3 BS Alumni

Naz (CS) worked in Microsoft as a trainee when she was a sophomore. During this tenure, she regularly contributed to young children in teaching computer programming and promotional activities. During her internship at Vodafone, she worked in Data Science R&D and Business Intelligence IT departments. She got 3 patents and she had the opportunity to be the "first author" in all these patents. In her last year, she was elected to represent Özyeğin University's Faculty of Engineering in the Müdek accreditation committee.

After graduating from Özyeğin University, she did her Master's in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Leuven in Belgium. She completed this advanced master's program as an honor student in 1 year. She worked as a data scientist at Amazon Netherlands for 4 years. In this process, she provided consultancy to many companies in the Fortune 400 list in the field of artificial intelligence. She took part in the project that added artificial intelligence to the races of Formula 1. Finally, she started to work in Google, Netherlands. She is currently working at Google as a Machine Learning Specialist Engineer.

Ecem (IE) earned her undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering with a minor in Computer Science at Özyeğin University. Throughout her undergraduate studies, she served as a teaching assistant in various courses, enhancing her academic knowledge, and took on roles in numerous events. She also gained business experience through internships at companies such as Marks&Spencer, Credit Europe Bank Romania, Bosch, and Kariyer.net. She participated in innovative idea development workshops held in Turkey and the Netherlands.

Ecem also completed her master's degree at Özyeğin University, where she made significant contributions to international and interdisciplinary research projects. She had the opportunity to present her research at international conferences and took part in organizing committees. She continued her role as a teaching assistant in various courses. Due to her outstanding performance, she was awarded the Best Teaching Assistant in 2022 and the Outstanding Research Assistant in 2023. Additionally, her undergraduate and graduate studies were supported by scholarships from the Istanbul Chamber of Industry Foundation and TÜBİTAK BIDEB.

Ecem is currently pursuing her PhD in Technology and Operations Management at INSEAD, one of the world's top business schools. She is focusing on areas such as humanitarian logistics, sustainable operations, and healthcare systems, expanding her interests and continuing her research in these fields.

Yıldıray Yılmaz (CE), received his bachelor’s degree at Özyeğin University with a high-honor certificate in the civil engineering department. He is awarded as being the highest ranked student among 2020 graduation class. During his undergraduate studies, he founded Özyeğin University’s Construction Club and ran as president for two years. The construction club has reached more than 200 members during his presidency and organized more than 20 different events.

His original research paper was published with the great help of Dr. Seyis at ‘Building and Environment’ journal under the title of ‘Mapping the scientific research of the life cycle assessment in the construction industry: A scientometric analysis’.

Parallel with his master studies, he joined Metsims Sustainability Consulting company in October 2021. For over a year, he works as a sustainability consultant. His primary task is to analyze and model the environmental burdens of construction products and building from life cycle perspective. So far, he has modelled and assessed the environmental impacts of 20+ different construction products and one residential and one factory building. Besides environmental performance modelling, he currently works on improving one of the biggest life cycle assessment database for construction products in the world.