Alumni

Biyue Kong is currently a PhD student in the Department of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies at the University of Tokyo and has worked as a doctoral researcher in the NONWESTLIT project for two years. Her research interests include East Asian supernatural fictions and visual arts, women’s writing and photography. Her current project is a feminist comparative cultural study that examines the artistic and social activities of Japanese women photographers in the 20th century.

Devrim Çavuşoğlu is currently a grad student at METU CS pursuing his MS degree focusing on deep learning. He has experience in industrial projects utilizing deep learning in real life applications mostly in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Models (LLMs) and Computer Vision (CV) fields. His research and thesis direction is about a new architectural proposals for efficient modeling of natural languages by LLMs and also about tokenization and vocabularies of LLMs. His contribution to the NONWESTLIT project was in the language modeling, preparing experimental set up, conducting baseline experiments. His primary interests are efficient neural network architectures, representation learning and objective functions.