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Sidar Aslanoğlu
Technology policy, built and evaluated by hand.
SAIS-trained analyst (MA 2026) who builds and evaluates the AI systems he assesses.
Open to roles in AI policy, international security and political risk. Full-time · Washington DC, open to relocating in the US.
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01 / SYSTEMS
Systems
Emersus AI RAG · Trust & Safety Scientific-evidence RAG assistant, built solo in six weeks: a paper corpus of over a million records from PubMed, OpenAlex and a dozen other sources in a pgvector index, reranked retrieval (+10pp recall@10 over the dense baseline), a moderation and prompt-injection stack, and anchor-verified citations benchmarked offline at 97.3% across 1,783 anchors.
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. The repo plus a candid writeup of the engineering; not a paper, not a finding.
gpuwatch AGENT SAFETY Autonomous purchase agent with hard spend caps and an HMAC confirmation gate config cannot override.
fieldatlas AI SAFETY Reliability-first automated literature review: every claim verified against source text.
dc-frontier-events-aggregator LIVE · PIPELINE DC frontier-tech event aggregator: multi-source dedup feeding ICS, RSS, JSON and map outputs.
aslan-core DATA PLATFORM Bitemporal financial-data platform: immutable audit trail, content-addressed provenance, ~1,000 tests.
h1b-labor-map POLICY · DATA Federal-data ETL: which US employers sponsor H-1B, every threshold cited to the Federal Register.
multiverse-worldcup SIMULATION 10,000 Monte Carlo tournament simulations on a 3D globe: inject what-ifs, watch probabilities ripple.
sidaraslanoglu.com ASCII · NO FRAMEWORK You are looking at it: static HTML plus a hand-rolled ASCII 3D engine in ~6.5 KB of JavaScript.
PRIVATE BUILD · THE SITE ITSELF IS THE DEMO
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02 / WRITING
Writing
03 / 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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04 / RECORD
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, anchor verification) · 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. 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 RMT 2026 Emersus AI Founder & Engineer (Remote) Built a scientific-evidence RAG assistant end to end; the corpus, retrieval, safety and evaluation numbers are in Selected work above. IST 2025 UNFPA EECA Regional Office, Istanbul HR & Operations 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 (International Security) Annotated 17 peer-reviewed studies on China in UN peacekeeping and catalogued the field's quantitative data sources. ANK 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 Quantified Turkish sector exposure to emerging EU regulation with Eurostat and UN Comtrade data; wrote weekly EU policy briefs. 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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