Hi! I'm Meltem.

About. I am a second-year Master of Science (M.Sc.) candidate at Carnegie Mellon University and a Fulbright Scholar. Before joining CMU, I completed one year in TU Munich's Information Technologies for the Built Environment program. My current work focuses on multimodal understanding of the existing building stock and partially observable, sparse data.

Say hi. msahinoz[at]andrew[dot]cmu[dot]edu

Contact. Email  /  Linkedin  /  Github

Links. ig  /  @oncekahvem  /  @iaminarchitecture  /  Youtube

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Side projects

Small experiments and ongoing personal work. An attempt to learn in public.

@oncekahvem

Notes on coffee & food

@odtudeyemek

An undergrad's campus food guide

Travel log

A map of places I've visited

Projects

Works that span architecture, energy, and technology in the built environment.

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Essential MVC Programming, CMU
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BLUEPRINT GREEN DESIGN is an interactive, free, and lightweight app for anyone who wants to create and visualize simple building plans in 2D, calculate and visualize their heat loss, and get energy analysis for each component to make informed efficiency decisions.

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Residential Energy Retrofit
Environmental Systems & Climate - CMU, Fall 2024

A net-zero retrofit study for a single-family home in Puchheim, Bavaria. Combines envelope-driven heat-loss modeling, passive conditioning strategies, and RemRATE simulation to chart a staged path toward net-zero annual energy.

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ASHRAE Great Energy Predictor III
Applied Machine Learning - CMU, Spring 2025
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Hourly building energy-use forecasting on the ASHRAE Great Energy Predictor III dataset. Engineered temporal, lag, and weather features and trained gradient-boosted models evaluated by RMSLE.

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#IAMINARCHITECTURE
Architectural Design Thinking, TUM Venture Lab
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A platform concept addressing the communication and retention gap in the AEC industry, combining forums, job boards, firm reviews, and learning resources so practitioners and students can share knowledge across studios.