alphanö.

Software. Research. Real-world questions.

Alphan Özcan.

I build where software meets the real world.

I’m Alphan — a student and developer exploring AI, robotics, and the ideas that turn into things we can use.

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İzmir, Türkiye 38°25′ N / 27°08′ EA little further down
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01Work

Ideas, out in the world.

From signals inside the body to systems beneath the sea. A selection of things I’m building and questions I’m working through.

Work
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Marine ecosystem / Edge AI

Intelligence, below the surface.

An underwater vision system for detecting mucilage, ghost nets, marine litter, and invasive species — without a cloud connection.

  • Python
  • YOLOv11
  • Raspberry Pi 5
  • Google Coral TPU
Explore project
Marine Ecosystem project team with their underwater monitoring device, laptop and exhibition posters at TÜBİTAK
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Autonomous vehicle / Robotaxi

Making sense of the road.

Sensor-fusion development for the Bilişim Vadisi-supported TEKNOFEST Robotaxi competition, following a month of programming the vehicles before racing.

  • Sensor fusion
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Robotaxi team in front of the TEKNOFEST autonomous vehicle competition banner at Bilişim Vadisi

More experiments. More questions.

All work

02Recognition

Some moments that stayed.

Recognition across research, robotics, entrepreneurship, and writing.

Writing / Environmental awareness

2026

Silent Invaders.

“Silent Invaders: How the Mediterranean’s Underwater Crisis Is Erasing an Ancient Sea”

A Voice for Animals · 2026
2nd place · Written Essay · Ages 16–18

Writing about the Mediterranean’s underwater crisis and environmental awareness.

Animal Welfare Institute & Humane Education Network

Essay & award evidence awaiting upload
01/place

Diamond Challenge

DIAMOND CHALLENGE — ATHENS

01/place

World Robot Olympiad

WRO Turkey — Future Innovators

02/place

World Robot Olympiad

WRO Turkey — Future Engineers · 2026

02/place

TÜBİTAK 2204-A

TÜBİTAK 2204-A — İZMİR REGION

03/place

NASA Space Apps

NASA SPACE APPS — İZMİR

04/place

TEKNOFEST

TEKNOFEST AI IN HEALTHCARE — TURKEY

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FIRST Championship

Engineering Inspiration Award · Winner · 2025

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FIRST Championship

FIRST Impact Award · Finalist · 2024

Also: Code Night İzmir — 2nd place; Conrad Challenge — 2× Conrad Innovator (Kraken & FarmerAI); TEKNOFEST Flying Car — national finalist. The full archive →

03Leadership & impact

Good work is rarely a solo act.

Teaching, building, and learning with other people is part of the work.

Alphan Özcan at a TEKNOFEST eventA face behind the work.
ÇiçekliAI members beside the community's exhibition stand and project laptopsÇiçekliAI. People behind the shared ideas.
TEKNOFEST team beside an autonomous vehicle at the event standTEKNOFEST. Built and shared as a team.
01

FRC Team 6429 | 4th Dimension

Engineering Projects Sub-Team Lead & Senior Java Programmer

Jan 2023 – Jul 2025 · İzmir

  • Progressed from Software Intern to Engineering Projects Lead — Java-based autonomous/teleop robot software, led the Poseidon project.
  • Led a 4-person Engineering Projects subteam within FRC Team 6429. The FRC team won the Engineering Inspiration Award at the 2025 FIRST Championship (Galileo Division) and was a FIRST Impact Award finalist in 2024. Its Haliç Regional results include the 2025 Team Sustainability Award and the 2024 Regional FIRST Impact Award.

At İzmir-based FRC Team 6429, engineering extended beyond the competition robot: shared learning, environmental projects, and access to STEAM across generations.

Beyond the competition field

Ask4ward

Developed an AI chatbot to support other FIRST teams through their award-essay writing process.

7'den 77'ye STEM

Taught robotics and coding to children at public primary schools in disadvantaged areas, bringing hands-on STEM learning into their classrooms.

STEM across generations

Brought the same outreach model to elderly care homes, making science and technology a shared learning experience across generations.

4D Exhibit

Showcased primary-school pupils' paintings, connecting artistic expression with science and technology through the STEM-to-STEAM approach.

4Dathon

Established a hackathon format where students tackled problems and competed through web development, turning their ideas into working projects.

Poseidon

Led the team's environmental engineering project. Its catamaran platform is designed to clean surface pollution in harbors, river mouths, and marinas, bringing together mechanics, electronics, programming, and AI.

Reported team-wide reach: approximately 4 million people across three years of projects and events.

  • Java
02

ÇiçekliAI

Community Co-Lead / Instructor / R&D Lead

Since late 2022 · İzmir

  • Help lead one of Turkey's first high-school-level AI communities, teaching roughly 30–35 students a year.
  • Took over leadership with a co-lead after the founder's departure, sustaining and growing the program.
  • Direct R&D initiatives including a university-essay-grading tool; prepare students for TEKNOFEST AI in Healthcare.
03

EMT Projects

Electronics & Coding Member / IT Manager

Since Sep 2024 · İzmir

  • Manage IT infrastructure and lead electronics/coding projects for a school-based engineering initiative.
04

EF Education First

Student Ambassador

Sep 2025 – Mar 2026 · İzmir

  • Represent EF, promoting international education programs to peers.

04Experience

Where I’ve been building.

Nov 2025 · 1 mo

HubX AI Lab

Machine Learning Intern

One of Türkiye’s few unicorn companies

Urla, İzmir

  • Applied zero-shot segmentation with Meta's Segment Anything Model to isolate primary subjects in video content for a product-facing workflow.
  • Gained hands-on experience in model optimization and Python-based video/data analysis inside a professional AI R&D lab.
  • Python
  • Segment Anything Model (SAM)
Jul 2025 – Feb 2026

CrasAI

Cofounder & Backend/AI Systems Developer

İzmir

  • Cofounded and engineered the backend for CrasAI (crasai.com), a multi-model AI platform unifying text, image generation, and data processing in one interface.
  • Designed a Go-based backend with an original automatic model-selection algorithm that routes each request to the fastest, most suitable model.
  • Built the LLM routing and orchestration layer from scratch — product thinking and system-level AI architecture in one place.
  • Go
  • Python
  • LLM APIs
Nov 2025 – Mar 2026 · 5 mo

Cardo Digital Business Cards

Founder

İzmir

  • Founded Cardo (cardo.net.tr), turning traditional business cards into interactive, eco-friendly NFC/QR digital profiles.
  • Designed the end-to-end experience so professionals can share credentials instantly.
  • NFC
  • QR
  • Web
Sep 2025 – Feb 2026

Delfine

Backend Developer

İzmir

  • Designed and maintained backend architecture for the Delfine security toolkit, focused on security-driven API integrations and data privacy.
  • Integrated the VirusTotal API for real-time malware detection and orchestrated GPT-4o / Llama 3 for automated security analysis.
  • Engineered AES-256 encryption and metadata-scrubbing, and optimized workflows for the Phishing and Cookie Policy Analyzer modules.
  • Python
  • VirusTotal API
  • GPT-4o
  • Llama 3
  • AES-256
Mar 2023 – Jun 2025 · 2 yr 4 mo

Today The 50th

Senior Web Developer

İzmir

  • Developed and maintained web platforms as senior developer for over two years alongside a full academic workload.
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript

05About

Curiosity is the common thread.

I’m a student at Bahçeşehir High School for Science and Technology in İzmir, working toward studying Computer Science. My work moves between medical AI, underwater sensing, robotics, and small ventures. I like the part where an idea has to survive contact with the real world.

I'm a student at Bahçeşehir High School for Science and Technology in İzmir, working toward a Computer Science degree. Over the past three years I've moved between applied AI research (medical imaging, marine edge-AI), robotics (FIRST Robotics Competition), and founding small startups (CrasAI, Cardo) — usually all at once. I direct ÇiçekliAI, one of Turkey's first high-school AI communities, and split most of my time between a Jupyter notebook and a pitch deck.

Education

Bahçeşehir High School for Science and Technology

High School Diploma

Sep 2022 – Jun 2027 · İzmir, Türkiye
Relevant coursework
  • AP Physics 1
  • AP Physics C: Mechanics
  • AP Statistics
  • AP Calculus BC
  • AP Computer Science A

Areas of Expertise

  • Python
  • Go
  • Swift (iOS)
  • Java
  • JavaScript / HTML / CSS
  • PyTorch & Applied AI/ML
  • Product Management

Languages

Turkish — Native

English — Advanced

Certificates & Training
  • Claude Code in Action
  • YGA Summit 2025 — Participant Certificate
  • YGA'24 Zirve Katılımcı Sertifikası
  • Blue Ocean Student Entrepreneurs Mini-Course
  • Equalize The Future — Young Entrepreneurs Idea Marathon (Bootcamp)

06An open conversation

Have a question
worth building around?

For a project, a conversation, or a good idea — my inbox is open.

alphanozcan@gmail.com
İzmir, Türkiye
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07 / With gratitude

A shared story.

With gratitude

To the people behind the work.

To the friends who built, tested, questioned, and kept going alongside me: thank you. These projects carry your ideas, your effort, and the time we shared. To the teachers who made room for our curiosity and helped us find our way: thank you for believing in us. I’m grateful to have learned and built with you.

Friends & collaborators

Teachers & mentors

Thank you for being part of the story.

And of course, to my mother and father: thank you for always being there and believing in me.