AIE 683
Hakan Emekci
Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Hacettepe University Founder & CEO, NavigaAI
About
Full CV →Hakan Emekci (Member, IEEE) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Artificial Intelligence, Institute of Informatics, Hacettepe University, and the Founder and CEO of NavigaAI, an artificial intelligence company based at Bilkent Cyberpark.
Academic Appointments
- 2026– Associate Professor, Hacettepe University Department of Artificial Intelligence, Institute of Informatics
- 2022–2026 Assistant Professor, TED University Graduate School, Applied Data Science
Professional Appointments
- 2023– Founder and Director, NavigaAI Inc. Bilkent Cyberpark, Ankara
- 2022– AI Expert, UNDP SDG AI Lab United Nations Development Programme
- 2021–2023 Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Centre for Technology and Development
- 2011–2022 Economist, Undersecretariat of Treasury Macro-Economic Modelling Department
Education
- 2013–2017 PhD in Economics, Hacettepe University Institute of Social Sciences. Thesis: Computational Analysis of CBRT’s Policy Statements and Quantifying the Effects on Financial Markets. Advisor: Prof. Dr. İbrahim Özkan.
- 2019–2020 Master’s in Finance, London Business School London, United Kingdom
- 2005–2011 BSc in Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University Faculty of Engineering, Ankara
- 2009–2010 Exchange Student in Informatics, Saarland University and Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany
In the Press
- TED University TEDÜ, WURI 2025’te Öğrenci Desteği ve Katılımı kategorisinde dünya ölçeğinde 23. seçildi 2025
- Karar TEDÜ WURI 2025’te dünya ölçeğinde 23. seçildi 2025
- Demirören News Agency (DHA) TED Üniversitesi yapay zekayı derslerine entegre ediyor 2024
- Gerçek Gündem TEDÜ, yapay zeka projesi NavigaAI Robomentor ile öğrencilerinin eğitim süreçlerini kolaylaştırıyor 2024
- Digital Age TED Üniversitesi’nde yapay zekâ dönemi 22 February 2024
Courses
All teaching →AIE 640
Artificial Intelligence Applications
AIE 635
Reinforcement Learning
AIE 639
AI Product Lifecycle and Process Management
Current projects AI-Assisted Tax Ruling Response System (e-Özelge) TÜBİTAK 1007 DataMentor TÜBİTAK
Selected publications
All publications →- 2025 Maximizing RAG Efficiency: A Comparative Analysis of RAG Methods Natural Language Processing (Cambridge University Press), 31(1), 1–25, 2025.
- 2025 Unveiling the Power of Large Language Models: A Comparative Study of Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Fine-Tuning, and Their Synergistic Fusion for Enhanced Performance IEEE Access, 13, 30936–30951, 2025.
- 2026 Multi-Objective Optimisation of Building Envelopes: A Surrogate-Assisted Three-Tier Verification Framework Building and Environment, 306, 115340, 2026.
- 2025 Securing With Dual-LLM Architecture: ChatTEDU an Open-Access Chatbot’s Defense IEEE Access, 13, 183156–183170, 2025.
- 2025 Is There a Threshold Effect of Money Growth on Inflation? Applied Economics Letters, 1–5, 2025.