Res.Assist. Mehmet Ali Erkan

Room No: 138

E-mail: maerkan@metu.edu.tr

Phone: +90 312 210 5320

Fax: +90 312 210 2979

CV || Personal Web Page || Git-Hub

                

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)
  • STAT 333 - Data Structures and Algorithms (Spring 2025)
  • STAT 250 - Applied Statistics (Spring 2025)

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 (2025) A Novel Framework for Next Word Prediction Using Long Short-Term Memory Networks, Dokuz Eylul University Faculty of Engineering Journal of Science and Engineering (In Production)

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. (2025) Sustainable Science Mapping: Benchmarking Green AI against Transformers for Cross-Disciplinary Abstract Classification using arXiv. (Under review)

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.


Son Güncelleme:
11/01/2026 - 15:44