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Sidar Aslanoglu
Technology policy, built and evaluated by hand.
Open to full-time roles in AI policy, international security and political risk.
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01 / WRITING
Writing
Securing US Leadership in AI & Quantum A policy memo to the NSC and OSTP: applies a national technology-strategy framework to US competition with China in AI and quantum, benchmarks against the EU/UK and Israel, and recommends a course.
TECH POLICY MEMO PDF · 0.2 MB
Northern Sea Route: Russian Crude to China Projects how much of Russia's China-bound crude oil will route through the Arctic Northern Sea Route by 2035, as sanctions and receding ice reshape the seaborne trade.
ENERGY SECURITY PDF · 0.2 MB
Pivot to Asia: Does the Budget Follow? Tests whether Washington's 'pacing challenge' rhetoric on China actually shows up in the defense budget, or whether spending has not tilted toward the Navy and Air Force over the Army.
DEFENSE ECONOMICS PDF · 0.3 MB
Türkiye: A Crackdown Paving the Way for a Compromised Election Political-risk brief written three weeks after the arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu: what it signals about the 2028 presidential race, the judiciary, the lira, the muted EU and US reaction, and who the opposition runs instead.
POLITICAL RISK PDF · 0.1 MB
Net Assessment: The US-China Maritime Balance in the Arctic, 2015-2035 A net assessment memo for senior Pentagon leadership: how the US Navy and the PLA Navy compare on access, sustainment, surveillance and deterrence in the Arctic Circle, with NATO Allies and Russia as secondary actors and receding ice as the changing environment.
NET ASSESSMENT PDF · 0.3 MB
02 / ANALYSIS
Selected analysis
PRC OTH-B Radar Coverage vs. US Naval Posture Geospatial analysis of a PRC over-the-horizon backscatter radar on the Fujian coast: modelled 925 km inner and 3,330 km outer coverage limits sweeping across Japan, Okinawa and out toward Guam, set against the four forward US naval bases and Taipei.
Basemap Google Earth. Imagery Landsat / Copernicus; data SIO, NOAA, U.S. Navy, NGA, GEBCO.
GEOSPATIAL
Where the Gasoline Dollar Goes Decomposition of East Coast retail gasoline into crude, refining, distribution and marketing, and taxes, 1994 to 2026. Built in R (ggplot2) from EIA monthly series.
Data: U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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Systems
ledger-datacenters AI POLICY · VERIFICATION Verified-claim literature review of the US AI data-center buildout: 2,071 citable claims, each passed verbatim, numeric and entailment gates against content-hashed sources, with the corpus's coverage limit stated up front.
nla-eval INTERPRETABILITY · ENGINEERING Hands-on interpretability eval: rented an H100 and ran the released NLA checkpoints end to end across Qwen and Gemma, measuring reconstruction quality and residual-stream geometry. Dataset on Zenodo.
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Record
Flight log · 2019-2026
Technical skills
Languages Turkish (native) · English (C2) · French (A1)
AI / ML LLM application design (RAG, retrieval, reranking) · evaluation & guardrails (prompt-injection defense, topic-lock, LLM-as-judge) · structured-output & tool-use schema design · OpenAI & Anthropic APIs
Quant & statistical Stata (t-tests, ANOVA, OLS) · R (tidyverse, ggplot2, RMarkdown) · Excel (KPI, NPV, scenario & sensitivity) · QGIS (geoprocessing, suitability)
Data & sources pgvector · SQL · Eurostat · EUR-Lex · UN Comtrade · UN DPO peacekeeping data · Web of Science
Visualization Power BI · R (ggplot2)
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Education DC 2024-2026 Johns Hopkins SAIS, Washington DC MA, International Relations Dean's and Global Scholarships. Coursework across international economics, statistics, GIS, and AI policy. Capstone: led a four-author feasibility study on integrating private AI into US government systems and wrote its risk section (inherited supply-chain exposure in frontier compute, and the added cyber attack surface: data poisoning, prompt injection, data leakage). ANK 2019-2024 Bilkent University, Ankara BA, Political Science & Public Administration (Honors) Full merit scholarship (top 3% national entrance exam); president of the International Relations Society. AMS 2022-2023 Amsterdam University College Exchange semester Political Science Honors Program. Experience DC 2026 SPAR (Supervised Program for Alignment Research) · Kairos AI Research Fellow Lead the structuring of the sourced verification dataset for a four-person evidence track on what compute-governance inspection regimes actually detect. Coordinate the case register linking compute governance proposals to analogues, and test-coded three verification methods, finding 11 gaps. IST 2025 UNFPA EECA Regional Office, Istanbul Data Bootcamp Intern Mapped HR and operations workflows across an 8-country cluster; built KPI dashboards on procurement and payment data for 140+ staff, presented to two country directors. IST 2024 Istanbul Policy Center Research & Administrative Affairs Intern Edited the center's 50-page annual report for funders and compiled daily policy news bulletins across a 12-week placement. ANK 2024 İhsan Doğramacı Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research Research Intern Annotated 17 peer-reviewed studies on China in UN peacekeeping and catalogued the field's quantitative data sources. ANK 2023-2024 Bilkent University · TÜBİTAK 3005 project Research Assistant Content-coded national employment-policy documents into the project's Social Network Analysis dataset for a Ministry of Labour partner study. PUB 2023 EURO Politika Published analysis (in Turkish) Changes in German Foreign and Security Policy after Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: Germany's Zeitenwende, energy dependence on Russia, and NATO burden-sharing. BXL 2023 TÜSİAD EU Office, Brussels Research Intern Assessed how emerging EU regulatory frameworks affect Turkish trade access, using Eurostat and UN Comtrade data, and wrote 28 items for the office's weekly EU bulletin. 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 ←→ keys · click a stop
IRS welcome talk Hosting Deputy FM Bozay EU Presidency press post Bilkent IR Society Drones thesis Amb. to Ukraine, on stage Amb. to NATO at IRS MFA strategy center MFA visit, group UNFPA EECA UNFPA EECA office GRF diplomacy seminars GRF, on stage Moderating Mearsheimer Mearsheimer session TUSIAD EU Office European Parliament Amb. Kaymakci, Brussels SAIS Bologna SAIS Washington DC Graduation, with Wolf Blitzer
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