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–PresentJust AppraisedSenior ML Engineer II
2025–2026Just AppraisedSenior ML Engineer
2022–2025Just AppraisedML Engineer
2021–2022Yapi Kredi TechnologyJunior ML Engineer
2019–2021CognitiveScaleML Engineer Intern
2018UT AustinResearch Assistant
2017–2018Bilkent UniversityResearch Assistant
2015–2017Turkish Aerospace (TAI)Industry Co-op
2014–2015Education
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 Classification — KDIR, 2020
Large Scale Intent Detection in Turkish Short Sentences with Contextual Word Embeddings — KDIR, 2020
Domain-Independent, Task-Oriented Chatbot Creation and Conversation Policy Management Framework — Workshop on Hybrid Intelligence for NLP Tasks, 2020
Near-Optimal Distributed Estimation for a Network of Sensing Units Operating Under Communication Constraints — CDC, 2018
Team-Optimal Online Estimation of Dynamic Parameters over Distributed Networks — Signal Processing, 2018
Resource-Aware Event Triggered Distributed Estimation Over Adaptive Networks — Digital Signal Processing, 2017
An Efficient Mixture of Experts Method for Big Data Applications — ICASSP, 2017
Computationally Highly Efficient Mixture of Adaptive Filters — Signal Image and Video Processing, 2016
Adaptive Hierarchical Space Partitioning for Online Classification — EUSIPCO, 2016
Visual Guidance System for Satellite Rendezvous Applications — RAST, 2015
Skills
PythonPyTorchTensorFlowScikit-LearnXGBoostSQLPandasNumPyOpenAI APIHugging FaceLangChainLlamaIndexFAISSPineconeDockerAirflowMLflowAzure AIAWSFastAPIGitCI/CDElasticsearchPostgreSQL