Osman Fatih Kilic

ML Engineer Team Lead · Istanbul

About

Machine learning engineer with a decade of experience spanning NLP, distributed systems, and applied AI. Currently leading an ML team building intelligent valuation systems. Background in signal processing research with publications in IEEE venues.

Experience

Just AppraisedML Engineer Team Lead
2026–Present
Just AppraisedSenior ML Engineer II
2025–2026
Just AppraisedSenior ML Engineer
2022–2025
Just AppraisedML Engineer
2021–2022
Yapi Kredi TechnologyJunior ML Engineer
2019–2021
CognitiveScaleML Engineer Intern
2018
UT AustinResearch Assistant
2017–2018
Bilkent UniversityResearch Assistant
2015–2017
Turkish Aerospace (TAI)Industry Co-op
2014–2015

Education

M.S. Electrical Engineering
Bilkent University · 3.57/4.0 · 2015–2017
B.S. Electrical Engineering
Bilkent University · 3.85/4.0 · 2011–2015

Awards

2017Research Fellowship, UT Austin
2016IEEE Best Student Paper Award, SIU Conference
2011–15High Honor Student & Comprehensive Scholarship, Bilkent

Selected Publications

Conversation Management in Task-Oriented Turkish Dialogue Agents with Dialogue Act ClassificationKDIR, 2020
Large Scale Intent Detection in Turkish Short Sentences with Contextual Word EmbeddingsKDIR, 2020
Domain-Independent, Task-Oriented Chatbot Creation and Conversation Policy Management FrameworkWorkshop on Hybrid Intelligence for NLP Tasks, 2020
Near-Optimal Distributed Estimation for a Network of Sensing Units Operating Under Communication ConstraintsCDC, 2018
Team-Optimal Online Estimation of Dynamic Parameters over Distributed NetworksSignal Processing, 2018
Resource-Aware Event Triggered Distributed Estimation Over Adaptive NetworksDigital Signal Processing, 2017
An Efficient Mixture of Experts Method for Big Data ApplicationsICASSP, 2017
Computationally Highly Efficient Mixture of Adaptive FiltersSignal Image and Video Processing, 2016
Adaptive Hierarchical Space Partitioning for Online ClassificationEUSIPCO, 2016
Visual Guidance System for Satellite Rendezvous ApplicationsRAST, 2015

Skills

PythonPyTorchTensorFlowScikit-LearnXGBoostSQLPandasNumPyOpenAI APIHugging FaceLangChainLlamaIndexFAISSPineconeDockerAirflowMLflowAzure AIAWSFastAPIGitCI/CDElasticsearchPostgreSQL

Istanbul, Turkey · 2026