Hello World,

I’m Sina Atalay.

This is a place to store what I’ve worked on and my thoughts.

Projects

Academa (2025 - present)

AI + education
RenderCV (2023 - present)

Tool for version-controlling resumes as source code; 2,500+ GitHub stars, 70,000+ PyPI downloads
Teaching on YouTube (2020)

Taught Dynamics on YouTube; 400,000+ views and 50,000+ hours watched

Research

PhD: Princeton University (2024 - 2025)

Researched superconducting magnets for fusion energy; paused studies in 2025 to found Academa
Internship: CERN (2023 - 2024)

14-month computational research on superconducting magnets using Python and C++; co-author of 3 papers
BS: Boğaziçi University (2017 - 2023)

Earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, in Istanbul

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