
Hakan is a Ph.D. student in Computer and Information Science at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. With a strong foundation in Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering, his academic path has combined research with applied practice. He has contributed to the Turkish NLP community through dataset curation projects for underrepresented languages and broadened his expertise as a Machine Learning Engineer intern in Berlin under the Erasmus+ Traineeship program. His research interests span social computing, agent-based large language models, and computer vision. Beyond research, Hakan is passionate about music and enjoys exploring the creative intersections between technology and art.