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Sidar Aslanoğlu

Technology policy, built and evaluated by hand.

Analyst at Johns Hopkins SAIS 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 or UK. US-work-authorized from July 2026 on F-1 OPT (1 year), open to sponsorship after.

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01 / SYSTEMS

Systems

Emersus AI

RAG · Trust & Safety

Scientific-evidence RAG assistant, built solo in six weeks: 2.3M paper records from 14 sources, 1.74M chunks in a pgvector index, +10pp recall@10 from reranking, a 4-layer Trust & Safety stack, 97.3% across 1,783 verified citation anchors.

1,345 COMMITS IN THE SIX-WEEK BUILD WINDOW (REAL DATA)JS 77% · HTML 10% · CSS 9% · OTHER 4%SHIPPED APR 2026 · REPO ↗ ·

nla-eval

INTERPRETABILITY

Independent eval of NLA checkpoints: anisotropy-corrected metrics, negative results published (Zenodo DOI).

PYTHON 100%PUSHED JUN 9REPO ↗

gpuwatch

AGENT SAFETY

Autonomous purchase agent with hard spend caps and an HMAC confirmation gate config cannot override.

PYTHON 94%PUSHED JUN 9REPO ↗

fieldatlas

AI SAFETY

Reliability-first automated literature review: every claim verified against source text.

HTML 58%PUSHED JUN 9REPO ↗

dc-frontier-events

LIVE · PIPELINE

DC frontier-tech event aggregator: multi-source dedup feeding ICS, RSS, JSON and map outputs.

PYTHON 98%PUSHED JUN 10LIVE ↗ REPO ↗

aslan-core

DATA PLATFORM

Bitemporal financial-data platform: immutable audit trail, content-addressed provenance, ~1,000 tests.

PYTHON 100%PUSHED JUN 9REPO ↗

h1b-labor-map

POLICY · DATA

Federal-data ETL: which US employers sponsor H-1B, every threshold cited to the Federal Register.

HTML 50%PUSHED JUN 9REPO ↗

multiverse-worldcup

SIMULATION

10,000 Monte Carlo tournament simulations on a 3D globe: inject what-ifs, watch probabilities ripple.

TS 62%PUSHED JUN 4REPO ↗

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.

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Writing

First page of Natural Language Autoencoders: A Cross-Model Eval

                                              
                                              
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03 / RECORD

Record

Flight log · 2019-2026

Sidar presenting the International Relations Society to new members at Bilkent — IRS welcome talk

Sidar introducing Deputy Foreign Minister Mehmet Kemal Bozay at Bilkent — Hosting Deputy FM Bozay

Press post from Turkey's Presidency of EU Affairs on the Bozay conference at Bilkent — EU Presidency press post

Sidar moderating a Bilkent IR Society stage interview — Bilkent IR Society

Presenting the undergraduate thesis poster on drones in the Russia-Ukraine war — Drones thesis

On stage before a full hall with Turkey's former ambassador to Ukraine — Amb. to Ukraine, on stage

Sidar with Turkey's former ambassador to NATO at Bilkent IRS — Amb. to NATO at IRS

Bilkent IRS visiting the foreign ministry's strategic research center — MFA strategy center

Group photo outside the strategic research center — MFA visit, group

Sidar between the UN and UNFPA flags at the EECA regional office — UNFPA EECA

The UNFPA EECA regional office team room in Istanbul — UNFPA EECA office

Sidar speaking at the Global Relations Forum Ilter Turkmen Diplomacy Seminars — GRF diplomacy seminars

Sidar presenting at the GRF seminar boardroom screen — GRF, on stage

Sidar moderating a Zoom session with Prof. John Mearsheimer — Moderating Mearsheimer

Prof. Mearsheimer speaking during the Bilkent IRS Zoom session — Mearsheimer session

The iron-laced door of the TUSIAD EU office in Brussels — TUSIAD EU Office

Sidar with co-interns at the European Parliament — European Parliament

With Ambassador Faruk Kaymakci at Turkey's Permanent Delegation to the EU — Amb. Kaymakci, Brussels

The Johns Hopkins SAIS sign at the Bologna campus — SAIS Bologna

Sidar at SAIS DC with the Capitol dome in the background — SAIS Washington DC

Shaking hands with Wolf Blitzer at the SAIS graduation — Graduation, with Wolf Blitzer

                                              
                                              
                                              
                                              
                                              
                                              
                                              
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04 / CONTACT

Contact

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