About Me

About Emre Sevinç:

Currently working as a Data & Reporting Architect at ArcelorMittal, Belgium.

Previously: I was responsible for the overall technology strategy, innovation, consultancy and business development for our small and specialized consultancy company I founded with my partners. I served clients in Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands by co-innovating with them, starting from the initial data strategy for data-driven business value creation, up to the final, pragmatic technology implementation based on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Data Science techniques enabled by Big Data Engineering platforms running on flexible cloud systems.

Before that, I worked as the first Data Officer at Atlas Copco in Belgium; on the data strategy initiatives and projects, utilizing Agile project management, functional analysis, business process analysis, data modeling, data management, industrial IoT systems, Data Lake analytics, machine learning, and cloud computing.

I’m comfortable communicating at the CxO level, as well as at the technical level with software & data engineers, architects, researchers, and data scientists in a globally distributed setting. With 25 years of experience, and having worked as a data officer, solution architect, data architect, data engineer, project/team lead, and software engineer in different countries, my projects & domains ranged from manufacturing, object storage technology development, ERP systems, to e-learning, computer assisted language teaching, space industry, medical informatics, telecom systems, and media.

With respect to technology, my recent work utilized Microsoft Azure, Databricks, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon Mechanical Turk, distributed NoSQL solutions such as Cassandra, petabyte-scale S3-compatible object storage systems such as HGST Active Archive (acquired by Western Digital), Big Data technologies such as Hadoop, and Natural Language Processing & Semantic Web data pipelines and knowledge graph databases in Spark, using Java, Python and Scala.

My formal academic background is in mathematics, engineering, and cognitive science. For a selection of my peer-reviewed scientific papers, conference proceedings, and industry awards, see below.

For more information:

• LinkedIn | Twitter | SlideShare
• GitHub | Ubuntu Launchpad | SourceForge
• Google Scholar | ResearchGate
• StackOverflow | Quora
• Goodreads | LibraryThing
• Wikipedia | Keybase
• SoundCloud | YouTube
• ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor): 0000-0002-6083-4483 

Also:

• Co-producer of a quantum physics history & technology podcast (in Turkish) with Dr. Mustafa Gündoğan:
  • https://soundcloud.com/kuantumcartcurt
  • https://kuantumcartcurt.wordpress.com/
• Featured guest speaker in the following podcast (September, 2023):
  • “Masterclass AI Talk“: I was invited by Money Matrix organization to an exciting talk on Artificial Intelligence (AI). I discussed with Yannick Lefever the opportunities and risks of modern AI systems, and how they pertain to our professional and personal lives.
• Featured guest speaker in the following podcast (July, 2021):
  • Emre Sevinç x AI today: the good, the bad, and the ugly @ Lazy People Podcast: for a deep-dive into the vast ocean that is Artificial Intelligence. Modern AI is amazing and improves our lives, but why does it fail in what sometimes appear to be the simplest of tasks? Also available at: https://lazypeople.dev/podcast/index.php?name=2021-07-02-s01e30.mp3
• Featured guest speaker in the following technology podcasts on Data Science & Engineering, Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence and Programming Languages (in Turkish):
  • Developer Kahvesi – Programlama Dilleri Üzerine (15-Jun-2022)
  • Buluta Doğru | 3. bölüm | Yapay Zekâ (also available on YouTube, 13-Jul, 2020)
  • Developer Kahvesi: Emre Sevinç ile Veri Mühendisliği ve Veri Bilimi (2-Dec-2019)
• Parenthood blog at Father in a Strange Land.

Journal Articles, Conference Proceedings, Papers Klaï, S., Sevinç, E., Jacobs, C., Fontaine, B., Muller, C., Moreau, D., “CUBIST: Implementation and Evaluation of a Semantic Business Intelligence System for Payload Operations“, 13th International Conference on Space Operations (SpaceOps 2014), Pasadena, California, USA, 5-9 May 2014 Klaï, S., Sevinç, E., Fontaine, B., Jacobs, C., Muller, C., “CUBIST: Semantic Business Intelligence Supporting Payload Operations“, The 12th International Conference on Space Operations (SpaceOps 2012), Stockholm, Sweden, 2012 Güçlü, B., Sevinç, E., Canbeyli, R., “Duration Discrimination by Musicians and Nonmusicians“, Psychological Reports: Volume 108, Issue 3, pp. 675-687, 2011 Colpaert, J., Sevinç, E., “Design and Development of a Data-Driven Framework for Research-Based Production of Online Language Courseware Applications”, EUROCALL 2010, Bordeaux, France, 2010. Sevinç, E., Başar, R. E., Puhaloğlu, B., “Common Lisp for a Common Cultural Recommendation System, Creating a Cultural Recommendation & Exploration Engine Using Semantic Web”, Proceedings of the 2009 International Lisp Conference, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, p. 179-182, 2009 Meral, H.M., Sevinç, E., Sankur, B., Özsoy, S., Güngör, T., “Natural language watermarking via morphosyntactic alterations“, Computer Speech & Language, Vol. 23-1, p. 107-125, 2009 Meral, H.M., Sevinç, E., Ünkar, E., Sankur, B., Özsoy, S., Güngör, T., “Syntactic Tools for Text Watermarking”, Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents IX (EI120) San Jose, California, USA, 2007 Meral, H.M., Sevinç, E., Ünkar, E., Sankur, B., Özsoy, S., Güngör, T., “Natural Language Watermarking”, Signal Processing and Applications Symposium, Eskişehir, Turkey, 2007 Sevinç, E., Er, M., “Know-where: A Radical Approach to E-learning in 21st Century”, 2. International Open and Distance Learning (IODL) Symposium, Eskişehir, Turkey, 2006 Sevinç, E., Hindistan, K. Puhaloğlu, B., Tuna, A., Tunalıoğlu, V.S., “Computers for Kids: More Than a Simple Recycling Operation”, Towards Open Source Software Adoption OSS 2006 tOSSad Workshop Proceedings, Como, Italy, 2006 Bowers, R.I., Sevinç, E., “Preserving Variability in Sexual Multi-agent Systems with Diploidy and Dominance”, Engineering Societies in the Agents World VI, 6th International Workshop, ESAW 2005, Kuşadası, Turkey, 2005 Sevinç, E., “Quining the Mind: Is “Mind” Out of the Reach of Algorithms?“, İstanbul, Turkey, May, 2005Sevinç, E., Gündüz, H.C., “eMBA: A Successful System in Internet Based Higher Education”, Technologies in Science and Education Conference, Baku, Azerbaijan, 2004 Linux Journal Articles How Fast Can You Type? Develop a Tiny Utility in Bash to Find Out Structure Synth: Turn Your Linux Box Into an Abstract Art Machine with a Powerful Tool Grabbing Your Music from YouTube: Do It Your Way Awards Best use-case award for ClozeFox at Mozilla Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge, 2010. The Firefox add-on I developed for the challenge was awarded in March, 2010 at Austin, Texas.

Moreover, I used to contribute to one of the first jazz web portals in Turkey, back in 2000s: cazci.com, now defunct, originated in Istanbul Technical University jazz club and was set up by my aerospace-engineer-turned-musician brother Ergin Sevinç (see also https://erginmono.wordpress.com). Thanks to his strong GNU/Linux, MySQL, Apache and PHP skills, we’ve built the database, web back-end & front-end (that served the community pretty well for many years, until we switched to WordPress), and then organized a team of jazz enthusiasts for content creation. I’ve mainly contributed by writing album & concert reviews, introductory articles, as well as organizing, conducting & transcribing interviews with jazz musicians, proofreading and editing articles, and occasional PHP and Linux development for the infrastructure. Some historical artifacts from those good old days are available at:

• cazci.com in 2002 | 2005 | 2013

I also co-produced & co-presented the live TV show “FazlaMesai.net” on Teknoloji Televizyonu (Technology Channel) for ~1 year with my colleagues Kıvılcım and Boran back in 2005 in Turkey. The unique content of this hourly television program ranged from spirited discussions on hot technology trends, programming languages, and open source & free software news, as well as lesser known topics on all sorts of software hacking. The show was broadcast to Turkey, Europe and USA, eliciting a lot of reactions and comments from Turkish-speaking nerds & geeks from all over the world. Some of the content and discussions can be seen on the eponymous fazlamesai.net. You can find an old snapshot of the show’s web site (captured by Wayback Machine) and a sample episode on YouTube:

• FazlaMesai.net on Technology Channel in 2005 (Wayback Machine, Web Archive Snapshot)
• FazlaMesai.Net Episode on YouTube | 2005 | Teknoloji TV | Istanbul

From 2007 to 2009, I set up another blog in Turkish, with my colleague Memduh, and wrote articles on distance learning, e-learning, etc. It is still online, but hasn’t been updated since June, 2009:

• E-learning | Uzaktan eğitim konusunda uzmanlardan görüşler, yorumlar ve haberler