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General Information
Full Name | Burak Varıcı |
Languages | English, Turkish |
Education
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2024 (expected) Ph.D. Electrical Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Thesis Causal Learning via Interventions Estimation and Design
- Advisor Prof. Ali Tajer
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2020 M.S. Electrical Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute -
2018 B.S. Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Boğaziçi University
Experience
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2018 - 2023 Research Assistant
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Developed identifiability results and algorithms for causal representation learning via interventions
- Designed and analyzed causal bandit algorithms with relaxed assumptions compared to the state-of-the-art
- Developed consistent algorithms to learn from interventional data in both causally sufficient and insufficient systems
- Researched on structure learning of shared subgraphs for multiple undirected graphical models.
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2022 Visiting Research Scholar
MIT-IBM Watson AI LAB - Developed a novel framework for causal discovery from a mixture of models
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2020 AI Horizons Extern
The Rensselaer-IBM AI Research Collaboration - Researched on combining the causal discovery process with generative modeling
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2017 Intern
Speech Enabled Smart Technologies (Istanbul, Turkey) - Built deep learning algorithms for speaker identity verification systems
Honors and Awards
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2023 - NeurIPS Top Reviewer Award
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2023 - UAI Top Reviewer Award
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2022 - Belsky Award for Computational Sciences and Engineering
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2022 - Jerry Dziuba ECSE Graduate Student Service Award
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2020 - The Rensselaer-IBM AI Research Collaboration Fellowship
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2012 - International Balkan Mathematical Olympiad - Silver Medal
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2012 - Turkish National Mathematical Olympiad - Silver Medal
Service
Reviewer | IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, NeurIPS (2021, 2022, 2023), UAI (2023), AAAI (2023), AISTATS (2024) |