PhD in Petroleum Engineering — Texas Tech University
Research focus:
- Time series forecasting of oil & gas production (LSTM, Bi-LSTM, etc.)
Computer Vision research (1.5 years):
- Object detection, semantic & instance segmentation, and tracking
- Models: Faster R-CNN, Mask R-CNN, Vision Transformers
General interest:
- Artificial Intelligence and Mathematical Modeling applied to real-world problems across different domains
- Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) basics
- Building simple AI agents and chatbot systems
- Practical NLP for working with text data
- Generative AI / LLM applications (RAG systems, AI assistants, knowledge tools)
- Computer vision (detection, segmentation, tracking, visual understanding)
- Applied ML systems involving physics-informed neural networks (PINNs), optimization methods, and inverse problems
- Email: mrkocoglu@yahoo.com
I enjoy tackling challenging problems—whether in AI/modeling or in games like Dark Souls and Sekiro. I also speak 4 languages: Turkish, English, Russian, and Turkmen.