University of Hamburg                                                                                                                         Hamburg, Germany

Hub of Computing & Data Science | Visiting Researcher                                                                      Oct 2025 – Feb 2026  

Host Supervisor: Prof. Dr.  Chris Biemann

Research: LLM-Derived Firm-Level Sentiment, Stock Return Prediction, and Alpha Generation

   National Centre for Physics                                                                                                                   Islamabad, Pakistan

Artificial Intelligence Technology Center | Visiting Researcher                                                            Jul 2025 – Sep 2025

Host Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Syed Khursheed Hasnain

Research: Firm-Level Financial Sentiment Analysis and Asset Pricing

University of Ljubljana                                                                                                                                      Ljubljana, Slovenia

Faculty of Computer and Information Science | Visiting Researcher                                                                    Sep 2024 – Nov 2024 

Host Supervisor: Prof. Dr.  Slavko Žitnik

Research: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Target-Based Financial Sentiment Analysis

The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK)                                   Kayseri, Türkiye

Abdullah Gül University | Research Assistant                                                                                     May 2017 - Apr 2018

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Eyüp Doğan

Research: Assessment of Turkish citizen’s willingness to pay for green electricity