Berkant Turan

researcher at ZIB since September 2022
doctoral candidate at TUB

📬 Contact

office Room 3024 at ZIB
e-mail turan (at) zib.de
homepage b-turan.github.io
languages German, English, and Turkish

🎓 Academic Background

Jan 2022 M.Sc. in Scientific Computing at TUB
Oct 2018 B.Sc. in Engineering Science at TUB

🔬 Research

I am working on improving the interpretability of AI, focusing on the Merlin-Arthur Classifier. This intriguing model uses two feature selectors to generate meaningful saliency maps. My objectives are to fine-tune its architecture, explore its adversarial components, and evaluate its effectiveness with complex datasets.

Conference proceedings

  1. Wäldchen, S., Sharma, K., Zimmer, M., Turan, B., and Pokutta, S. (2024). Merlin-Arthur Classifiers: Formal Interpretability with Interactive Black Boxes. Proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. [arXiv]
    [BibTeX]
    @inproceedings{wszp_merlinarthur_22,
  year = {2024},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  eprint = {2206.00759},
  primaryclass = {cs.LG},
  author = {Wäldchen, Stephan and Sharma, Kartikey and Zimmer, Max and Turan, Berkant and Pokutta, Sebastian},
  title = {Merlin-Arthur Classifiers: Formal Interpretability with Interactive Black Boxes}
}

💬 Talks and posters

Conference and workshop talks

Sep 2023
TES Summer School on Optimization and Machine Learning [PDF]
Jul 2023
The 1st World Conference on EXplainable Artificial Intell...

👨‍🏫 Teaching

winter 2019
Tutor for Statics and Elementary Strength of Materials at TUB
summer 2018
Tutor for Energy-Based Methods in Mechanics at TUB
summer 2018
Tutor for Continuum Mechanics at TUB
winter 2018
Tutor for Kinematics and Dynamics at TUB
summer 2017
Tutor for Statics and Elementary Strength of Materials at TUB
winter 2017
Tutor for Energy-Based Methods in Mechanics at TUB
winter 2017
Tutor for Continuum Mechanics at TUB
summer 2016
Tutor for Kinematics and Dynamics at TUB
summer 2015
Tutor for Statics and Elementary Strength of Materials at TUB