CV

Education

• B.S. in Computer Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, 2023

Research experience

• Summer 2023: Research Intern
  • Aalto University
  • Worked on applying Graph Neural Networks for color recommendation and assignment for graphical designs and user interfaces.
  • Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Antti Oulasvirta
• Mar 2022 - Mar 2024: Undergraduate Researcher
  • Istanbul Technical University
  • Working on sub-seasonal forecasting and applying deep learning methods to forecasts.
  • Regression model calibration, bayesian models
  • One paper at Environmental Data Science journal
  • One paper at ICLR 2024 Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning
  • Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Gözde Ünal
• Winter 2022, Aug 2021: Research Intern
  • Brain and Signal Research & Analysis Laboratory
  • Coded (BGSR)[https://github.com/basiralab/BGSR-PY] (Brain Graph Super-Resolution) method
  • Worked on increasing the accuracy of a graph neural network architecture by applying different training strategies for diverse datasets
  • Researched and learned contrastive learning strategies
  • Supervisor: Dr. Islem Rekik

Industry experience

• Aug 2022: Robotics Intern
  • delivers.ai – a company dedicated to engineer mobile delivery robots
  • Developed and deployed a PointCloud filtering and fusion pipeline using PCL library.
  • Worked with ROS, C++ and depth cameras, conducted tests.
• Aug - Sep 2021: Software Engineering Intern
  • IBM
  • Coded automated usage reports for CPU, memory and disk using python and pyspark. Dealt with big data.

Volunteer experience

• May - Oct 2022: Software Team Co-Leader
  • Software team leader responsible from the development of drive system.

  • Responsibilities include: autonomous navigation, controls, localization, mapping.

  • Placed 3rd in European Rover Challenge 2022 🥉
  • Placed 1st in Presentation Task in ERC 2022🥇
• Jul - May 2022: Software Team Member
  • Built an autonomous Mars rover for University Rover Challenge in the US and European Rover Challenge in Poland with a different design and software architecture each year.
  • Working on autonomous navigation of rover. Using sensors such as GPS, IMU, LiDAR, depth cameras on the robot.
  • Testing navigation algorithms on simulation in gazebo environment created for the rover.
  • Customizing navigation stacks such as robot_navigation and ROS navigation stack and testing on the rover.
  • Designing and writing the state machine for autonomous navigation tasks.
  • Worked on estimating the world coordinates of small objects using depth cameras and object detection methods such as YOLO with ROS. Worked with NVIDIA Jetson AGX.
  • Managing GitHub of the organization.

  • Worked on PID tuning.

  • Placed 2nd at European Rover Challenge in Poland among 58 teams 🥈