Eren Ulu
Eren Ulu is an instructor in the Department of Computer Engineering at TED University. Dr. Ulu has been working at TED University for more than 10 years. He started in 2014 as a Teaching Assistant in the Computer Engineering Department and has been a Lecturer there since 2019. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering, where he graduated as the top-ranked student. He continued his academic studies by completing both a Master of Science and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering at HACETTEPE University in Turkey.
Before joining TED University, Dr. Ulu worked as a researcher and engineer at HACETTEPE University Technopark. From 2012 to 2014, he served as a Research Engineer on the TUBITAK-funded project SOBAG-111K030, titled “The Impact of Named Entities on the Performance of Story Link Detection Task Using a Turkish Corpus of News Items.”, focused on how named entities affect the performance of linking news stories using a Turkish news dataset. Following this, from 2014 to 2017, he worked as a Senior Software Developer and Research Engineer on the AFADSIM project (UDAP-G-14-09), titled “Development of AFADSIM Agent-Based Simulation Model for Investigation of Potential Highest Economic and Social Losses Under Worst-Case Scenarios Based on Organizational and Community Resilience,” funded by AFAD (Republic of Turkey Prime Ministry Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency). This project aimed to develop a simulation model to study the potential economic and social losses in worst-case disaster scenarios, based on community and organizational resilience.
He completed his Ph.D. as part of the HACETTEPE University Computer Graphics and Game Studies Lab research group. His research focuses on three main areas: using Reinforcement Learning to improve game-playing algorithms, applying Machine Learning to tasks in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Understanding (NLU), and integrating Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) for enhanced human-computer interaction.