Hakan Tugrul Otal PhD Student & Research Assistant University at Albany, SUNY New York, United States Email: hakan.otal@outlook.com Download CV

Research Interests

Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Natural Language Processing, AI Safety, LLM Alignment, Knowledge Graphs, Cybersecurity

Education

University at Albany, SUNY, New York, United States
Ph.D. in Information Science (Data Analytics - Major, Cybersecurity - Minor)
05-2028

University at Albany, SUNY, New York, United States
M.S. in Information Science (Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics)
05-2026

Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
B.S. in Computer Science
06-2023

Skills

• Programming: Python, C/C++, JavaScript/TypeScript
• ML Frameworks: PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn
• Graph Tools: Neo4j, Gephi, NetworkX, PyG
• Data Visualization & Manipulation: Matplotlib, Seaborn, NumPy, Pandas
• Database Systems: MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Neo4j
• Big Data & Cloud: AWS, GCloud, Docker, Elasticsearch, Redis
• LLM Technologies: Huggingface, Ollama, LMStudio, Unsloth, Llama-Factory