About Me
I’m a second year Ph.D. student at the Virginia Tech, member of Society + AI & Language (SAIL) Lab I where work with Dr. Eugenia Rho.
My work is at the intersection of Natural Language Processing, Human-Computer Interaction, and Computational Social Science. I am interested in leveraging AI and data from various online social platforms to gain a deeper understanding of people and their behavior for social good.
Education
- Ph.D in Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Expected 2027
- Advised by Dr. Eugenia Rho
- Research Area: Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science
- M.S. in Computer Science, Sabanci University, Dec 2022
- Advised by Dr. Reyyan Yeniterzi
- B.S. in Computer Science, Sabanci University, Jun 2020
Publications
SU-NLP at SemEval-2022 Task 11: Complex Named Entity Recognition with Entity Linking
Buse Çarık, Fatih Beyhan, Reyyan Yeniterzi
SemEval Workshop at ACL 2022A Turkish Hate Speech Dataset and Detection System
Fatih Beyhan, Buse Çarık, İnanç Arın, Ayşecan Terzioğlu, Berrin Yanikoglu, Reyyan Yeniterzi
LREC 2022A Twitter Corpus for named entity recognition in Turkish
SU-NLP at CheckThat! 2021: Check-Worthiness of Turkish Tweets
Experience
- Research Assistant (SAIL @ VT)
Virginia Tech, Jan 2023-Present- Supervised by Eugenia Rho
- Working on using language generation techniques to develop an interactive UI system that assists users in craft- ing online counter-responses against hateful content
- Wokring on investigating the language of resistance towards government-mandated health practices in COVID
- Research Assistant (SUSAIL @ Sabanci University)
End-to-end Neural Entity Linking System with Entitypedia and EntityBERT
Sabanci University, Apr 2021-Nov 2022- Supervised by Reyyan Yeniterzi
- Detecting named entities in news and short texts in social media
- Matching with social media posts and news using the discovered entities
- Research Assistant (SUSAIL @ Sabanci University)
A Deep Learning-Based Hate Speech Detection System: A Comparative Analysis of Turkey and Tunisia
Sabanci University, Mar 2020 - Mar 2021- Supervised by Berrin Yanıkoğlu, Reyyan Yeniterzi, Ayşecan Terzioğlu
- Creating the first social media dataset and annotation schema for hate speech in Turkish
- Developing hate speech detection system using neural and transformer models
Teaching
- Teaching Assisstant
Advanced Machine Learning
Virginia Tech, Jan 2023-Present- Holding weekly office hours
- Co-designing and grading assignments
- Teaching Assisstant
Natural Language Processing
Sabanci University, Jan 2022-Jun 2022- Holding weekly office hours
- Led problem-solving sessions sections of 120 students
- Co-designing and grading assignments
- Teaching Assisstant Computational Approaches to Problem Solving
Sabanci University, Sept 2021-Jan 2022- Leading weekly problem-solving sessions of 30 students
- Holding weekly office hours
- Head Teaching Assisstant Machine Learning
Sabanci University, Sept 2020-Jun 2021- Led problem-solving sessions sections of 120 students on implementation of machine learning algorithms
- Co-designing and grading assignments
- Holding weekly office hours
- Learning Assisstant Operating Systems
Sabanci University, Sept 2019-Jan 2020- Assisted 100 undergraduate students with course material and assignments