IDENTITY

RUSEN BIRBEN

AI & DATA ENGINEER
LOCANKARA, TR
STATUSAVAILABLE

AI & Data Engineering graduate from Istanbul Technical University. Building intelligent systems with NLP, LLMs, and agentic AI applications.

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EXPERIENCE

10/2025 — Present
Ankara, TR

Founded an AI lab working on natural language, speech and LLM technologies to democratize AI systems for humanity.

Junior AI Engineer@CyberQuote
03/2025 — 07/2025
Istanbul, TR

Built AI automations and agentic LLM implementations for Phillip Capital subsidiary. Intelligent systems for operations and customer-facing platforms.

NLP Research Intern@ITU NLP Lab
07/2024 — 08/2024
Istanbul, TR

Researched LLMs for financial applications: forecasting, sentiment analysis, tool usage, reasoning, and RAG implementations.

AIOps Research Intern@Havelsan
08/2024 — 09/2024
Istanbul, TR

AIOps research using software log data for predictive maintenance. Generated demos on HDFS logs.

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PROJECTS

Tobor

Amazon Warehouse Robot
2024 — 2025

Autonomous warehouse robot simulating Amazon logistics. Pathfinding, obstacle avoidance, task scheduling. Human/cargo detection with custom YOLO.

PythonROS2YOLORobotics

Biting The Bytes

Turkish Diacritic Restoration
2024

T5-based transformer for restoring Turkish diacritics. Automatically adds accent marks and special characters for enhanced readability.

NLPT5TransformersTurkish

AIZheimer

Machine Unlearning on SD
2024

Selectively removed concepts from Stable Diffusion 2.1 while preserving other capabilities. Content moderation and AI output customization.

Stable DiffusionUnlearningCV

To-AI-or-Not-to-AI

GPT Detector
2023

Ensemble method to detect AI-generated text using three fine-tuned models. Addresses academic integrity and misinformation concerns.

NLPEnsembleClassification

Anime Recommender

Collaborative Filtering
2022 — 2023

Personalized anime recommendations combining collaborative filtering and content-based approaches. RMSE: 0.289, MAE: 0.213.

RecSysMatrix Factorization
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EDUCATION

M.Sc. Computer Engineering (Thesis)

Middle East Technical University
2026 — Present

B.Sc. AI and Data Engineering

Istanbul Technical University
2022 — 2025GPA: 3.61 / 4.00

B.Sc. Electronics & Communication

Istanbul Technical University
2020 — 2022

Transferred to AI & Data Engineering

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INTERESTS

Coffee

V60 • Aeropress • Moka Pot

📚

Books

Philosophy • AI/CS • Finance

📺

Anime & Manga

Watcher • Reader • Collector

💪

Fitness

Lifting • Running • Calisthenics

RUSEN BIRBEN

AI & Data Engineer

Ankara, Turkeycontact@rusen.airusen.ailinkedin.com/in/rusenbirbengithub.com/rusenbb

SUMMARY

AI & Data Engineering graduate from Istanbul Technical University with experience in NLP, LLMs, and agentic AI applications. Co-founder of Fiction Studios, an AI lab focused on democratizing AI systems through natural language, speech, and LLM technologies.

EXPERIENCE

Co-Founder
10/2025 — Present
Fiction StudiosAnkara, TR

Founded an AI lab working on natural language, speech and LLM technologies to democratize AI systems for humanity.

Junior AI Engineer
03/2025 — 07/2025
CyberQuoteIstanbul, TR

Built AI automations and agentic LLM implementations for Phillip Capital subsidiary. Intelligent systems for operations and customer-facing platforms.

NLP Research Intern
07/2024 — 08/2024
ITU NLP LabIstanbul, TR

Researched LLMs for financial applications: forecasting, sentiment analysis, tool usage, reasoning, and RAG implementations.

AIOps Research Intern
08/2024 — 09/2024
HavelsanIstanbul, TR

AIOps research using software log data for predictive maintenance. Generated demos on HDFS logs.

PROJECTS

Tobor2024 — 2025

Autonomous warehouse robot simulating Amazon logistics. Pathfinding, obstacle avoidance, task scheduling. Human/cargo detection with custom YOLO.

Python • ROS2 • YOLO • Robotics
Biting The Bytes2024

T5-based transformer for restoring Turkish diacritics. Automatically adds accent marks and special characters for enhanced readability.

NLP • T5 • Transformers • Turkish
AIZheimer2024

Selectively removed concepts from Stable Diffusion 2.1 while preserving other capabilities. Content moderation and AI output customization.

Stable Diffusion • Unlearning • CV
To-AI-or-Not-to-AI2023

Ensemble method to detect AI-generated text using three fine-tuned models. Addresses academic integrity and misinformation concerns.

NLP • Ensemble • Classification
Anime Recommender2022 — 2023

Personalized anime recommendations combining collaborative filtering and content-based approaches. RMSE: 0.289, MAE: 0.213.

RecSys • Matrix Factorization

EDUCATION

M.Sc. Computer Engineering (Thesis)
Middle East Technical University
2026 — Present
B.Sc. AI and Data Engineering
Istanbul Technical University
2022 — 2025
GPA: 3.61 / 4.00
B.Sc. Electronics & Communication
Istanbul Technical University
2020 — 2022

SKILLS

Languages: Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, SQL, C/C++
Frameworks & Tools: PyTorch, TensorFlow, ROS2, YOLO, Transformers, Scikit-learn, Pandas, NumPy
Specialties: NLP, LLMs, Computer Vision, RAG, MLOps, Agentic AI, Data Engineering

References available upon request • rusen.ai/cv