Izmir High School Panel - Future of AI with Future of Turkiye

​Izmir Fen Lisesi and Bornova Anadolu Lisesi AI Panel

​Date: 10 February, 2025

​Time: 19:00 - 20:30 GMT+03:00

​Format: Online/In Person

​Language: The panel will be held in Turkish.

​Panelist 1

​Beliz Günel is a Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, currently working on generative AI and large language models. Prior to joining Google, she also worked at Facebook AI and Microsoft. She received her Ph.D. in Machine Learning from Stanford University.

​Panelist 2

​Ozan Bilgen is the founder and CTO of Base64 AI, which built the first Document AI system capable of understanding and extracting data from all types of documents. He previously worked at IBM, TUBITAK, Microsoft, Netflix, PayPal, Uber, and Palantir for more than 17 years. He completed his M.S. in Computer Science at Istanbul Technical University.

​Panelist 3

​Turker Coskun is the Senior Director of Product at C3 AI. He serves as the General Manager for C3 AI Generative AI in the public sector and is responsible for product development. Previously, he worked as an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company. He earned his MBA from Harvard University.

​Panelist 4

​Ekin Akyürek is pursuing his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research focuses on identifying simple biases that enable compositional generalization in neural language models to achieve human-like understanding. He previously worked as a researcher at Google.

​Moderator

​Tunahan Gumuskaya is a Senior Associate in Global Commodities at JPMorgan Chase. Prior to that, he worked as a Senior Quant at National Grid, developing quantitative models for energy trading. He is currently pursuing his M.S. in Applied Mathematics at Columbia University. He is co-founder of Yapaybuzeka, science channel with 1.4 million subscribers.