AtalayDenknalbant

Data Scientist, PhD Student

I build practical machine learning systems and research how they can see, learn, and improve.

  • Computer vision
  • Reinforcement learning
  • Data products
4+
years
34
public repos
7
Spaces
2
published papers

Selected work

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Computer Vision YOLO

ASL Detector YOLO

American Sign Language detection built with YOLO and deployed across Hugging Face and Android surfaces.

Product WebGPU

otoPILOT Ikinciel

AI car search for the Turkish used car market using Qwen3, browser inference, and arabam.com crawling.

Credit Risk Tabular ML

Synthetic Istanbul Credit Risk

Credit risk estimation with non financial features and a privacy preserving synthetic Istanbul dataset.

100,000 synthetic resident records in the study
Civic Data Notebook

IBB Education Aid

Data insight notebook for Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality scholarship aid data.

Public analysis project using IBB open data
Reinforcement Learning VizDoom

DoomRL Baselines

Reinforcement learning baseline project for Doom with VizDoom and Stable Baselines 3.

Analytics Tableau

National Currencies Per US Dollar

Interactive Tableau dashboard for comparing national currency values against the US dollar.

OCR Selenium

Mersis Captcha Solver

Automation pipeline for solving captchas on the MERSIS portal using Selenium and Microsoft TrOCR.

Used in company verification workflows
Dataset Captcha

MathCaptcha10k

Math captcha dataset and generation tooling designed for OCR experiments and captcha model training.

Dataset Games

RAWG Games Dataset

Game metadata dataset prepared for analytics, recommendation, and ranking experiments.

CIFAR 10 Comparison

DNN vs DCNN

Image classification experiment comparing deep neural networks and convolutional models on CIFAR 10.

Publications

Double DQN publication visual with instance segmentation workflow
2025 | IEEE ASYU

Reinforcement Learning Approach to Instance Segmentation Using Double DQN

Conference paper applying reinforcement learning to instance segmentation with a Double DQN approach.

DOI 10.1109/ASYU67174.2025.11208352
Budgerigar publication visual with model results
2024 | IEEE UBMK

Advanced Computer Vision Techniques for Reliable Gender Determination in Budgerigars

Conference paper on object detection and deep learning for budgerigar gender recognition. Published in UBMK 2024 Proceedings.

DOI 10.1109/UBMK63289.2024.10773570

Experience

to Present

Freelance Data Scientist | Upwork

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Data Scientist | Kervan Gida

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AI Bootcamp Developer | Samsung Innovation Campus

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Data Scientist | BK Law Firm

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Data Scientist | Ignitus

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Data Scientist | Behaivior

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Software Engineer Intern | Optiim