Research & Engineering Team

Our experienced, expert team

Onur Çelikkan

Onur Çelikkan

Co-founder · CEO

MSc in natural language processing; 15 years in enterprise software. Leads Ilmek’s product and commercial strategy.

Dr. Defne Gürsoy

Dr. Defne Gürsoy

Chief Scientist

PhD on Turkish language models and information retrieval. More than 20 peer-reviewed publications.

Yiğit Tombul

Yiğit Tombul

Head of ML Engineering

Leads model deployment, MLOps and real-time inference infrastructure.

Dr. Pınar Şenlik

Dr. Pınar Şenlik

Speech & NLP Research Lead

Specialist in speech recognition and dialogue systems; principal researcher of Ilmek Asistan and Ilmek Ses.

Arda Kocakaya

Arda Kocakaya

Computer Vision Lead

Works on few-shot learning and industrial visual inspection.

Zeynep Alpaslan

Zeynep Alpaslan

Director of Customer Solutions

Manages pilot scope, ROI measurement and production rollout.

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