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Oktay Samur

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Industrial AI engineer at TÜPRAŞ scaling digital twins across 3 refineries and developing LLM root-cause agents.

Turkey

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At TÜPRAŞ, I architect and provide technical leadership for an equipment digital twin platform that forecasts equipment behavior and detects anomalies. It runs on 9 assets across 3 refineries and has flagged developing faults 8 hours ahead of alarms.

I scaled catalyst monitoring from a pilot to 20+ units across 3 refineries, giving process engineering teams forecasts and dashboards to plan turnarounds earlier. I also built a closed-loop MLOps framework for product-quality soft sensors, with drift monitoring, automated retraining, and versioned rollback.

I'm currently designing an LLM agent that retrieves evidence from equipment manuals and live process data, then drafts source-cited root-cause hypotheses and recommended actions for operator approval. Earlier at TÜPRAŞ, I delivered 8+ AI and data projects and developed a maintenance scheduling solution that cut planning time by 90%.

My earlier work included back-end services for YouEtix / Passaparola and digital twin, NLP, and computer vision projects at Ind Software. I've also co-authored peer-reviewed work published by Springer, SciTePress, and MDPI, and contributed to EU-funded R&D.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Data Engineering Senior Researcher

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Tüpraş

Apr 2026 - Present (7 months)

Architect and technical lead of a GRU/LSTM-based equipment digital twin platform for short-horizon forecasting and residual-based anomaly detection, live on 9 assets across 3 refineries. Designing an LLM agent for automated root-cause analysis and scaling catalyst performance monitoring to 20+ units.

GRU LSTM Digital Twin Anomaly Detection LLM Agents MLOps Drift Monitoring Python PyTorch TensorFlow Keras Dataiku Docker Kubernetes

Data Engineering Researcher

Tüpraş

Aug 2023 - Apr 2026 (2 years 8 months)

Delivered 8+ chemometrics, data science and AI projects on Dataiku DSS, including soft sensors and wastewater quality forecasting. Designed and deployed optimization solutions in Python and Gurobi on Docker/Kubernetes, and served as Scrum Master for a process safety digitalization team.

Dataiku Python Gurobi Docker Kubernetes Optimization Scrum Data Science Soft Sensors Forecasting

Back-end Developer

YouEtix / Passaparola

Mar 2023 - Jul 2023 (4 months)

Built registration, community-reward and wallet back-end services using Django, MySQL and Docker on Oracle Cloud, and integrated Hyperledger Fabric for permissioned blockchain auditing.

Django MySQL Docker Oracle Cloud Hyperledger Fabric Blockchain Backend Development

R&D Engineer

Ind Software

Feb 2021 - Mar 2023 (2 years 1 month)

Delivered digital twin, NLP and computer vision solutions within ITEA and TÜBİTAK programs, and co-wrote funding proposals. Shipped an NLP recommendation engine to production and built a drone-based urban inspection system.