Funded Projects
Developing an Edited Volume and Online Resources for Programming Pedagogy Across Disciplines
PTAS funded project, January 2025 - 2026Fostering Student-Staff collaboration for Generative AI literacy toolkit
Student Experience Grant project, January-December 2025LLMs for Data Science: Are they ready for Data science?
GAIL seed funded project, January-July 2025GAIL: Generative Creative Visions initiative seed funding
GAIL seed fund-interdisciplinary project, March-July 2025
SoR / SwDS Dissertation Projects
Understanding factors of Dementia in depth: Explainable AI (XAI) approach
Supervising Kezheng Wang, SoR MSc Thesis, Summer 2024Wavelet based copula approach for modeling market risk: Turkey ISE-100 Case Study
Supervising Xin Wang, SoR MSc Thesis, Summer 2024Understanding the product performance of Fouling Control Coatings
SwDS MSc Thesis with groups - External: AkzoNobel, Summer 2023Evaluating Students Attitudes towards Statistics
Supervising Shuyu Liu, SoR MSc Thesis, Summer 2022
UG Final Year Projects
Clustering Dementia Characteristics Using Vine Copula Mixture Models
Supervising Mellow Chen, 2024-2025Machine Learning Meets Hospitality: Explainable AI in Hotel Booking Cancellations
Supervising Reuben Forman, Jiajun Li and Yuhang Zheng 2024-2025Experimenting on Portfolio Allocations: Turkey ISE100 Financial Market
Supervising Duru Kilkisli (individual), Niall Baxter, Mark Corray and Yuxuan Qian (group), UG group project, 2024-2025Turkey Stock market Dependencies: Study based on wavelet-vine copula approach
Supervising Tim Xu, Huari Yang and Maiyue Xu, UG group project, 2023-2024Starting journey for Explainable and Responsible Artificial Intelligence: Experiments on Insurance Data
Supervising Richard Huang and Callum Purcell, UG group project, 2023-2024Nonparametric copula based drought analysis
Supervising Hongyi Lu, UG project, 2022-2023
Others
Exploiting clustering with vine copulas to examine the Scottish Multiple Deprivation Index 2020 (SIMD-2020)
MIORPA (Mathematical Institute’s Online Research Projects with Africa), July-September 2025Text2Text and Text2Image Landscape
Turkish Mathematics Assocation - Direct Reading Program with Yagmur Seda Sankutlu, July-August 2024Evidence of Turkish Stock Market movements during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Wavelet-Vine-GARCH method
University of Edinburgh - Vacation Scholarship with Stefano Lema, Summer 2024Understanding LLMs and GenAI
Turkish Mathematics Assocation - Direct Reading Program with Emre Anıl Oguz, July-August 2023Application of Algorithmic Trading in Portfolio Optimization
University of Edinburgh - Vacation Scholarship with Rishabh Ramruttun, Summer 2023