Welcome! I'm Abdullah Umut Hamzaoğulları

senior computer engineering & physics double major student at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul

Interested in natural sciences, working on AI for theoretical physics.

Research Areas

AI for Scientific Discovery

Using machine learning to accelerate scientific progress, particularly in theoretical physics

Theoretical & Computational Physics

Foundations of physics, quantum algorithms, relativity

Deep Learning & Symbolic AI

Transformer architectures, representation learning, and symbolic regression for interpretable models

Physics-Informed Machine Learning

Incorporating physical laws and symmetries into neural network architectures

Research Experience

My interdisciplinary background has shaped my research interests at the intersection of physics and machine learning:

Currently, I am working on foundation models for gravitational wave analysis at Radboud University, exploring transformer-based symbolic regression for interpretable modeling of gravitational wave signals.

Previously, I interned at Forschungszentrum Jülich's PGI-8 Institute of Quantum Control, where I developed metrics for learning wave function complexity using Neural Quantum States (NQS), employing transformer networks and information theory to understand quantum many-body systems.

I also worked on Lagrangian Neural Networks (LNN) and symbolic regression under the guidance of Assistant Professor Arkadaş Özakın at Boğaziçi University, exploring how machine learning can uncover theoretical quantities like the Lagrangian from data alone. This project exemplified how AI can be utilized to extract theoretical quantities from experimental data. I later shared these findings in a seminar I organized at my university.

Recent Publications