Can Polat, Mustafa Kurban, Erchin Serpedin, Hasan Kurban·arXivPreprint
Defines the deletion floor for materials machine unlearning, showing why post-deletion accuracy must be evaluated against retraining, prediction change, and retained model utility.
Can Polat, Erchin Serpedin, Mustafa Kurban, Hasan Kurban·KDD 2026Conference / workshop
How far can graph generative models extrapolate beyond the size and complexity of their training set? We characterize the extrapolation frontier across multiple architectures.
Mustafa Kurban, Can Polat, Erchin Serpedin, Hasan Kurban·Materials & DesignJournal article
Explainable ML over high-throughput electronic-structure calculations for molecular H₂ adsorption on single-atom-doped TiO₂ nanoparticles — 30 dopants across perpendicular and parallel geometries. A three-stage feature selection plus symbolic regression distills an interpretable model governed by H–H activation, dopant–H₂ distance, and π-electron rearrangement, yielding a mechanism-based screening rule that flags Group 4 and 5 transition metals as the most robust dopants for reversible hydrogen storage.
Mustafa Kurban, Can Polat, Erchin Serpedin, Hasan Kurban·Scientific ReportsJournal article
A descriptor-guided thermodynamic screen of H₂ adsorption on single-atom-doped anatase TiO₂ nanoparticles — DFTB + conceptual DFT descriptors + symbolic regression with leave-one-out cross-validation. Identifies a compact electrophilicity-family expression as the most generalizing structure–property law in a small-data regime, and flags Nb and Zr as the best-balanced dopants for reversible hydrogen storage.
Can Polat, Erchin Serpedin, Mustafa Kurban, Hasan Kurban·arXivPreprint
A benchmark for learning scale-dependent geometric invariances in 3D materials — pushing GNNs and equivariant models past the small-system regime where most papers live.
Can Polat, Hasan Kurban, Mustafa Kurban·Computational Materials ScienceJournal article
An equivariant convolutional network that predicts ground-state eigenvalues of materials directly from electronic shell structures. Outperforms DFT for the same regime at a fraction of the compute, and beats modern neural-wavefunction baselines like PsiFormer and FermiNet on our benchmark.
Can Polat, Erchin Serpedin, Mustafa Kurban, Hasan Kurban·arXivPreprint
A multimodal benchmark for visual learning of atomic interactions. Treats the question of whether foundation models can reason about atomic-scale geometry the way they reason about photographs.
Can Polat, Erchin Serpedin, Mustafa Kurban, Hasan Kurban·Machine Learning Science and TechnologyJournal article
A multiphase, temperature-resolved, multimodal dataset for crystalline materials — the kind of training data that lets vision-style models actually generalize across phase boundaries instead of memorizing one regime.
Can Polat, Hasan Kurban, Erchin Serpedin, Mustafa Kurban·ICML 2025 — DataWorld: Unifying Data Curation Frameworks Across Domains workshopConference / workshop
A human-in-the-loop framework for richer atomic-geometry representations in materials science — moving past the standard graph-of-atoms abstraction.
Can Polat, Mehmet Tunçel, Mustafa Kurban, Erchin Serpedin, Hasan Kurban·ICML 2025 — MAS: Multi-Agent Systems in the Era of Foundation Models workshopConference / workshop
An agentic AI system for explainable quantum chemistry — tools and reasoning glued together so a model can answer chemistry questions with reproducible steps rather than confident guesses.
Can Polat, Hasan Kurban, Erchin Serpedin, Mustafa Kurban·IEEE CPE 2025Conference / workshop
Computer-vision-based prediction of hydrogen adsorption in copper nanoclusters that needs orders of magnitude less data than the chemistry-feature baseline.
Can Polat, Hasan Kurban, Erchin Serpedin, Mustafa Kurban·CVPR 2025 — MM4Mat: Multimodal Learning for Materials Science workshopConference / workshop
A study of when (and where) molecular graph neural networks actually work in materials science — and where the seemingly obvious inductive biases quietly fail.
Can Polat, Hasan Kurban, Erchin Serpedin, Mustafa Kurban·AI for Accelerated Materials Design Workshop, ICLR 2025Conference / workshop
A multi-modal, multi-task benchmark for temperature-dependent crystalline materials. Built to stress-test models on the kind of phase-aware reasoning that real materials work demands but most benchmarks ignore.
Can Polat, Hasan Kurban, Erchin Serpedin, Mustafa Kurban·ACL 2025 — KnowFM: Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models workshopConference / workshop
How well do multimodal foundation models reason about crystals? We stress-test them on tasks that require real crystallographic understanding rather than statistical mimicry.
Can Polat, Mustafa Kurban, Hasan Kurban·Machine Learning: Science and TechnologyJournal article
A multimodal neural network that predicts nanoparticle properties from raw simulation outputs, learning across modalities that usually demand bespoke pipelines.
Can Polat, Gizem Nuran Yapici, Sepehr Elahi, Parviz Elahi·SPIE Photonics Europe 2022Conference / workshop
High-precision, real-time focus detection for laser material processing — the version that pushed me to look at this whole class of problem more carefully.
Can Polat, Gizem N. Yapıcı, Sevim Elahi, Parviz Elahi·CLEO: Applications and TechnologyJournal article
A robust focus-detection pipeline for laser micromanaging that holds up under measurement noise — the deployable counterpart to the Optics journal work, presented at CLEO.