Zeynep Erbakıcı

I work at the intersection of technology, strategy, and human systems — equally at home in government corridors, research laboratories, and private technology companies. I don't move between these worlds despite my background. I move between them because of it.

My foundation is in social sciences — and that is precisely what makes me useful in technical environments. I ask different questions. I see what purely technical profiles miss: the human logic behind a system, the cultural weight of a decision, the gap between what a product does and what a user actually needs.

My most significant work to date: contributing to DİLNET, a national AI translation infrastructure for Turkish public institutions. I analyzed terminological alignment between standard AI output and official terminology standards, and surfaced findings that directly shaped pipeline decisions — including the integration of the Term Bank for Public Institutions as the authoritative reference, which raised terminological accuracy from 51.5% to 97.9%.

I'm a founding board member of an interdisciplinary research community at Başkent University's Strategy and Technology Research Center, where we bridge academic research and real-world impact across disciplines. I also contribute to AI model evaluation and quality assurance through contractor roles in LLM training pipelines.

What drives me is not a single domain but a way of working. I explore systems until I understand them fully, ask the questions others skip, and stay until the problem is actually solved. I'm most effective in roles that require cross-functional thinking, analytical depth, and the ability to move between technical and strategic contexts without losing either.

Currently based in Ankara, Türkiye. Open to remote collaborations in research, strategy, AI evaluation, and product development.