Özkan Demir

Research and Teaching Assistant

University of Illinois at Chicago•  January 2019 - July 2024•  Chicago, Illinois

Performed independent research to solve interesting math problems creatively. Worked on three separate projects that generalize previous results in the literature. Taught Pre-Calculus, Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Equations to classes of 22 students. Explained the concepts in an engaging way according to the needs of non-math majors.

Summer Data Scientist

Procter & Gamble•  May 2023 - August 2023•  Remote

Designed and integrated a data model for storing predictions of the Object Detection model. Visualized and analyzed the incoming data, engineered features, trained an ML model which allowed the automated monitoring of the data quality, using SQL and Python. Developed an algorithm that chooses the best pre-trained text classification model using a limited dataset. Reported the progress through Jira and weekly meetings, documented and presented the results.

Machine Learning Engineer Intern

Procter & Gamble Smart Lab•  June 2021 - August 2021•  Remote

Labelled the data and built an Object Detection model using Python, achieving 99% f1 score on test data. Analyzed the quality of the prediction results, identified the mispredictions and categorized them. Identified 12 potential improvements on how to collect the data to improve model accuracy. Communicated these 12 improvements, and they are accepted to be used as guidelines for future data collection.