If you want to get to know me better or contact me, kindly use my website! I am very open to all sorts of collaborations and questions. :)
name: Ali Çağan Kaya
located_in: Ankara, Türkiye
website: https://alicagankaya.com
current_role: Research Intern & Undergraduate Student
education:
[
"B.A. in English Linguistics (in progress) – Hacettepe University",
"Research Intern – Ankara University Brain Research Center (AU-BRC)",
"Researcher – Neuroscience and Neurotechnology Center of Excellence (NÖROM)",
]
affiliations:
[
"President – Hacettepe University Linguistics Community (2025–2026)",
]
fields_of_interests:
[
"Phonetics & Phonology",
"Cognitive Linguistics",
"Computational Linguistics",
"Psycholinguistics",
"Corpus Linguistics",
"Neurolinguistics",
]
technical_background:
[
"Developer of VowSpace (vowel formant analysis & visualization tool)",
"Developer of Praanscribe (automatic transcription & TextGrid generation tool)",
"Experience with Python, R, Web",
"Experimental design and alayses in phonetics & psycholinguistics",
"Data preprocessing & statistical modeling (LMMs, GAMMs, accuracy/RT analysis)",
]
currently_learning: ["Statistics for pupillometry & eye-tracking"]
hobbies: ["Skateboarding", "Playing the guitar", "Cats", "Photography"]