Hakan Ceylan

Hakan Ceylan is a seasoned Staff Research Engineer at Netflix since November 2011, bringing extensive expertise in Natural Language Processing and machine learning. Prior experience includes a role as a Technical Yahoo! at Yahoo!, where Hakan contributed to the Infinite Browse project by developing models to extract relevant information from news articles. Academic foundations were established through a PhD in Computer Science from the University of North Texas, focusing on text summarization of long documents, complemented by roles as a Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant at the same institution. Hakan's early internships at Yahoo! and Maxim Integrated Products involved enhancing search engine capabilities and developing software tools, respectively. Educational qualifications include a BS in Computer Engineering from Middle East Technical University and an MS in Computer Science from the University of North Texas.