About
Mahir Yavuz
Product and engineering leader, educator, working with data since 1998.
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Mahir builds the teams and systems behind AI products and search, recommendation and ads platforms. Over two decades his teams have taken on data problems for companies including Nike, PwC, Google and Microsoft.
His work spans engineering, data visualization and media art, and has been shown at the Ars Electronica Festival, SIGGRAPH, ISEA and the Istanbul Biennial. He has taught since 2003, most recently at Columbia.
- Experience
- AirOpsHead of Engineering
- EtsyHead of Engineering, Search, Recommendations & Ads
- ToposCo-founder & CTO
- R/GADirector of Data Science
- Ars Electronica FuturelabSenior Researcher, Linz
- Teaching
- Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, Pratt, University of Art and Design Linz. Guest lectures at MIT, NYU and SVA.
- Lectures
- Business Applications of LLMs
Product Management with AI
- Shown at
- Ars Electronica Festival, SIGGRAPH, ISEA, Istanbul Biennial
- Talks
- TEDx Istanbul and Vienna, Microsoft Build, Visualized, Fast Company Innovation Festival
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