Serhan Yilmaz

Co-Founder at Magnos — the AI operating system for financial intelligence. Based in New York.

Before Magnos, AI research and engineering across:

• Carnegie Mellon — multi-agent systems and structured LLM workflows.
• KTH— conversational turn-taking on Furhat humanoid robots, with Prof. Gabriel Skantze.
• EPFL— privacy-preserving federated machine-learning infrastructure.
• TU Darmstadt— agentic system for clinical psychological assessment of Ukrainian refugees, deployed at Charité Berlin.

I'm a co-author of INCLUDE, a multilingual language understanding benchmark accepted at ICLR 2025 (Spotlight), and contributed to Project Aya by Cohere for AI, building LLM- and VLM-powered data pipelines to curate evaluation data across diverse languages.

Computer Science at Sabancı University. Founder of kAi Sabancı — grew the AI club to 600+ members and secured founding-member status in the NVIDIA Student Network. Earlier still, research on secure server architecture at Boston University.