Bilge Ince is a machine learning engineer at EDB, where she works at the intersection of AI and PostgreSQL. Her work focuses on semantic retrieval and text-to-SQL, helping AI systems understand and query enterprise data reliably in production. She has taken part as a guest in the ISO/IEC SQL standards working group (WG3), where she contributed on model inference functions in SQL, and she holds patents and publications in AI research. Bilge is an organizer of LatentShift.ai, a technical conference for engineers shipping AI in production. She is also pursuing a PhD, is active in the PostgreSQL and open source communities, and advocates for equity in tech for underrepresented groups.