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Kaan Hacihaliloglu

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currently i am tech lead at SCL, writing my thesis, and doing research on the interpretability and safety of large language models.

currently working onrefusal geometry in llms

01currently working on

  1. 2025

    refusal geometry in llms

    msc thesis at sabancı university, on how refusal behavior and safety representations are encoded inside large language models.

  2. 2024

    SCL, synthetic consumer lab

    building synthetic consumer systems for behavior simulation and market research workflows, with a great team.

  3. 2024

    soundboost

    ai engineer on an audio mastering platform, a virtual mastering engineer for musicians. worked on the free tools and the stem splitter, with cool people.

02more about me

studied physics at boğaziçi, met machine learning and deep learning in the EarthML research group, and decided to go further into data science and computer science. started a cs master's in padova but that program was not for me, then came data science at sabancı, together with startups. weekdays go to product, nights to the internals of llms.

studied
physics, boğaziçi university
now
msc data science, sabancı university
based in
istanbul
online
kaanhho, and khdoex on github

03resume

where i have been so far, most recent first. the pdf is the same thing, in a shape recruiters like.

  1. 2025 –

    AI Engineer · Synthetic Consumer Lab

  2. 2025 – 2026

    Teaching Assistant · Sabancı University

  3. 2024 – 2025

    AI Engineer / Data Scientist · SoundBoost

04writing

notes on interpretability, machine learning, and the occasional detour through life. some in english, some in turkish. hopefully i will write more soon.

05say hi

if you work on interpretability, or synthetic consumers, or just vibes, write me. i am online most of the time.