Meltem Sarıgül, Attorney
Startup and technology law attorney; mentor on shareholder agreements and investment terms.
- Area of expertise
- Law and contracts
- Experience
- 15 years
- Background
- Girişim ve teknoloji hukuku avukatı
Dr. Gülsüm Karaaslan
Former head of an AI research lab; mentor on productising machine learning.
Dr. Gülsüm Karaaslan managed natural language processing and computer vision projects at a research institute for 14 years and has more than 30 scientific papers. She now mentors AI startups on moving from model to product.
What does she look at?
She spots the mistakes founders often make: underestimating data quality, focusing on model accuracy without testing with real users, ignoring compute cost. With teams who want to add large language models to their product, she works through the balance between cost, latency and data privacy.
Topics
- Data strategy and labelling
- Model choice: off-the-shelf API or own model
- KVKK and ethics in AI products
Role at Çimlen
She advises the panel in the technical pre-assessment of AI startups applying to the programme and answers questions at a monthly open office hour. Before sessions a one-page agenda is requested and afterwards the actions are shared in writing; to meet, use the mentor meeting request form.
Mentoring topics
- Data strategy
- Model selection
- AI ethics
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- Background
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