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01 Intro

Ali Guzelyel

Studying social networks on affects of online interactions

PhD Student in Computer Science · Chicago, IL

02 Resume

Resume

PhD Student in Computer Science · Chicago, IL

Experience

3

Graduate Research Assistant · Illinois Institute of Technology

Aug 2025 – Present

  • Conducting causal inference and counterfactual analysis on large scale social media user behavior data.
  • Leveraging LLMs to extract user stance and linguistic signals for downstream causal modeling and simulations.

Software Engineer · Airblox, Inc

Jan 2025 – Jul 2025

  • Owned the end-to-end integration process with third-party flight information management systems such as Cargo AI and IBS, leading technical discussions internally and with partners to enable access to flight and cargo data from 100+ airlines globally.
  • Optimized the process using in-context learning with GPT-4o for better timelines, getting faster with each integration.
  • Developed full stack with Spring Boot, Java, React, Typescript, PostgreSQL, Docker, Colima, GitLab, and GPT.

Founder, AI Research Engineer · AI Research Labs

Apr 2024 – Jan 2025

  • Consulted Airblox to integrate Active Campaign, a Sales & CRM tool for managing deals, email notifications, and user tracking.
  • Launched an internship with a cohort of 5 computer science students to work on full-stack development and AI projects.
  • Deployed a platform for curating daily global news using News API, Gemini, Django, and a Linux based AWS-EC2 instance.

Education

3

PhD in Computer Science · Illinois Institute of Technology

2025 – Present

Masters in Artificial Intelligence · Illinois Institute of Technology

2022 – 2023

Bachelors in Computer Science · Illinois Institute of Technology

2019 – 2023

Skills

8
Machine Learning Language Models PyTorch Python Spring Boot React Docker Linux

03 Selected work

Selected projects

  1. 01 Fine-Tuned I/O Trace Synthesis Systems AI 2025
  2. 02 Simple-GPT Generative AI 2024
  3. 03 AWS Streaming Data Pipeline Streaming Data · Cloud AI · AWS SageMaker · AWS Kinesis · AWS Firehose · AWS S3 2023
  4. 04 Distributed Key-Val File Storage System & Benchmarking Distributed Systems · Lxd Containers · Benchmarking 2023
  5. 05 COVID-19 Tweets Analysis Analytical AI · Crowdsourcing · Preprocessing · Feature Engineering · Traditional Model Training 2022

Fine-Tuned I/O Trace Synthesis

2025

Fine-tuned an SLM with LoRA to generate synthetic scientific I/O traces.

Fine-tuned SLMs (Granite 3.3B, Gemma) using Hugging Face and LoRA to generate synthetic DLIO HPC I/O traces, enforcing POSIX grammar constraints and evaluating temporal fidelity, scalability, and failure modes for low-cost workload analysis.

  • Systems AI

Simple-GPT

2024

Reproduced GPT-2 by pre-training on FineWeb-Edu dataset using PyTorch.

Reproduced GPT-2 using PyTorch and pre-trained on FineWeb-Edu dataset (10B tokens) to surpass Hellaswag performance.

  • Generative AI

AWS Streaming Data Pipeline

2023

Automated ML training on a streaming/batch telecom churn data using AWS components.

Implemented an automated ML pipeline based on AWS SageMaker, Kinesis, Firehose, and S3 to collect, compile, and pre-process streaming data and train an ML model that detects potential telecom churn with 10K+ data batches.

  • Streaming Data
  • Cloud AI
  • AWS SageMaker
  • AWS Kinesis
  • AWS Firehose
  • AWS S3

Distributed Key-Val File Storage System & Benchmarking

2023

Architected a distributed file storage system with lxd containerized VMs

Architected a local distributed NFS environment with Ubuntu 22.04 and LXD containerization based VMs to benchmark I/O operations performance for Cassandra and MongoDB. Utilized C, Unix Shell, C++, and Python in the span of the project.

  • Distributed Systems
  • Lxd Containers
  • Benchmarking

COVID-19 Tweets Analysis

2022

End-to-end NLP pipeline categorizing Covid-19 related tweets.

Implemented an end-to-end NLP pipeline in Python to categorize 6K+ COVID related tweets through crowdsourcing, data preprocessing, feature engineering, and model training with Cohen’s kappa, bag-of-words, and SVM.

  • Analytical AI
  • Crowdsourcing
  • Preprocessing
  • Feature Engineering
  • Traditional Model Training

04 Contact

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