Irmak Erkol

Irmak Erkol is an AI Engineer and Data Scientist currently working at MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company while pursuing an M.Sc. in Data and Computer Science at Heidelberg University as an ELIZA Fellow. With over 5 years of experience spanning software engineering, machine learning, and data science, her work sits at the crossroads of rigorous research and real-world impact. At MSC, she has built and deployed 10+ production ML systems from a RAG chatbot serving 5,000+ employees to predictive maintenance pipelines for a 1,000+ vehicle fleet. Beyond industry, her research focus centres on medical AI and AI for science spanning ADHD diagnosis through eye-tracking data analysis, cognitive behaviour modelling, fairness in predictive justice systems, and complex network analysis. She holds a B.Sc. from Koç University and was awarded a Research-Oriented Master’s Scholarship at ELIZA.