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Jan 06, 2026 - Jan 13, 2026

Our Alumnus Berkay Yıldırım Presented His Research Paper at The Alan Turing Institute

Berkay Yıldırım, 2018 alumni of the undergraduate Civil Engineering Department at Özyeğin University, was invited as a speaker at the “International Conference on Trustworthy Digital Infrastructure,” hosted by the UK’s national institute for data science and AI, The Alan Turing Institute.At the Royal Institution, he presented his research paper titled “Architecting for Autonomy: A Federated and Explainable AI Blueprint for UK Public Services.” This paper, which proposes a sovereign AI framework for the UK government, has been selected for publication by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).

Berkay Yıldırım currently works as a Software Engineer at MindWalk, a US-based global biotechnology company redefining biologics discovery. Simultaneously, he founded TensorSphere, a London-based consultancy firm. There, he specialises in “Sovereign AI” and trustworthy cloud architectures, delivering scalable and regulation-compliant AI solutions in the UK.

For more information and watch the full presentation: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/by-berkayyildirim_sovereignai-aiarchitecture-federatedlearning-activity-7407352051476615168-Leom