kaan@portfolio:~$

kaan@portfolio:~$whoami --verbose

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name:R. Kaan Karaman role:Computer Engineering student, 3rd year interests:machine learning, applied research status:● open to fall '26 roles location:Munich, Germany

kaan@portfolio:~$cat about.md

I'm in my third year of Computer Engineering, working mostly on machine learning and applied research.

My time goes to research, a part-time industry job, and writing about whatever I'm trying to figure out.

kaan@portfolio:~$git log --author=kaan --pretty=format:'%ad %s' ~/work/

Summer 2026 Research Intern @Technical University of Munich (TUM)

└─Visiting research intern, working on a project at the chair.

2026 AI Researcher @TÜBİTAK

└─Applied machine learning research with senior researchers.

2025 to 2026 AI Engineer, Working Student @Hagia Labs Pte. Ltd. (Singapore)

└─Built and shipped features as a remote working student.

kaan@portfolio:~$grep -r 'published' ~/papers/ | sort -k3

[2026] From BM25 to Corrective RAG: Benchmarking Retrieval Strategies for Text-and-Table Documents

@ arXiv — Karaman, R. K., et al. · co-author

[2025] Code2Doc: A Quality-First Curated Dataset for Code Documentation

@ arXiv — Karaman, R. K., et al. · first author

[2025] RAG-Driven Data Quality Governance for Enterprise ERP Systems

@ arXiv — Karaman, R. K., et al. · co-author

kaan@portfolio:~$cat ~/awards/*.txt | sort -r

2025 ★Tinker AI Research Grant ($5,000)

├─Thinking Machines Lab

└─Using LLMs to explain drone anomaly detection.

2025 ★TÜBİTAK 2247-C STAR Researcher Fellowship

├─Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye

└─National research funding for generating synthetic histopathology images with machine learning.

kaan@portfolio:~$ls -la ~/projects/

total 2 · drwxr-xr-x kaan staff

2025 pydocs-rag/ Failure-aware RAG over the Python docs, with a proper eval harness. [Python, FAISS, FastAPI, Docker] →2024 cortex/ A small CNN framework in pure NumPy, tested against PyTorch. [Python, NumPy] →

kaan@portfolio:~$tail -n 10 ~/blog/feed.log

Oct 2025 [36 min] › Engineering is dead, long live engineering.Oct 2025 [7 min] › Understanding Latent Space

kaan@portfolio:~$cat contact.yml

email:kaanrkaraman@gmail.com github:https://github.com/kaanrkaraman linkedin:https://linkedin.com/in/kaanrkaraman scholar:https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KxUOqCMAAAAJ

kaan@portfolio:~$tput setaf --list # click a color to apply

# available accents — current: ansi

$ export ACCENT=ansi

kaan@portfolio:~$echo "thanks for stopping by."

thanks for stopping by.

kaan@portfolio:~$