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Ali Guzelyel
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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