Hande Celikkanat
Senior ML Engineer at Common Crawl Foundation
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolHande Celikkanat is a Senior ML Engineer based in Helsinki with 8 years of experience bridging academic research and production machine learning, currently working at the Common Crawl Foundation. Her background spans cognitive robotics, deep learning, and Bayesian methods, with a PhD-rooted track record in hierarchical generative models and emergent representation analysis in multilingual neural models. She has translated uncertainty-aware research into practical, well-calibrated language models using HuggingFace and has built customer-specific moderation systems with large language and transformer-based models. Known for probing how syntax and massive multilinguality shape model internals, she brings both theoretical rigor and hands-on deployment experience to large-scale text engineering problems. An often-overlooked strength is her neuroscience-informed work on EEG and affective state decoding, which informs her probabilistic approach to model interpretability and robustness.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Ph.D. at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University
Github Skills (45)
prosody10
commoncrawl10
corpus10
sequence-labeling10
schema-org10
bert10
datasets9
speech-synthesis9
natural-language-processing9
json-ld9
machine-learning8
statistics8
pytorch8
bibtex7
warc6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Helsinki-NLP/Syntactic_Debiasing
May 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:106 commits, 103 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
commoncrawl/cc-citations
Jun 2025 - Dec 2025
Scientific articles using or citing Common Crawl data
Contributions:10 reviews, 2 PRs, 15 pushes in 5 months
commoncrawlbibtexbibliographyopendata
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