Research interests

NLP and efficient training: how much a model can learn when compute and time are tight. My bachelor thesis tested this on extractive summarization with a transformer trained from scratch in 12 hours.

Thesis

Racing the Clock: Training a Transformer from Scratch for Extractive Summarization

Bedirhan Salbacak

Bachelor thesis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2025

Key coursework

Achievements

Achievement or award

2025

Hackathon win, scholarship, student org — whatever you're proud of.

Another achievement

2024

What it was and why it mattered to you.