PrincipAI
Excels in sequential decision making and time series prediction
Helping businesses solve their real-world problems.
PrincipAI
Principles of Applied Artificial Intelligence
Data-Driven Financial Decision Making
PrincipAI is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) company that excels in sequential decision making and time series prediction, and helps businesses solve their real-world problems. Develop and deliver beyond state-of-the-art AI based software solutions for customer’s financial trading operations to automate and enhance their financial experience. Check our financial news aggregator and portfolio tracking platform CoinTenet that utilizes the state-of-the-art AI models.
NLP Solutions
Develop advanced NLP solutions to transform vast amounts of textual data into actionable insights. Using state-of-the-art deep learning techniques, we specialize in creating tailored NLP models for tasks such as summarization, topic extraction, sentiment analysis, and event detection. Our expertise in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enables precise information retrieval from extensive text sources, while our custom chatbot solutions ensure seamless and dynamic customer interaction. Additionally, we fine-tune language models to align with industry-specific needs, providing clients with powerful, domain-focused insights—whether for cryptocurrency, stock analysis, education, or broader business applications.
AI Solutions
We provide companies with scalable artificial intelligence systems built using machine learning, advanced graph neural networks, and big data, available as software-as-a-service (SaaS) or on-premise solutions. Our solutions are tailored to handle complex data challenges, delivering actionable insights that drive smarter decision-making and unlock new growth opportunities. With a focus on adaptability and seamless integration, we empower businesses to leverage AI technology that evolves with their needs and scales effortlessly as they grow.
Our Vision
PrincipAI provides cutting-edge AI solutions tailored to meet the unique needs of diverse industries, with a strong focus on advancing personalization in EdTech and FinTech. Leveraging our expertise in natural language processing for both English and Turkish, we deliver customized AI-driven chatbots, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) applications, seamless integrations with large language models, and recommendation engines. Our team also specializes in fine-tuning language models to support specific client goals, enabling highly personalized and impactful user experiences. Committed to innovation, PrincipAI develops adaptable, next-generation AI technologies that evolve with our clients’ needs, empowering organizations across all sectors to harness the power of AI.
Our Services
PaiTune: Enhance Your AI with Our Fine-Tuning Solution.
PaiTune is our LLM Fine-Tuning solution.- Domain-Specific Adaptation
- State-of-the-Art Performance
- Efficient Training
Key Features:
- Improved Accuracy
- Cost Savings
- Scalability
Benefits:
PaiRAG: Revolutionize Your AI with Our Retrieval-Augmented Generation Solution
PaiRAG is our Retrieval-Augmented Generation Solution.- Enhanced Context Understanding
- Accurate Information Retrieval
- Response Generation from Local Information Sources
- Seamless Integration
Key Features:
- Improved Response Quality
- Query Processing
- Response Generation
Benefits:
CoinTenet
CoinTenet is our financial news aggregator and portfolio tracking platform that utilizes the state-of-the-art AI models.- Related News: News that are recommended by Cointenet's news recommender system
- Categorized News: Read important news summarized and categorized by Cointenet's AI-based NLP system
- Follow coin prices in Turkish Lira and other cryptocurrency units
ReCePAI
ReCePAI is our recommendation engine, that is developed specifically for e-commerce web and mobile applications, helps companies to improve customer engagement and increase customer satisfaction via state-of-the-art AI techniques.NB-FT
NB-FT is our financial forecasting and trading platform that incorporates the state-of-the-art AI models.- PrincipAI’s novel product, NB-FT, which was initially funded by TÜBİTAK, is a one of its kind automated financial price and movement prediction platform. We have been gathering and analyzing large amounts of numerical and textual data both in English and Turkish languages to generate trading signals. NB-FT combines state of the art machine learning well-engineered models to make sequential financial trading decisions and take actions accordingly without human intervention so to maximize the long-term financial gain.
- PrincipAI develops language understanding models to perform emotion and sentiment analysis of natural language data used for various purposes.
- As PrincipAI, we build and deploy well engineered AI models that are customized to our customers’ needs. This way, we help them to improve their business processes and reduce costs through an end-to-end integration together with the power of cloud computing at the back office.
- PrincipAI provides consultancy on data science related projects such as churn analysis, customer segmentation, new product valuation, building recommendation systems.
- PrincipAI augments the machine learning approaches with social network analytics to exploit information obtained from network structure.
Our Team
Ahmet Onur Durahim, PhD
Founder and CEO, PrincipAI
Ahmet Onur Durahim is currently wroking as the CEO and Head of AI Research at Principai. He served as a professor in the department of Management (and Business) Information Systems (MIS) at Boğaziçi University between 2014-2023. He has been working as a part-time lecturer at Sabancı University since 2015. He has been teaching classes on AI, NLP, social network analysis, and data science. His research interests include artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP), deep reinforcement learning, data science and social network analytics. He holds double major degrees from Boğaziçi University in Civil and Industrial Engineering. He earned his PhD. in 2012 from Sabancı University in Computer Science and Engineering. Prior to joining academy as a professor, he had a professional working experience during 2007-2013 at Solvoyo Co. as consulting manager and software architect. He is currently engaged in both software development and consulting in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), NLP, and big data analytics. He is also an active speaker and gives talks on AI at reputable conferences and national TV channels. Dr. Durahim is a professional rower who was a former national rowing champion and represented Turkish national team in European Rowing Championship.
Fatih Fidan
Financial Data Scientist, PrincipAI
After graduating from Istanbul University, Department of Industrial Engineering, Fatih Fidan completed his master's degree in Philosophy at Yıldız Technical University. His research interests include technical indicator analysis and developing forecasting approaches for the cryptocurrency market. He is currently working as a financial data scientist at PrincipAI.
Yiğit Ali Savaş
Data Scientist, PrincipAI
Ali Savas has graduated from McGill University in Montreal, with double majors in Computer Science and Linguistics. He has joined PrincipAI as an AI Engineer in order to prolong his interest and knowledge in computational linguistics and large language models (LLMs). As a part of the team, he will be working on language models and develop financial algorithms. In order to advance in interdisciplinary applications and explore unknown thresholds, he puts his focus on growth and improvement to the core. He has participated in regional cycling races with McGill's cycling team, and pursues cycling on an amateur level. He works as a data scientist and software developer at PrincipAI and currently develops machine learning models for PrincipAI financial assistant.
Ismail Fatih Yıldırım
DevOps Consultant to PrincipAI
Ismail Fatih Yıldırım received both BSc. and MSc. degrees from Sabancı University in Computer Science and Engineering. Prior to helping PrincipAI as a DevOps consultant, he had a professional working experience at Solvoyo Co. as a team leader and at Sestek as a software architect.
Büşra Gökceli
Data Scientist | Software Engineer, PrincipAI Alumni
Büşra Gökceli is graduated from Yıldız Technical University, Mathematical Engineering in 2018. After working as a full stack developer at Softtech for 3 years, she worked as a software developer and data scientist at PrincipAI.
Özcan Gündes
Senior Data Scientist | NLP Researcher, PrincipAI Alumni
Gundes is MA student in Management Information Systems department in Boğaziçi University and actively studying in Natural Language Processing field. His research interests include artificial intelligence, data science, machine learning and natural language processing. He worked as Senior Data Scientist and NLP Researcher at PrincipAI. Prior to PrincipAI, he graduated from Industrial Engineering department in Middle East Technical University in 2016 and then, he had worked for one of the biggest corporations in Turkey for 3 years as innovation and business development specialist in CEO’s team. After that, he switched the career path to the data science and starting to work as a data scientist in the same company. He believes that every day, he should be more equipped than previous day. Continuous learning and sharing experience are the motivation boosters for him.
Eray Dertsiz
Junior UI Developer, PrincipAI Alumni
Eray has just graduated from the Management Information Systems of Boğaziçi University. At PrincipAI, he participated in the development of mobile and web user interfaces for the products of the company. Also, his main area in software is game development and he has worked in a game company named Narcade Technology prior to PrincipAI. He is always interested in learning and practicing new technologies on software development.