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Özge Karasu Özge Karasu

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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 with Volatility-Aware LSTM

Queen Mary University of London February 2025 - August 2025

Developed a new UK daily dataset (2000–2023) and compared ARIMA, SARIMAX+GARCH, and deep learning models to forecast green energy demand.

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Course Project

Interpretable Dialogue Generation with Attention-based Encoder-Decoder

Queen Mary University of London April 2025 - May 2025

Trained and interpreted an attention-based encoder–decoder model for dialogue generation, using beam search decoding and epoch-wise attention analysis.

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Course Project

Context-Aware Dialogue Act Tagging with CNN-BiLSTM Architecture

Queen Mary University of London February 2025 - April 2025

Built a hybrid CNN-BiLSTM model for context-aware dialogue act tagging and visualized attention masks for interpretability.

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Course Project

Character Similarity via Vector Space Semantics

Queen Mary University of London December 2024 – January 2025

Explored distributional semantics to measure character similarity in dialogue data using TF-IDF and cosine similarity.

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Course Project

Image Classification on FashionMNIST with CNN

Queen Mary University of London October 2024 - December 2024

Built and trained a CNN on FashionMNIST using PyTorch with proper weight initialization, loss analysis, and performance evaluation.

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Course Project

CNN Architecture Search with Genetic Algorithms

Queen Mary University of London November 2024 - December 2024

Used a Genetic Algorithm to evolve optimal CNN architectures for Farsi vowel classification, combining evolutionary computation with deep learning.

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Course Project

London Tube Route Finder with Cost-Aware Search Algorithms

Queen Mary University of London November 2024 - December 2024

Developed a cost-aware path-finding system for London Underground using BFS, DFS, UCS, and zone-based heuristics.

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Course Project

Empirical Demonstration of LLN and CLT on Pareto and Cauchy Distributions

Queen Mary University of London October 2024 - November 2024

Simulated and visualized how LLN and CLT behave under heavy-tailed distributions such as Pareto and Cauchy in Python, contrasted with light-tailed cases.

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Course Project

Distribution Modeling on Financial Time Series with MLE

Queen Mary University of London October 2024 - November 2024

Applied Maximum Likelihood Estimation on Dow Jones daily returns to identify the best-fitting distribution and compared empirical and theoretical PDFs.

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Course Project

Sentiment Analysis from Tweets using SVM

Queen Mary University of London October 2024 – November 2024

Built a sentiment analysis pipeline for tweets using SVM with TF-IDF features, cross-validation, and error analysis.

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Graduation Project

Reality Capture from Multiple Video Cameras

Sabancı University February 2023 – January 2024

Developed a multi-camera reality capture system using YOLO, MIDAS, and photogrammetry techniques for 3D vehicle reconstruction in Intelligent Transportation Systems.

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Internship Project

Time Series Forecasting for Siemens Electrical Product Sales

Siemens Turkey August 2022 – October 2022

Developed a SARIMA-based forecasting solution for Siemens Turkey to predict future sales of electrical products, supporting demand planning and inventory optimisation.

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Course Project

Logic and Digital System Design Projects (FPGA Implementation)

Sabancı University September 2021 - January 2022

Overview This project involved designing and implementing digital systems using Verilog on Xilinx Vivado, deployed to an Artix-7 FPGA board.

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Course Project

Functional Enrichment Analysis of Differentially Expressed Genes (MCF7 – Estradiol)

Sabancı University February 2021 - May 2021

Overview This project focused on identifying the biological pathways and cellular functions affected by estradiol treatment in MCF7 breast cancer cell lines.

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Course Project

Gene Expression Clustering and Visualisation using Machine Learning

Sabancı University March 2021 - May 2021

Overview This project explores how unsupervised machine learning methods can reveal hidden biological patterns in cancer-related gene expression data.

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Course Project

Comparative Genomic Analysis of SARS-CoV-2

Sabancı University February 2021 - March 2021

Overview This project focused on a comparative genomic and proteomic analysis of SARS-CoV-2, aiming to identify conserved genomic regions and mutations in the Spike protein that influence viral infectivity.

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