Talks, work and places

A one-hour AI Connect Istanbul session on production memory systems, retrieval and temporal reasoning.

Online

Invited speaker at the inaugural GDG on Campus Trakya University DevFest.

Edirne, Turkey

Presented the sections I contributed to Türkiye Bilişim Derneği's national AI standards report.

KamuBIB and BIMY, Ankara

Invited speaker at the GDG Gaziantep technology festival, attended by more than 500 registered participants.

Gaziantep, Turkey

A session on LLMs, agent systems and current developments at the Marmara IT Summit.

Marmara University, Istanbul

A recorded conversation with the Hacettepe AI Club about working in AI and generative systems.

Online

A DevTalks conversation at the intersection of data science, AI and digital art.

GDG Kocaeli

A Kodluyoruz interview on the relationship between data science, AI and art.

YouTube

A DevFest Kocaeli talk on building and using semantic image search systems.

Kocaeli, Turkey

The first Teknasyon Tech Meetup of 2024, covering the systems behind generative AI art.

Teknasyon, Istanbul

Invited talk at the 40th National Informatics Congress.

Türkiye Bilişim Derneği, Ankara

A technical session at the ARTLAB Artificial Intelligence Summit.

Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul

A machine-learning session at IEEE CSCON 2022.

Ankara, Turkey

A hands-on data science and machine-learning session for the Bogazici University community.

Bogazici University

A Global AI On Tour session on learning paths, resources and working in data science.

Global AI Community

A practical training session for Hacettepe AI Club's Campus 4.0 programme.

Hacettepe AI Club

A live session with the IEEE Turkey Section Computer Society.

Online

Credited Refik Anadol Studio team member for the large-scale installation at Google's Charleston East campus.

Mountain View, California

Credited studio team member for the AI-driven work created with Lionel Messi and shown at Christie's.

Christie's, New York

Credited studio team member for the installation at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition.

La Biennale di Venezia

Credited studio team member for the audiovisual AI Data Sculpture inaugurating Guggenheim Bilbao's in situ series.

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Credited studio team member for the Bulgari-commissioned installation.

Shanghai, China

Credited studio team member for the permanent AI Data Sculpture at Akbank headquarters.

Sabanci Center, Istanbul

Credited studio team member for the Turkish Airlines collaboration combining travel, biosensing and AI Data Paintings.

Art Basel, Switzerland

Credited studio team member for the 50-million-pixel installation presented at NVIDIA GTC.

San Jose, California

Credited studio team member for Refik Anadol's first major institutional solo exhibition in the UK.

Serpentine North, London

Credited studio team member for Refik Anadol's AI installation in MoMA's Gund Lobby.

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Listed in Mike Loukides's Radar Trends to Watch for October 2026, under AI models.

United States

Turkish and English coverage of local language models running natively on a jailbroken PlayStation 5.

Türkiye

Russian coverage of a language model running on the console itself, with no PC or cloud.

Russia

Selected for the data section of Hacker Newsletter issue 812.

Online

An Apps on Azure blog post on running an Ollaya decision model on Azure Container Apps.

Microsoft Tech Community

Japanese and English coverage of running decision models locally with Ollaya.

Japan

Colombian coverage of agent-led TV cleanup and how to keep the system stable.

Colombia

A feature asking experts how far an AI agent should be trusted with full access to a television.

United States

Coverage of Ollaya running open decision models locally behind a Jev-compatible API.

Online

The launch thread topped the front page with 618 points and 145 comments.

Hacker News

A Russian step-by-step guide built on the public prompt at tv.cobanov.dev.

Russia

The science fiction author shared the list as a fruit-fly brain-hacking hub.

Bluesky

A widely shared explainer pointed readers to the list as the community collection; 130K+ views.

X

An X article on building with the fly connectome recommended the list; 300K+ views.

X

An 82-minute Turkish conversation about the Android TV cleanup project.

YouTube

Vietnamese coverage of a four-year-old television brought back to speed with an AI agent.

Vietnam

Vietnamese technology coverage of the four-year-old television restored with a constrained Claude Code workflow.

Vietnam

A detailed Chinese feature on the project, its supervised automation loop and the public guide.

China

Vietnamese technology coverage of the cleanup and its results.

Vietnam

French coverage examining the cleanup workflow, reversibility and the risks of unguided automation.

France

Japanese coverage presenting the project as an example of agentic coding moving beyond web applications.

Japan

Chilean coverage of the no-root cleanup and the public, reversible four-step guide.

Chile

German coverage of the performance gain from the agent-led cleanup.

Germany

Russian coverage from SecurityLab, republished by Rambler News the same day.

Russia

Russian coverage of the no-root cleanup and the speed it brought back.

Russia

Spanish coverage of speeding up a slow Android TV without root access.

Spain

Mexican coverage of the agent-led performance cleanup.

Mexico

International coverage of the viral X thread and the public tv.cobanov.dev guide.

United States

Spanish coverage of the agent-led ADB cleanup and its no-root safeguards.

Spain

Italian coverage that reproduced the full prompt.

Italy

Czech coverage of the successful no-root debloat.

Czech Republic

French coverage including an independent user who followed the guide and reported a much faster TCL television.

France

French technology coverage discussing the prompt, its restrictions and the need for careful use.

France

French coverage of the reusable prompt and reversible Android TV cleanup process.

France

A case study focused on the prompt's constraints, reversibility and transferable agent-safety patterns.

United States

The original Turkish X post passed 3.7 million views and led to the public guide and international coverage.

X

Listed by the studio as its Lead Data/AI Researcher.

Los Angeles

Contributing author and cover designer for Türkiye Bilişim Derneği's national report.

Türkiye Bilişim Derneği

Credited Refik Anadol Studio team member in Futura Seoul's printed exhibition catalogue.

Futura Seoul, South Korea

An extended interview on NFT systems, security and environmental costs was published in a Marmara University thesis.

Marmara University

Wrote Bilişim Magazine issue 196's feature on generative art and created its AI-generated cover image.

Bilişim Magazine

Published a practical guide to portable deep-learning inference and ONNX Runtime.

Medium

Published a technical introduction progressing from transformer fundamentals to vision architectures.

Medium

Interviewed on language models, reinforcement learning and the emerging uses of conversational AI.

Milliyet

Appeared on Habertürk TV to discuss deepfakes and synthetic media.

Habertürk TV

Moderated the opening webinar for the MEB, TOBB, TOBB ETU and Global AI Hub programme for high-school teachers.

Online

Published a practical learning roadmap for machine learning and data science.

Deep Learning Türkiye

Explained a neural network from first principles with a hand-calculated logic-gate example.

Deep Learning Türkiye

Published a practical guide to image classification with pretrained Keras models.

Deep Learning Türkiye