Merve Karakas (Preferred)
Merve Karakas
PhD student, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
Joined
May 2023
Names
Emails
****@ucla.edu (Confirmed)
****@g.ucla.edu (Confirmed)
****@ku.edu.tr (Confirmed)
Personal Links
Career & Education History
PhD student
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles (ucla.edu)
2021 – Present
Undergrad student
Engineering, Koç University (ku.edu.tr)
2016 – 2021
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
Expertise
data imputation
, large scale machine learning
, sparsity
Present
RLHF
, LLMs
, post-training
2025 – Present
ACOPF
, power systems
, economic dispatch
, AI for energy
2025 – Present
recommendation systems
2023 – Present
bandits
, reinforcement learning
, lower bounds
2022 – Present
communication constrained machine learning
, statistical machine learning
2021 – Present