Kaan Sancak

Researcher, Ranking & Foundational AI, Meta

Joined

December 2022

Names

Kaan Sancak (Preferred)

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@gatech.edu (Confirmed)

****@meta.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher

Ranking & Foundational AI, Meta (meta.com)

2024 – Present

PhD student

Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology (gatech.edu)

2019 – 2024

Undergrad student

Computer Engineering, Bilkent University (bilkent.edu.tr)

2015 – 2019

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Umit V. Catalyurek

Present

Expertise

Graph Machine Learning

Present

High Performance Computing

Present

AI Infra

Present

Publications

Haystack Engineering: Context Engineering for Heterogeneous and Agentic Long-Context Evaluation
Mufei Li, Dongqi Fu, Limei Wang, Si Zhang, Hanqing Zeng, Kaan Sancak, Ruizhong Qiu, Haoyu Peter Wang, Xiaoxin He, Xavier Bresson, Yinglong Xia, Chonglin Sun, Pan Li
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Haystack Engineering: Context Engineering Meets the Long-Context Challenge in Large Language Models
Mufei Li, Dongqi Fu, Limei Wang, Si Zhang, Hanqing Zeng, Kaan Sancak, Ruizhong Qiu, Haoyu Peter Wang, Xiaoxin He, Xavier Bresson, Yinglong Xia, Chonglin Sun, Pan Li
- NeurIPS 2025 LLM Evaluation Workshop Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Do We Really Need Complicated Graph Learning Models? -- A Simple but Effective Baseline
Kaan Sancak, Muhammed Fatih Balin, Umit Catalyurek
- LoG 2024 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
VCR-Graphormer: A Mini-batch Graph Transformer via Virtual Connections
Dongqi Fu, Zhigang Hua, Yan Xie, Jin Fang, Si Zhang, Kaan Sancak, Hao Wu, Andrey Malevich, Jingrui He, Bo Long
- ICLR 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone
A Fast and Effective Alternative to Graph Transformers
Kaan Sancak, Zhigang Hua, Jin Fang, Yan Xie, Bo Long, Andrey Malevich, Muhammed Fatih Balin, Umit Catalyurek
- Submitted to ICLR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
MG-GCN: A Scalable multi-GPU GCN Training Framework
Muhammed Fatih Balin, Kaan Sancak, Ümit V. Çatalyürek
- 2022 (modified: 04 Apr 2023)
- ICPP 2022
- Readers: Everyone
On Symmetric Rectilinear Partitioning
Abdurrahman Yasar, Muhammed Fatih Balin, Xiaojing An, Kaan Sancak, Ümit V. Çatalyürek
- 2022 (modified: 04 Apr 2023)
- ACM J. Exp. Algorithmics 2022
- Readers: Everyone
EIGA: elastic and scalable dynamic graph analysis
Kasimir Gabert, Kaan Sancak, M. Yusuf Özkaya, Ali Pinar, Ümit V. Çatalyürek
- Published: 01 Jan 2021, Last Modified: 12 May 2023
- SC 2021
- Readers: Everyone

Co-Authors

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