Hello! I'm Deniz 👋
I lead reinforcement learning at Amazon AGI Labs, working on our browser agent, Nova Act. Over the past 1.5 years, I helped take Nova Act from zero to a full AWS service — now powering Alexa+ for 1M+ users and serving as a flagship product for Amazon's AI ambitions. I built out and led the RL scaling team to ship a SOTA browser agent for the AWS launch. Prior, I ran multimodal post-training for our research preview. Before Amazon, I was at Adept, which exited to Amazon. I graduated from Carnegie Mellon, where I taught Intro to CS to 1000+ students, had a brief stint working Race Strategy for Mercedes F1 team, and started a company. I love running through walls, making things happen, and telling good stories along the way :)
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Selected Publications
(Blog) Introducing Amazon Nova Act
Public research preview launch of Nova Act, allowing developers to build agents that can reliably take action in web browsers. (March 31, 2025)
(Blog) Building AI agents that actually work: Introducing Nova Act as a service
Nova Act is now generally available as a service on AWS for building and managing highly reliable AI agents at scale. Powered by a custom Nova 2 Lite model, Nova Act has state-of-the-art browser-use capabilities—performing better than other models on benchmarks like WorkArena L1 and REAL Bench V1 and V2. (December 2, 2025)
