MSc student at Manisa Celal Bayar University. Specialising in AI systems, data-driven decision-making and sustainable engineering design. Every project starts with one question: "How does this genuinely help people?"
Award-winning work across AI, sustainability, and social impact.
Team Captain at NASA Space Apps Challenge Adana. Satellite data + ML to map microplastic impact. Addresses SDG 5 & 13. Selected for YTÜ Startup House Pre-Incubation.
Bias-free AI recruitment tool addressing SDG 10. GDPR & KVKK compliant with skills-based candidate selection and document verification. Won 1st place at Aygaz-LEARNECO.
AI-powered travel healthcare platform. Won 1st place (Eczacıbaşı, Reactor School, Başlangıç Noktası), earning an international internship in Southeast Asia.
Published at the 9th International AI & Data Processing Symposium. Multimodal framework combining deepfake detection with NLP-based Terms of Service risk analysis. Presented in Türkiye & Seoul.
Paediatric amblyopia treatment through gamified smart glasses. AI eye tracking + environmental education, eliminating 2 kg plastic waste per child. Built as a PWA with Three.js & WebGazer.js.
AI-powered mental health support platform combining empathetic conversation design with evidence-based psychological frameworks. 3rd place at Microsoft Women Hackathon 2025.
AI-driven sustainability initiative for carbon footprint reduction and energy optimisation. Predicts energy savings through behavioural interventions. Top 20 finalist globally.
TÜBİTAK-funded BI + Six Sigma integration for SME resilience after the 6 February earthquakes. Management dashboard improving crisis response and productivity.
Converts spoken Turkish into Turkish Sign Language in real time, fully offline. A three-layer system combining audio, text, and rules detects emotional tone to make translation more natural. Built after analysing 596 user reviews across four existing TİD apps to understand why people do not use them. Currently at ~78% accuracy, aimed at Turkey's 3.6M deaf and hard-of-hearing community.
Building solutions across enterprise, research, and social impact sectors.
Running SDG awareness campaigns and contributing to community communications and advocacy activities aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals.
Contributed to business analysis processes in fintech; supported data-driven decision-making, process optimisation, and technology project management.
Selected for a prestigious leadership and entrepreneurship fellowship; contributing to interdisciplinary project development and innovation processes.
Developed enterprise AI solutions with an international team. Built an Azure OpenAI-powered multilingual chatbot with voice interaction and semantic search. Created a Chrome extension and Puppeteer-based data harvesting system processing 124+ JSON training files. Focus on LLMs, AI Agents, and Prompt Engineering.
Selected for a global sustainability fellowship. Attended the European Regional Summit in Istanbul with 120 fellows from 27 countries. Participated in Innovation Hives workshops to develop 2035 sustainability visions.
Selected for DSI's Andromeda Research Program 2025. Researched AI-driven object avoidance and trajectory planning for Martian rovers under environmental and computational constraints. Theme: Space Transportation Systems.
Founded and led the IBM Z Student Club at MCBU. Achieved Superstar and ACE Tiers. Led community activities on DevOps, mainframe technologies and IBM Z Academy events. Managed GitHub Actions workflows and CI/CD automation pipelines in IBM Z and Linux environments.
Awarded 1st place for Best Production Internship Report 2023–2024 at MCBU Industrial Engineering. Conducted quality control analyses, statistical error analyses on production lines, and produced efficiency improvement reports.
Worked in the newly established PMO department on big data management and operational efficiency analyses. Enhanced process optimisation through data-driven insights.
Managed GitHub repositories and technical content for sustainable tourism development under SDG 8 & 9. Enhanced digital content and maintained open-source projects.
Funded research on Business Intelligence and Six Sigma integration for SME resilience following the 6 February earthquakes.

NASA Space Apps Challenge · 2024
Microsoft Women in Technology Leaders · 2024
Microsoft Women in AI Hackathon · 2025

Cross-Border Innovate · Eczacıbaşı

Aygaz-LEARNECO Programme
Aygaz-LEARNECO Programme

UiPath Agentic Global Bootcamp · 2025

IBM Z Student Ambassador · 2024

MCBU Industrial Engineering · 2024

JTI Make It Bright Competition

Amazon Web Services & Udacity · 2024
TÜBİTAK Research Fund · 2023

NASA Space Apps Challenge · 2024
Microsoft Women in Technology Leaders · 2024
Microsoft Women in AI Hackathon · 2025

Cross-Border Innovate · Eczacıbaşı

Aygaz-LEARNECO Programme
Aygaz-LEARNECO Programme

UiPath Agentic Global Bootcamp · 2025

IBM Z Student Ambassador · 2024

MCBU Industrial Engineering · 2024

JTI Make It Bright Competition

Amazon Web Services & Udacity · 2024
TÜBİTAK Research Fund · 2023
Graduate research in AI systems, data-driven decision-making and sustainable engineering design.
Quality Ambassador 2024–2026, representing the Industrial Engineering Department and Faculty of Engineering.
Strategy, leadership, and venture development. Building, managing, and scaling a successful business.
Sciences, English, German.
Ülkü, D., & Emek, S. (2025). Deepfake Detection and ToS Risk Analysis Using NLP: A Multimodal Framework. In Proceedings of the 9th International Artificial Intelligence and Data Processing Symposium (IDAP'25), Malatya, Türkiye & Seoul, Republic of Korea, September 6–7, 2025.
Open to collaborations, research opportunities, and conversations about AI, sustainability, and impact-driven engineering.