models, multimodal systems, and efficient language modeling.
He has supervised multiple graduate students, including Emre Can Açıkgöz (PhD, UIUC), Onur Kuru (M.S. 2016), Saman Zia (M.S. 2016), and Osman Baskaya (M.S. 2015). His projects include the TUBITAK 1001 (2016-2018) and ReGROUND (2015-2018) in collaboration with international institutions.
