About Me
I’m a co-founder and the CTO of Prisync, an e-commerce competitive analytics intelligence tool.
Interests
I am a computer scientist and a systems engineer. I create and consume API’s to develop new services. I use scripting languages and JVM languages.
I’m an ITU and Galatasaray Uni. alumni and a Ph.D. Candidate in complex systems in Bogazici University Computer Engineering Dept.
I occasionally tweet at @sametatdag, mostly in Turkish. For Prisync’s Twitter account, please refer to @PrisyncCom.
Publications
- Samet Atdag and Vincent Labatut, “A comparison of named entity recognition tools applied to biographical texts,” 2nd International Conference on Systems and Computer Science, Villeneuve d’Ascq, 2013, pp. 228-233, doi: 10.1109/IcConSCS.2013.6632052.
- Samet Atdag, Haluk O. Bingol: “Computational Models for Commercial Advertisements in Social Networks”, 2019; [http://arxiv.org/abs/1904.13198 arXiv:1904.13198].
Media & Press Appearances (mostly of Prisync)
- Fortune Turkey November 2020 - My partner Burc Tanir is in 40 under 40
- Pitchbook: Prisync acquires Competitor Price Watch
- Prisync raises $1.1 million Tech.eu / Ecommerce News Europe
- Wamda: Turkey-based Prisync acquires Spotlite
- Crunchbase: SpotLite acquired by Prisync
- Mirror UK: Why the iPhone X will cost you up to £249 more in the UK than the US
- Webrazzi: Prisync will represent Turkey at the World finals in Geneva Seedstars
- Wired UK: Europe’s hottest startups 2015
..and Some Local News:
- Birgun: IBB Open Data Portal
- Hurriyet: Special Comparison for You
- Hurriyet Daily News: Scientists warn against false earthquake predictions spreading panic in Turkey
- Webrazzi: Angel investment to Prisync from BIC Angel Investments and Galata Business Angels
- Webrazzi: Prisync, one of the initiatives that presented at Webrazzi Startup 13, is ready for its first customers
Education
- Bogazici University
Doctor of Philosophy Candidate (Ph.D.C.) @Dept. of Computer Engineering
Interests: Computer Science & Complex Systems - Galatasaray University
M.Sc. @Dept. of Computer Engineering
Interests: Data Mining, Natural Language Processing, Complex Network Analysis - Istanbul Technical University
B.Sc. @Faculty of Computer and Informatics Engineering
Some Videos I Appeared in
- Pycon Berlin [2019]: Web is Broken – What we learned from scraping 1 billion webpages every month
- CTO Talks [2018]: Youtube
- Selman Bozkır [2019]: Youtube
Additionally, I host a Youtube show, Aslinda Cok Basit (roughly translated as: It’s Actually Very Simple) on Prisync Labs' YT Channel.
Drop me a line if you want to talk about something interesting.