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 can build and inhabit lives very different from the one I knew, and that realisation has stayed with me.

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

Later, an embedded systems internship at Lentatek Uzay Havacılık ve Teknoloji A.Ş. introduced me to the pace and pressure of the defence industry. It showed me that I could enjoy environments where reliability matters, decisions carry weight and the work has to survive beyond a demonstration. It also pulled embedded systems much closer to the centre of what I want to work on.

For my graduation project, I worked on MuChem, a multimodal chemical AI system that brings together different ways of representing a molecule. These include SMILES, textual information, molecular images and 3D structural data. The project explores how these different modalities can be represented together to support cross-modal search, retrieval and exploration instead of treating each form of chemical information in isolation.

I also develop Vibe Council, an open-source project that is still evolving. It began as a way to make AI-assisted work more practical for personal use, particularly when a single answer is not enough and different perspectives, reviews or decisions need to be organised into a usable workflow.