Manchester · 2026

Hello, I'm

Berke TUNC

AI Research / Frontier AI · Embodied Intelligence · Neural Interfaces

Pursuing research at the intersection of mathematics, machine learning, and physical intelligence — from frontier model development to embodied AI and brain–computer interfaces.

01
Published research paper · CHAOS 2025, Greece
06+
Technical projects across ML, control & systems
80%
Trajectory-tracking accuracy improvement, Stinger Formula Student
21M
GIS records validated · BASARSOFT pipeline
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About Me

Computer Science & Mathematics undergraduate at the University of Manchester, aiming for AI research at frontier labs and working toward building the next generation of intelligent systems.

I co-authored a research paper on nonlinear time-series forecasting for air pollution using chaos theory and statistical modelling, presented at the CHAOS 2025 International Conference in Greece. The work deepened my expertise in dynamical systems, probability theory, and data-driven analysis.

At Manchester Stinger Motorsports, I develop vision-informed control algorithms for an autonomous Formula Student race car — improving trajectory tracking accuracy by 80% and reducing response latency by 18 ms through data-driven optimisation and telemetry analysis.

During my internship at BASARSOFT, I engineered large-scale data validation pipelines for 21 million geospatial records, improving data integrity across 3 systems by 40%. I also completed an intensive ML, AI & Data Science summer programme at Sabancı University.

My broader interests span embodied AI, neuromorphic and biological computing, and hardware–software co-design — with quantum computing as a long-term horizon. I want to be at the edge of what's possible and help build it.

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Research & Writing

Co-authored · Peer-reviewed

Nonlinear time-series forecasting for air-pollution dynamics — a chaos-theoretic approach

Presented at CHAOS 2025 International Conference, Greece With Engin Kandiran · Yeditepe University · May 2024 — Jun 2025

Modelling system sensitivity and chaotic dynamics across environmental datasets spanning 5 cities and 3 years of observations. Built reproducible Python pipelines covering automated preprocessing, statistical feature extraction, and visualisation across 5 dataset variants — increasing iteration efficiency by 40%.

chaos theorynonlinear dynamicstime-seriesstatistical modellingpythonreproducible research

Why this work

Chaos and learning sit closer than most people think. Both ask how small perturbations propagate through nonlinear systems; both depend on the geometry of high-dimensional trajectories. The paper was an excuse to live inside that question for fifteen months.

"Real systems don't apologise for being nonlinear. The challenge is to model them honestly."

What's next

Pulling these intuitions into representation learning and embodied control — where the dynamics aren't a dataset, they're the agent.

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Experience so far

2025 — Present

Co-founder & CTO

Yapayuzuv · Turkish Legal AI
Remote
Building a mobile-first AI chatbot that answers Turkish legal questions by retrieving real court decisions via YargiMCP and generating grounded answers with Claude API.
Architected the full stack: FastAPI backend, async SQLAlchemy ORM, JWT auth, per-user chat history, and a document viewer for full court rulings.
Developing a cloud-hosted AI assistant for the Turkish legal system powered by vLLM and Gemma 4.
2025 — Present

Control Junior Engineer

Manchester Stinger Motorsports · Formula Student
Manchester, UK
Improved autonomous vehicle tracking accuracy by 80% via ML-informed control and systematic hyperparameter tuning across varied test conditions.
Analysed sensor data from 40+ autonomous test runs to identify controller failure modes and inform redesign.
Streamlined a perception–planning–control stack in ROS, cutting end-to-end inference latency by 18 ms and inter-module overhead by 15%.
May 2024 — Jun 2025

Research — Nonlinear Time-Series

Yeditepe University · w/ Engin Kandiran
İstanbul, TR · Presented at CHAOS 2025, Greece
Co-authored a peer-reviewed paper on chaos theory & nonlinear time-series across 5 cities, 3 years of environmental data.
Built reproducible Python research pipelines — preprocessing, feature extraction, visualisation — raising iteration efficiency by 40%.
Synthesised 20+ academic sources into the paper's methodology and evaluation criteria.
Jul — Aug 2024

Software Engineering Intern

BASARSOFT
İstanbul, TR
Engineered automated validation logic for a 21 M-record GIS dataset, resolving systemic data-quality issues across 3 internal systems.
Reduced error frequency by 40% and shortened the validation feedback loop for downstream teams.
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Selected Projects

Yapayuzuv — Turkish Legal AI

2026 → ongoing

Co-founder & CTO. Mobile-first AI chatbot retrieving real Turkish court decisions via YargiMCP and generating grounded answers with Claude API. JWT auth, per-user history, court document viewer. Cloud assistant powered by vLLM + Gemma 4.

FastAPIClaude APIYargiMCPSQLAlchemyPostgreSQLvLLMGemma 4

ML Stock Trend Predictor

2025 → 2026

End-to-end ML pipeline for financial time-series prediction. Feature engineering on technical indicators, gradient-boosted models, and a custom evaluation framework that surfaces confidence intervals instead of point estimates.

PythonXGBoostAlpaca APIpandas-ta

Stinger Control Stack

2025 → ongoing

ML-informed control algorithms for an autonomous Formula Student car. Hyperparameter sweeps, telemetry analysis from 40+ runs, and a leaner ROS perception–planning–control pipeline — 18 ms faster end-to-end.

ROS2PythonC++control · telemetry

Nonlinear Time Series Air Pollution Forecasting

2024 — 2025

Reproducible Python research pipelines for nonlinear time-series across 5 environmental datasets — automated preprocessing, statistical feature extraction, visualisation. Underpinned the CHAOS 2025 paper.

PythonNumPySciPymatplotlib

Weathify — team project

2025 → 2026

Context-aware retrieval & ranking pipeline for music. Tag-based candidate generation, lightweight ranking on weather / season signals, and a low-latency PostgreSQL schema designed for real-time scoring.

JavaScriptPostgreSQLHTML/CSSretrieval & ranking

Particle Simulator

2026

High-performance 2D physics engine with custom collision detection and resolution algorithms. Real-time kinetic energy transfer, Verlet integration-based physics, and spatial partitioning for O(n log n) collision queries.

C++RaylibVerlet integrationspatial hashing
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Stack & Education

Technical · what I reach for

Languages
Python · C/C++ · SQL · Java · HTML/CSS · R
ML & data
PyTorch · TensorFlow · scikit-learn · XGBoost · pandas · NumPy
Math
probability · optimisation · statistical modelling · dynamical systems
Systems
ROS2 · Docker · Git · Eigen3 · raylib · vLLM
Frameworks
FastAPI · React · Express · Jupyter · Colab
Interests
AI Research · Embodied AI · Neural Interfaces · Hardware–Software Co-design · Quantum (later)

Education

The University of Manchester

BSc (Hons) Computer Science & Mathematics — expected First Class.
Modules: Linear Algebra · Probability · Statistics · Data Science. Research focus on frontier AI and embodied intelligence.

Sep 2025 — Jun 2028 · Manchester, UK

Sabancı University — Summer Programme

Intensive modules in Machine Learning, AI & Data Science.

Jul 2024 · İstanbul, TR

FMV Işık Erenköy High School

International Baccalaureate Diploma · HL: Mathematics Analysis & Approaches, Physics.

2020 — 2025 · İstanbul, TR