I’m Sina Atalay.
This is a place to store what I’ve worked on and my thoughts.
Academa (2025 - present)
I have a question: Is there sufficient innovation happening in the education industry?
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
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