Ethosoft people
Ahmet Rıfat Öztürk
Strategy Lead, AI & Data Engineer · Co-founder
A student researcher and builder working across Turkish language models, document and medical AI, robotics, and open research infrastructure.
Profile
Research with a path to practice.
Ahmet co-founded Ethosoft and leads strategy while engineering AI and data systems. His work combines careful evaluation with practical prototypes, with a particular interest in making Turkish-language and small-model research more reproducible.
He began building research and robotics systems during high school, bringing together language modeling, data engineering, biomedical software, and autonomous navigation. The supplied CV records both research leadership and hands-on implementation: from dataset and tokenizer design to deployment-oriented APIs, evaluation scripts, and hardware-facing systems.
Research
Selected research
- NEDOQwen — first-listed technical lead on an auditable Turkish-centric 824M-parameter language-model diagnosis and repair study, including public model and dataset artifacts.
- Foresight Is Not Enough — first author of a preprint studying future prediction, hard negatives, semantic reranking, and representation-to-behavior calibration.
- Relation LM — tokenizer and routing experiments reporting compact-model efficiency comparisons in the accompanying repository.
- QA-Research-SLM — a Qwen3 adapter for evidence-grounded research QA, source selection, claim verification, uncertainty reporting, and strict JSON output.
- TR-DocVQA-Synth and Mycelium — contributor work spanning synthetic document understanding and counterfactual dependability research.
Applied work
Selected projects
BioDockX
FastAPI and React tooling for protein structure, ligand, and virtual-screening workflows.
TUA Lunar Rover Navigation
3D path planning and reinforcement-learning work for a lunar-rover research continuation.
DataMedX2
Clinical AI orchestration and oncology-focused decision-support prototyping.
VoltranScout
Robotics software and autonomous-system tooling developed through VolTrAN.
Experience
Building teams and systems.
- Ethosoft — Co-founder, strategy lead, and AI/data engineer (2024–present), coordinating research direction, technical delivery, and public artifacts.
- VolTrAN Robotics — Software captain and robotics contributor through summer 2026, with work across autonomous systems and competition engineering.
- Uyumsoft — Contract AI and data contributor (2025).
- Neuronauts — Co-founder and technical contributor (2024–2025).
- Pertevniyal High School — Student researcher, expected graduation 2028; the CV records LGS 478/500 and EnglishScore 458.
Education & recognition
Learning by shipping.
Ahmet's CV lists university-level exposure through ITU applied data-engineering and high-performance-computing activities, alongside continued work on robotics and AI research. It also records first- and second-place hackathon results, including MindBricks, DataMedX2, and the TUA Astro Hackathon, plus jury and finalist recognitions.
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