Ozel Yilmazel

CS Graduate Student & Researcher · UMass Amherst

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Merhaba, I'm a Computer Science graduate student at UMass Amherst, pursuing my M.S. as a Bay State Fellow while conducting research at the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR). My work focuses on personalization, retrieval model distillation and optimization.

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• April 2026 My very first paper "Personalized Question Answering via a Dual Retrieval Augmentation Approach" is accepted to SIGIR 2026! See you in Melbourne :-D
• Feb 2026 Papers submitted! Admitted to UMass Amherst for PhD!
• Dec 2025 Our Spotify Natural Querying project scored second place by popularity vote in our information retrieval class.
• Oct 2025 Started working with MassAITC on developing an AI facilitator bot for caregiver support groups.
• May 2025 Graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.S. in Computer Science from UMass Amherst, earning Dean's List honors and a Chancellor's Award.
• Apr 2025 Started as a Graduate Student Researcher at UMass Amherst's CIIR, focusing on asymmetric personalization in language models.
• Sep 2024 Transitioned to a part-time Machine Learning Engineer role at the UMass Center for Data Science, continuing work on the iNatAtor annotation platform and GeoModel improvements.
• Aug 2024 Completed a summer internship as a Data Science Intern with DS4CG, developing iNatAtor and contributing to the SINR research project.
• Jul 2023 Started a summer internship as a software developer and machine learning engineer at an early-stage start-up.