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 Interests

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 conducting my Bachelor's thesis at Boğaziçi University under the supervision of Asst. Prof. İnci Meliha Baytaş and Asst. Prof. Arkadaş Özakin, developing an improved Constrained Lagrangian Neural Network (CLNN) that learns physical constraints directly from data.

Previously, I worked at Radboud University’s High Energy Physics group, where I developed transformer-based symbolic regression methods for interpretable modeling of gravitational wave signals and data-driven discovery of physical laws.

Before that, I interned at Forschungszentrum Jülich's PGI-8 Institute of Quantum Control, investigating mutual information as a measure of Neural Quantum State learnability using transformer architectures and information-theoretic methods for quantum many-body systems.

Earlier, I explored Lagrangian Neural Networks (LNNs) and symbolic regression under the guidance of Asst. Prof. Arkadaş Özakin at Boğaziçi University, showing how machine learning can infer theoretical quantities like the Lagrangian from data. I later presented these findings in a seminar I organized at my university.

Recent Publications