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Mustafa Abdullah Hakkoz is an AI strategist, PhD researcher, and technology entrepreneur based in Istanbul. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Whitehand AI, an independent research lab and startup factory created to challenge the conventional AI industry playbook. Rather than pursuing hype, scale, or familiar applications for their own sake, Whitehand AI brings together purpose-driven researchers and engineers to turn original, scientifically grounded ideas into ventures with meaningful commercial and societal impact. Its first venture is Bigword AI, where Mustafa also serves as Co-Founder and CTO, developing population-scale social digital twins with the disruptive potential to fundamentally transform market and public-opinion research. His academic work at Istanbul Technical University focuses on agentic systems and reasoning in AI. Across his research and entrepreneurial work, Mustafa is driven by the belief that AI should be judged not by the scale of its promises, but by the lasting value it creates.
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