Tugay Bilgis

I'm a Software Development Engineer at Amazon (AWS S3) in Seattle.

I obtained my bachelor's degree in Computer Science & Mathematics from University of Arizona, where I was first introduced to NLP and was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Steven Bethard, Prof. Eduardo Blanco, and Prof. Saumya Debray. I was part of the CLU Lab.

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Research

My long-term research interests are:

  • Long-Context Modeling: Developing architectures and algorithms to improve reasoning over long sequences, focusing on structured and hierarchical information representation, with applications in conversational AI and code generation.
  • Automating Scientific Discovery: Exploring AI systems that combine causal reasoning with structured world models to form hypotheses, design experiments, and build cumulative scientific knowledge.
  • Interpretability and Evaluation: Creating frameworks to analyze and improve how language models process information, ensuring reliability, consistency, and adaptability to new tasks.

Publications
Tackling Clickbait with Seq2Seq Models
Tugay Bilgis, Nimet Beyza Bozdag, Steven Bethard
SemEval workshop at ACL, 2023

Multilingual Tweet Intimacy Analysis with XLM-T
Nimet Beyza Bozdag, Tugay Bilgis, Steven Bethard
SemEval workshop at ACL, 2023

Revisiting Medical Concept Normalization: A Comparative Analysis Of Transformer-Based Models And Search Engine Approaches
Tugay Bilgis
Undergraduate Thesis, 2024

Teaching

I was a teaching assistant for the following courses at the University of Arizona:

  • CSC 380: Principles of Data Science (Spring'23, Spring'24)
  • CSC 144: Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science I (Spring'22, Fall'23)
  • CSC 120: Intro to Computer Programming II (Fall'21)

Personal

I love playing and watching soccer and I'm a huge Galatasaray fan.

I enjoy running, hiking in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, and playing online chess occasionally.


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