CV

Education

• M.Sc. in Bioinformatics, Saarland University, 2025 (expected)
• B.S. in Genetics and Bioengineering, Istanbul Bilgi University, 2023
• B.S. in Computer Engineering, Istanbul Bilgi University, 2023

Work experience

• Spring 2023: Undergraduate Research Assistant
  • Istanbul Bilgi University, Genetics and Bioengineering Department
  • Duties includes:
    • Focused on data analysis of adults with Philadelphia chromosome–like acute lymphoblastic leukaemia,data mining procedures applied to various datasets to analyze transcriptomic profiles, metabolic activities, and classification of patients with a diverse subgroup of diseases.
    • The analyses were conducted in slico with R and Python programming languages with affy, progeny, speed2, and pheatmap.
  • Supervisor: Faculty Member, PhD Özlem Ulucan Açan
• Spring 2022: Undergraduate Research Assistant
  • Istanbul Bilgi University, Computer Engineering Department
  • Duties included:
    • The Primary project focused on developing a Turkish image caption dataset with well-known image captioning models and proposing to the research community a benchmark image-caption dataset.
    • Used computational methods to develop automatic image captioning generators and models for English and Turkish languages.
    • These projects led to the submission of 1 conference publication and presentation; the Computer Engineering thesis was conducted through this project and published a paper in IEEExplore.
    • Distributing tasks for the internship members consisting of thirty people, creating jobs, and providing the organization and administration of the database containing the images and the corresponding descriptions using MongoDB.
  • Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Elena Battini Sönmez

Skills

• Programming Languages: Python(Numpy, Pandas, Seaborn, Plotly, sklearn, PyTorch), R(Bioconductor, affy, progeny, speed2, pheatmap), Bash C, C++, Java, Perl, MATLAB, SQL, UML
• Soft Skills: Writing, Project Management, Public Speaking, Leadership, Scrum, Agile
• Languages: English: Professional proficiency, Turkish: Native, German: Beginner
• Tools: Linux, Git, GitHub, \LaTeX, Visual Studio, PyCharm, MS Word, Excel, PP, Canva, Trello

Publications

A complete human verified Turkish caption dataset for MS COCO and performance evaluation with well-known image caption models trained against it

S. B. Golech, S. B. Karacan, E. B. Sönmez and H. Ayral, "A complete human verified Turkish caption dataset for MS COCO and performance evaluation with well-known image caption models trained against it" 2022 International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communications and Mechatronics Engineering (ICECCME), Maldives, Maldives, 2022, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICECCME55909.2022.9988025.

Talks

Conference Proceeding talk 3 on Relevant Topic in Your Field

March 01, 2014

Conference proceedings talk at Testing Institute of America 2014 Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA

Talk 2 on Relevant Topic in Your Field

February 01, 2014

Talk at London School of Testing, London, UK

Tutorial 1 on Relevant Topic in Your Field

March 01, 2013

Tutorial at UC-Berkeley Institute for Testing Science, Berkeley CA, USA

Talk 1 on Relevant Topic in Your Field

March 01, 2012

Talk at UC San Francisco, Department of Testing, San Francisco, California

Teaching

Nesin Villages Algebra and Computer Programming