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yidilozdemir/README.md

Welcome to my profile! 👋 This is Idil

Research Software Engineer at UCL's Advanced Research Computing Centre.

Research interests

Prosocial alignment through affective-cognitive architectures, multi-agent reinforcement learning, homeostatic goal grounding, embodied cognition approaches to AI safety.

Selected outputs

  • CHI 2025 — first-author paper on emergent prosocial cooperation in multi-agent RL
  • Built MVP for haptic affective wearable based on in-house patent EP3742265B1 — haptic language design (Sensae ApS)
  • Book chapter — co-authored in Methods in Molecular Biology on Channelrhodopsin protocols

Select Projects as a Research Software Engineer (UCL ARC)

ML & Deep Learning

  • Behavioural cloning & inverse RL on healthcare worker trajectories (JAX/Flax/Optax) — AMR-HUB
  • Deep learning CT-scan analysis pipelines across multinational clusters
  • NLP on multimodal sociology database — CLOSER

Scientific Computing & Simulation

  • C++ GUI development for real-time ultrasound device (developer and project managed) — K-Plan
  • Climate modelling contributions for UK branch of project — EuroCORDEX-UK
  • Agent-based modelling of antimicrobial resistance spread

Infrastructure & Security

  • Kubeflow/GPU benchmarking and deployment
  • Real-time IoT anomaly detection — PETRAS/TAIMAS

Open Research

Earlier: Haptics, Neuroscience & Sensorimotor Research

  • Sensae ApS (early engineer, sole software) — designed haptic language for affective wearables; built physiological data analysis pipelines; developed and maintained system through multiple beta testing rounds
  • UCL Plasticity Lab (PI: Tamar Makin) — built multi-modal fMRI analysis pipeline; co-led multi-center sensorimotor pilot study
  • Amherst College — characterised zebrafish startle reflexes via neural field recordings; co-authored book chapter
  • UMass Computational Memory Lab — automated neuroimaging pipeline for visual cortex mapping (FreeSurfer/bash/MATLAB)

Stack

Python · JAX · PyTorch · C++ · R · MATLAB · Docker · Kubernetes · Kubeflow · Mesa/SolaraViz

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  1. PettingZoo-Haptic-Waterworld PettingZoo-Haptic-Waterworld Public

    Forked from Farama-Foundation/PettingZoo

    Extension of Farama-Foundation/PettingZoo for modulation of agent parameters through social contact in cooperative resource sharing scenarios

    Jupyter Notebook

  2. UCL-ARC/python-tooling UCL-ARC/python-tooling Public

    Python package template for new research software projects

    Python 62 9

  3. LLM-goal-auditing LLM-goal-auditing Public

    Phase 1 of project Homeostatic Goal Grounding for Trustworthy LLM Agents, involving goal injection and auditing

    Python

  4. UCL-ARC/amr-hub UCL-ARC/amr-hub Public

    An Agent-based model to simulate the spread of infectious anti-microbial resistant diseases

    Python 1

  5. SciKit-Surgery/scikit-surgery-stats SciKit-Surgery/scikit-surgery-stats Public

    Scripts to get statistics on the scikit-surgery libraries.

    HTML 2 2

  6. MediSyncBox/Azure_node MediSyncBox/Azure_node Public

    JavaScript