Yusuf Celik
Posted on August 09, 2021Yusuf Celik is the lead data scientist for the SHARIAsource Courts and Canons Project, 2020-2021. He is currently an adjunct lecturer and researcher at the University of Utrecht.
His research is on Philosophical Hermeneutics in the Islamic tradition and Continental philosophy. Yusuf Celik has also been active for years in the field of software engineering. As an independent contractor he has worked for different high profile clients in the capacity of lead developer, consultant, code coach, and Scrum master. He is currently exploring ways to synthesize insights from Philosophical Hermeneutics with new technologies such as Deep Learning.
Celik received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2020 for his dissertation on contemporary Qur’an hermeneutics in Turkey.