Hi there.
I’m Gökhan.
A methodologist and a computational social scientist by training, I have 17 years of experience working in tech, open-source software development, and applied research.
In 2024, I founded Cogentis to work independently at the intersection of industry and academia.
My academic expertise stems from doing a PhD at the London School of Economics. I still maintain ongoing connections to its cutting-edge research and scientific community as a Visiting Senior Fellow at the LSE Data Science Institute.
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Working alongside the CTO, I drove organisational disruption and innovation at Superside, particularly within the service business. My primary focus was on crafting and executing the AI & ML strategy that fuelled new business opportunities and revenue streams.
I led the charge in pioneering novel AI & ML solutions that expanded our product and service portfolios, especially in text-to-image ads space. With autonomy, I explored and defined new business domains where AI & ML can provide a decisive competitive edge. -
Attest is a London based scale-up that aims to make consumer research simple. 130 employees; 12 in Data.
Reporting to CTO, built the D&A function consisting of Data Science (5) and Data Engineering (7); delivering vision, strategy, roadmaps, hiring & growth frameworks. Managed internal stakeholders and the data culture change across the company.
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Quanteda Initiative is a UK non-profit organisation devoted to the promotion of open-source text analysis software.
Led the development of the web app for popular R NLP package quanteda (22k/month, 1.2M total downloads).
Project-managed three software engineers remotely using Kanban framework for agile software development.
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Research Institutes of Sweden is Sweden’s research institute and innovation partner for business competitiveness.
Built human-in-the-loop active and semi-supervised machine learning pipelines (spaCy, prodigy) in multiple languages using large corpora (~30M documents) for data annotation and downstream data analysis.
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Computational social science
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Uppsala Conflict Data Program is the leading provider of quantitative data on organised violence and armed conflict.
Responsible for data management, analysis, visualisation, and story-telling.
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Political Science
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Li & Fung is a Hong Kong based end-to-end supply chain management company.
Responsible for department-wide quantitative operations (sampling, QA).
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Economics