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Hi! My name is Atakan Okan (Ata for short) and I am currently a Data Scientist at Millennium Capital Partners. I hold a MS in Data Science degree from NYU and a BS degree in Industrial Engineering from Istanbul Technical University. I started my quantitative path at prop-trading desk working on quantitative strategy development and during my MS degree I also became interested in other ML topics such as Natural Language Processing, generative modeling and time series forecasting using deep learning techniques. I had the exceptional luck of applying all these techniques in vastly different domains ranging from venture capital to astrophysics. I try to keep up with all the state-of-the-art research in areas I am interested in while joining discussions about the papers in online forums.

In my spare time, I love to compete in simracing in iRacing (Dallara F3 and Skip Barber series) and F1 2020. I also enjoy reading about public and private financial markets, macroeconomics, philosophy and history.

About This Site

I created this website to share some opinion pieces on ML, summaries and lists of papers I read. Hopefully my paper summaries will help others who see Abstract sections of papers not particularly descriptive and my reading list can be a guide for those who want to dive deeper into a certain subject.

Contact Me

Feel free to contact me with any question or message via my email atakanokan-at-outlook-com.