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Mehmet Ali KURT

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🧑‍💼 About Me

🎓 B.Sc. in Actuarial Sciences — Hacettepe University
📋 Completed Level 2 Actuarial Examinations
📐 Actuarial Analytics — Insurance pricing, reserving & risk modeling

I combine actuarial rigor with modern data science to build reproducible, end-to-end analytical pipelines — from risk modeling and predictive analytics to interactive decision-support dashboards.

Currently seeking opportunities in actuarial consulting, insurance analytics, and quantitative risk management.


Selected projects

My focus is insurance pricing, reserving and transparent model validation. Start with these three:

Project What it demonstrates Explore
IBNR Reserving Incurred chain ladder, segmented development triangles and historical backtests. Includes synthetic-data and CAS conversion checks. Method & validation
ADAS Pricing · Vol 2 Poisson/Gamma pricing, interactions and Gini/lift analysis on a synthetic portfolio. Live demo
MC-AWARE Independent research on majority-class traps and anti-predictive behavior in the tested BIST assets and periods. Dashboard

More work

Project Focus
ADAS Pricing · Vol 1 The original synthetic-data frequency–severity demonstration
Risk Scoring Dashboard Logistic claim-probability model; reported in-sample AUC 0.828, not held-out validation
Direction Forecasting ARIMA, LSTM and CNN research on BIST and pension-fund direction
Project Ascend · Live A validated 200-movement graph and deterministic progression engine; local-first React/TypeScript PWA
İfade · Install 5,750 English words and phrases, with Turkish meanings and an iPhone learning widget

How to read the results: synthetic demonstrations, in-sample diagnostics and held-out experiments are labelled separately. Each repository describes its data, validation limits and reproduction requirements; a live demo is not evidence of production readiness.


🛠️ Technical Toolkit

Languages & Querying
R Python SQL SAS

Machine Learning & AI
TensorFlow Keras KNIME
Supervised & Unsupervised Learning · Deep Learning (LSTM · GRU · CNN · Transformer) · Time Series Forecasting · Classification & Regression

Actuarial & Statistical Modeling
GLM (Poisson · Gamma · Logistic) · Chain Ladder & IBNR · Development Triangles · Life & Non-Life Insurance Modeling · Loss Reserving · Survival Analysis · Frequency-Severity Models · Risk Classification

Visualization & Reporting
Power BI R Shiny MS Office

Software & Tooling
TypeScript React Git GitHub Actions
Graph modeling (DAG) · Data validation pipelines · Test-driven development · CI/CD · Local-first applications


GitHub activity

📊 GitHub Activity

GitHub Streak

Repos per Language Most Commit Language

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Learning interests

🌱 Currently Exploring

🧠 AI & Advanced Analytics — Explainable AI (XAI) for insurance decisions · NLP for claims processing · Gradient Boosting (XGBoost, LightGBM) for risk scoring
📊 Actuarial Innovation — Telematics-based pricing · Climate risk modeling · Stochastic reserving · IFRS 17 reporting automation
🔧 Data Engineering — ETL pipeline design · Cloud-based actuarial workflows · Automated reporting systems
📈 Quantitative Finance — Portfolio optimization · Credit risk modeling · Algorithmic trading strategies
🎓 Professional Growth — Advanced actuarial exams · SOA/IFoA pathway exploration · Kaggle competitions


"There is nothing impossible to him who will try."
— Alexander the Great


Open to actuarial analyst, insurance analytics, and quantitative risk roles — let's connect!

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  1. direction-forecasting-bist-bes direction-forecasting-bist-bes Public

    Reproducible research │ ARIMA vs LSTM vs 1D-CNN on BIST and pension funds — majority-class illusion in Turkish markets

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  2. actuarial-analysis-w-shiny-and-glm actuarial-analysis-w-shiny-and-glm Public

    Claim-probability demo · R Shiny + logistic GLM · Reported in-sample AUC 0.828 · Interactive risk scoring

    R

  3. ADAS-Pricing-Paradox ADAS-Pricing-Paradox Public

    Actuarial pricing demo · 100K synthetic policies · Poisson + Gamma GLM · ADAS frequency–severity trade-off

    R

  4. VOL2-ADAS-Pricing-Paradox VOL2-ADAS-Pricing-Paradox Public

    ADAS pricing demo · 200K synthetic policies · GLM interactions, Gini and lift charts · R Shiny + Power BI

    R

  5. MCAware MCAware Public

    MC-AWARE — Deep-learning analysis of majority-class traps and anti-predictive behavior in BIST direction forecasting

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  6. kuurtali kuurtali Public

    My GitHub profile — Actuarial Sciences & Deep Learning Research Portfolio

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