Cagri Toramanمشاهده پروفایل
استادیار
Cagri Toraman is an Assistant Professor at Middle East Technical University's Computer Engineering Department, leading the Applied NLP Group. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Bilkent University (2017) and has industry experience as Software Engineer (Havelsan 2017-2018), Postdoctoral Research Scientist (University of Central Florida 2018-2019), and NLP Team Lead (Aselsan 2020-2023). PhD in Computer Science (Bilkent University, 2017) Postdoctoral Research Scientist (University of Central Florida, 2018-2019) NLP Team Lead (Aselsan, 2020-2023) His research focuses on Natural Language Processing , Generative AI , and Social Computing , with particular emphasis on low-resource language adaptation, hate speech detection, multimodal analysis, and misinformation identification. Recent work examines dataset quality evaluation, transformer optimization with tweet-specific elements, and pejorative language disambiguation for misogyny detection. Notable achievements include receiving the Google Gemma Academic Research Award 2024 . He teaches core courses in Data Structures and Applied Natural Language Processing , emphasizing both theoretical foundations and practical implementation. Research trends show expertise across: Multilingual dataset creation (MiDe22, JL-Hate) Transformer-based hate speech detection Generative AI adaptation for Turkish Ensemble learning in socio-political event extraction Contextual word embeddings analysis Conversational system robustness





