hi,
i’m efe.efe.

For twelve years I attended a Science and Art Center (BİLSEM), a public supplementary education programme in Türkiye for students identified with special abilities.

In 2019, while I was in high school, I took part in an Erasmus+ exchange in Spain. It showed me very directly that people build and live lives quite different from the one I knew. That has stayed with me.

During my first year at university I joined the HUROVER rover project through a student community. It was my first chance to work around a physical system, and to see how software, electronics and mechanical constraints all have to meet in the same place.

An embedded systems internship at Lentatek Uzay Havacılık ve Teknoloji A.Ş. later introduced me to the pace and pressure of the defence industry. I found that I liked working somewhere reliability matters, decisions carry weight, and the work has to survive beyond a demonstration. It also moved embedded systems much closer to the centre of what I want to do.

For my graduation project I worked on MuChem, a multimodal chemical AI system that brings together different ways of representing a molecule: SMILES, textual information, molecular images and 3D structural data. The project looks at how those modalities can be represented together to support cross-modal search, retrieval and exploration, rather than treating each form of chemical information on its own.

I also develop Vibe Council, an open-source project that is still changing. It began as a way to make AI-assisted work more practical for personal use, for the cases where a single answer is not enough and several perspectives, reviews or decisions have to be organised into a workflow you can actually use.