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Özge Karasu Özge Karasu

Curiosity leads me. I follow and write.

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Research & Applied Projects

Projects that move from idea to algorithm, thinking with data and speaking through models.

Master's Project

Green Energy Demand Forecasting under Changing Conditions

Queen Mary University of London • February 2025 - August 2025

Built a daily UK green-energy-demand dataset and compared statistical and neural forecasting models to examine their reliability and failure modes under volatile and changing conditions.

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Course Project

Evaluating Dialogue Act Classifiers under Class Imbalance

Queen Mary University of London • February 2025 - April 2025

Compared BiLSTM and CNN-BiLSTM dialogue-act classifiers on the Switchboard corpus, showing how approximately 70% overall accuracy concealed severe minority-class failures.

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Course Project

Cost-Aware Search for London Underground Route Planning

Queen Mary University of London • November 2024 - December 2024

Compared BFS, DFS, UCS, and zone-guided heuristic search on London Underground routes, reducing node exploration by approximately 70–85% with heuristic guidance while UCS consistently achieved minimum observed travel cost.

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Course Project

Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search for Farsi Vowel Classification

Queen Mary University of London • November 2024 - December 2024

Used a Genetic Algorithm to search feed-forward neural-network architectures for six-class Farsi vowel classification, examining how evolutionary search behaviour and validation performance changed across population sizes.

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Course Project

Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Distribution Diagnostics for Dow Jones Returns

Queen Mary University of London • October 2024 - November 2024

Implemented Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Dow Jones daily returns, validating the estimator against SciPy while examining the distinction between correct parameter estimation and an appropriate distributional model.

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Course Project

Statistical Robustness under Heavy-Tailed Distributions

Queen Mary University of London • October 2024 - November 2024

Used simulation and distributional analysis to examine when classical LLN and CLT guarantees remain reliable and how heavy-tailed data can cause standard asymptotic reasoning to fail.

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Graduation Project

Multi-View 3D Vehicle Reconstruction from Video

Sabancı University • February 2023 – January 2024

Developed a multi-stage computer-vision pipeline combining YOLOv5, MiDaS depth estimation, camera calibration, feature detection, and geometric alignment to reconstruct vehicles from multiple video viewpoints.

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Internship Project

Time Series Forecasting for Siemens Electrical Product Sales

Siemens Turkey • August 2022 – October 2022

Analysed five years of Siemens electrical-product sales data and developed a SARIMA forecasting workflow to support demand planning and operational decision-making.

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Course Project

Functional Enrichment of Estradiol-Responsive Genes in MCF7 Cells

Sabancı University • February 2021 - May 2021

Analysed differentially expressed genes from estradiol-treated MCF7 cells using functional enrichment and multiple-testing correction to identify biological processes associated with hormone-responsive transcription.

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Course Project

Unsupervised Clustering of Pan-Cancer Gene Expression

Sabancı University • March 2021 - May 2021

Analysed gene-expression profiles from 801 cancer patients across 20,531 genes using K-Means, PCA, and t-SNE, comparing alternative cluster-selection criteria with known cancer types.

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