
Eda Bayram, PhD
About
I am an AI Researcher in the Smart Network Lab (SNI) at the Huawei Ireland Research Center in Dublin .
Under the Network Digital Twin team, I research and engineer efficient and scalable machine learning models for simulation of telecom networks.
Previously, I worked at Accenture Labs in Dublin,
focusing on graph machine learning for biomedical knowledge discovery, where I contributed development of link prediction and question answering systems.
I hold a PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL),
where my doctoral research centered on representation learning for multi-relational data.
More recently, I pursued my interest in Cognitive Science with a Master’s degree from University College Dublin (UCD).
This program offered me the chance to engage with a wide range of cognitive theories under the guidance of Prof. Fred Cummins and
Prof. Keith Wilson.
For my graduation project, I conducted a comparative study on the entanglement of perception and action—examining how predictive processing,
as advanced by Andy Clark, contrasts with the enactive theory of cognition
advocated by Ezequiel Di Paolo, with a particular focus on proactive modes of perception and action.
I am influenced by the illusionist stance in the theory of consciousness,
most notably articulated by Keith Frankish.
I am also a fan of the podcast series Mind Chat
made by Philip Goff
and Keith Frankish.
Interests in ML
- World Models
- Physics-informed Neural Nets
- Physical AI
- Knowledge Graph Reasoning
- Graph Represenation Learning
Interests in CogSci
- Philosophy of AI
- Philosophy of Physics
- Conciousness
- Metaphysics
- Predictive Processing
- Enactivism
Education
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MSc in CogSci, 2025
University College Dublin, Ireland -
PhD in CS, 2021
EPFL, Switzerland -
MSc in EEE, 2017
Middle East Technical University, Turkey -
BSc in EEE, 2013
Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Essays in Philosophy and Cognitive Science
- Philosophy of Time
(March, 2025) Saving General Presentism - Embodied Social Cognitive Neuroscience
(December, 2024) Neural Dissociations between Perspective Transformation and Mentalizing - Concsiousness
(May, 2024) Conciousness: That Feeling Hanging in the air
(March, 2024) Distinction between Phenomenal and Access Consciousness - Neuropsychology
(October, 2023) A Game of Perception and Action: Do we have two distinct visual systems? - Cognitive Science
(December, 2023) Interdisciplinarity and Pluralism in Cognitive Science
(October, 2023) Does the enlightement of Cognitive Science rely on letting go of the concept of individual mind?
Papers in Machine Learning
ℹ️ Please check my Google Scholar page to see full and updated list of publications.Bayram, Eda. "Propagation on multi-relational graphs for node regression." International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021.
Bayram, Eda, Alberto García-Durán, and Robert West. "Node attribute completion in knowledge graphs with multi-relational propagation." ICASSP 2021-2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). IEEE, 2021.
Patents
Adrianna Janik, Eda Bayram, Alberto Bernardi "Explanations for Knowledge Graph Embedding Models Based on Game Theory", Italian Patent Application 102023000017535 filed in August 23, 2023

Blog Posts
- Cognitive Science
(March, 2025) Enactive Social Cognition against the Great Gatsby - Machine Learning
(August, 2023) Explainability in Graph Machine Learning