Sina Atalay

Hello World,

I'm Sina Atalay.

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

Projects

• Academa (2025 - present)

  Exploring how LLM and TTS technologies will revolutionize education

• RenderCV (2023 - present)

  Open-source CV/resume generator for academics and engineers (14,000+ GitHub stars, 140,000+ PyPI downloads)

• Teaching on YouTube (2020)

  Taught Engineering Dynamics on YouTube (800,000+ views, 60,000+ hours of watch time)

Research

• PhD Student at Princeton University (2024 - 2025)

  Computational research on superconducting magnets for fusion energy; paused studies in 2025 to found Academa

• Research Intern at CERN (2023 - 2024)

  14 months of computational research on superconducting magnets; co-authored 3 papers

• Undergraduate at Boğaziçi University (2017 - 2023)

  Studied Mechanical Engineering in Istanbul