Curriculum vitae

Education, research experience, and academic focus.

Download CV PDF · November 2024

Profile

Summary

My work spans representation learning, biometrics, object detection, OCR, image captioning, geo-localization, and medical image analysis.

Professional path

Experience

Jun 2021 — Present

Researcher

The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK)

Conducting advanced research in computer vision and leading work across biometrics, object detection, image captioning, and OCR. Developing efficient models with strong generalization and practical throughput.

Aug 2020 — Mar 2021

Computer Vision Intern

ID3 Software

Contributed to an airport ground-services monitoring system using object detection and tracking, work that also formed the basis of the bachelor’s thesis.

Jun 2019 — Aug 2019

Machine Learning Intern

Vakıf Emeklilik ve Hayat

Analyzed customer churn in the private pension system and developed predictive models to support retention analysis.

Academic training

Education

2024 — Present

PhD, Computer Engineering

Yıldız Technical University · GPA 3.86 / 4.00

Thesis focus: person re-identification.

2016 — 2021

BSc, Computer Engineering

Yıldız Technical University · High Honour · GPA 3.54 / 4.00

Spring 2020

Erasmus+ Exchange

Czech Technical University in Prague

Exchange period interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Research expertise

Focus areas

Robust representation learningCross-domain evaluation, adaptation, metric learning
BiometricsPerson re-identification, datasets, transformers
Vision & languageScene text recognition, Turkish image captioning
Computational pathologyMitosis detection, nuclei segmentation
Person re-identification experiment