Team

Two Friends Building Academa.

We’ve been close friends since undergrad. Now we’re building Academa together.

Academa co-founders Sina Atalay and Abdullah Geduk together.

Sina Atalay

Princeton PhD student on leave. Previously taught engineering on YouTube (890,000+ views and 74,000+ hours of watch time), built RenderCV (17,000+ stars on GitHub and 930,000+ downloads on PyPI) and researched at CERN as a technical student.

Abdullah Geduk

Penn State PhD student. Ranked in the top 0.03% in Turkey's national university entrance exam. Has 200+ hours of one-on-one tutoring and TA experience. A computational scientist burning 20M+ core-hours on supercomputers for fluid mechanics simulations.

Sina and Abdullah standing behind their guitar tuner with DC motors.

The First Thing We Built Together

A Guitar Tuner with DC Motors

Built while we were undergraduates.

Watch the project video