hi, my name is mert sonmezer.

i work at the intersection of intersection of research and production systems. my research has focused on retrieval-augmented generation, generative models, and how to adapt frontier models to domains where the data is messy, the stakes are high, and the benchmarks don't quite exist yet -- medicine, finance, etc.

i've spent roughly equal time on both sides of the research-production line. three first-author papers at top-venues; ~2 years building llm agent systems and rag pipelines at neural bridge. i think those two tracks teach each other things, and the goal of most of my work is to make that exchange a little more concrete.

-- bsc in computer engineering @ metu, graduating june 2026.

-- first-author papers at iccv 2025, midl 2026, and neural networks. arxiv: 2510.15022, 2602.07872, 2504.17913.

-- i research how foundation models generalize to high-stakes vertical domains: finance, medicine, and scientific imaging.

-- based in ankara.