CV

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), September 2025 - 2031
  • GPA: 4.0/4.0
• B.S. in Computer Science, Bilkent University, September 2021 - June 2025
  • CGPA: 3.83/4.00, graduated Summa Cum Laude
  • Ranked 14th out of 216 in the CS Department

Academic positions

• Graduate Student Researcher, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), January 2026 - Present
  • UCLA SEAL Lab, Advisor: Prof. Miryung Kim
  • Los Angeles, CA

Awards and fellowships

• CS Summer Research Award, UCLA, June 2026
• 100% Merit Scholarship, Bilkent University, 2024-2025
• 40% Merit Scholarship, Bilkent University, 2023-2024
• 60% Merit Scholarship, Bilkent University, 2022-2023
• Bilkent 2024 Outstanding Responsible Artificial Intelligence Award

Work experience

• Undergraduate Researcher, BILSEN, Ankara, Turkey — January 2024 - September 2025
  • Designed methodologies for assessing software evolution and code persistence, and developed Atommit, a multi-agent LLM tool for generating atomic Git commits. Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eray Tüzün.
• Software Engineer Intern, TÜBİTAK BİLGEM YTE, Ankara, Turkey — July 2024 - August 2024
  • Led a team of 11 interns building a full-stack employee information management system.
• Software Engineer Intern, TechNarts, Ankara, Turkey — June 2024 - July 2024
  • Built a Notion-inspired full-stack web application with a rich text editor.
• Data Science Intern, MobileAction, Ankara, Turkey — August 2023 - September 2023
  • Performed exploratory data analysis and visualization on Google Play Store and App Store datasets.

Publications

Accurate and Low-Cost Residual Risk Assessment via Sampled Profiling and Structure-Aware Coverage Amplification

Seongmin Lee, Işıl Özgü, Marcel Böhme, and Miryung Kim. 2026. "Accurate and Low-Cost Residual Risk Assessment via Sampled Profiling and Structure-Aware Coverage Amplification." In Proceedings of the 41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE '26), October 12–16, 2026, Munich, Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 12 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3832783.3837519

The Parser Already Knows: Lightweight Bias Correction in Constrained Decoding

Işıl Özgü, Yaoxuan Wu, Guy Van den Broeck, and Miryung Kim. 2026. "The Parser Already Knows: Lightweight Bias Correction in Constrained Decoding." arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.10137.

Service

• Student Volunteer, International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2025), June 2025 - July 2025