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Education:
- M.Sc.: Department of Statistics, Middle East Technical University, Turkey, 2023 - 2025
- B.Sc.: Department of Statistics, Middle East Technical University, Turkey, 2019 - 2023
Research Interests:
- Machine Learning
- Statistical Consulting
- Psychometrics
- Deep Learning
- Text Mining
- Educational Statistics
Assisted Courses / Laboratories:
- STAT 295 - Object Orianted Programming (Spring 2024)
- STAT 495 - Application in Statistics (Spring 2024)
- STAT 311 - Modern Database Systems (Fall 2024, Fal 2025)
- STAT 333 - Data Structures and Algorithms (Spring 2025, Spring 2026)
- STAT 250 - Applied Statistics (Spring 2025)
- STAT 401 - Introduction to Big Data (Spring 2026)
Selected Publications:
Yucesan E, Erkan MA, Deveci A, Medeni IT (2024) Bekenbey AI: Innovative Solutions at the Intersection of Deep Learning and Law, Journal of Engineering Faculty, 2(2): 185-192
Deveci A, Erkan MA, Medeni IT, Medeni TD (2026) A Novel Framework for Next Word Prediction Using Long-Short Term Memory Networks, Dokuz Eylul University Faculty of Engineering Journal of Science and Engineering, 28(82): 113–120, doi:10.21205/deufmd.2026288215
Erkan MA, Koçak, H.E (2025) Perceptions of the Metaverse at the Peak of the Hype Cycle: A Cross-Sectional Study Among Turkish University Students. arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.17750
Deveci, A., Erkan, MA, Medeni, IT, Medeni, TD. (2025) Innovative Approaches to High-Energy Gamma Particle Classification: A Coevolutionary Artificial Neural Network for Cherenkov Telescopes. In Proceedings of CAIAC, Vol. 25, p. 37.
Erkan, MA., Yozgatlıgil C. (2026) Sustainable Science Mapping: Benchmarking Green AI against Transformers for Cross-Disciplinary Abstract Classification using arXiv. (Under review)
Erkan, MA, Yozgatlıgil C. (2026) TurkishLegalBench: A Comprehensive Multi-Task Benchmark Suite for Turkish Legal NLP, Research Dataset (Zenodo), doi:10.5281/zenodo.18555735 (available at: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18555735, https://hdl.handle.net/11511/118433)
Academic and Professional Experience:
- Research Assistant in the Department of Statistics, Middle East Technical University, Turkey, December 2023 - Present
- Project Intern, Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye Human Resources Office, May-July 2023
- Data Science Intern at Yapı Kredi, July-September 2022
Thesis:
M. A. Erkan, Turkish Legal NLP: A Comprehensive AI Framework for Legal Document Understanding, Summarization, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation, MSc. Thesis. Under the supervision of Yozgatlıgil C.
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