Students
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Abdul Basit AneesMS Student BS:Bilkent University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2020 |
My research interests lie in the area of Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision. |
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Ahmed Imam ShahMS Student BS: Bilkent University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2020 |
Computer Vision and Machine Learning |
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Ahmet Canberk BaykalMS Student BS: Bilkent University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2020 |
The research areas I am interested in are Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing. Specifically, I am working on Neural Rendering and Image Editing. |
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Akın YılmazMS Student BS: Koç University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering & Physics |
I am working as a Data Scientist at Tarentum. My research interests focus on learned video compression.
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Alara ZindancıoğluMS Student (Data Science) BS: Koç University, Physics & Philosophy, 2019 |
Explainable Artificial Intelligence, Formative Feedback Interfaces, Generative Adversarial Networks |
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Ali SafayaPhD Student BS: Sakarya University, Computer Engineering, 2019 |
I am doing a direct PhD with Prof. Dr. Deniz Yüret. I like language models (all of them, not just transformers). I am interested in computational linguistics. I am working in parallel on several tracks of NLP, including, but not limited to language modeling, information extraction, and conversational AI |
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Alireza MadaniMS Student BS: K.N.Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, Mechanical Engineering, 2020 |
Current Research: Physical Human-Robot Interaction, Machine Learning, Admittance Control, Augmented Reality.
Areas of Interest: Tele-Surgery, MIS, Legged Locomotion (Biped and Quadruped), Advanced Dynamic Systems Control, Instrumentation and Measurement Systems, SLAM
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Alpay SabuncuogluPhD Student BS: Koç University, Computer Engineering, 2018 |
I am interested in developing novel, affordable, and accessible learning environments for early-years in education. In particular, I am effectively deploying state-of-the-art AI models to mobile phones to increase the usability of these devices in the classroom. |
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Barış Batuhan TopalMS Student BS: Sabancı University, Computer Science and Engineering, 2020 |
I am interested in understanding the textual and visual information on comics by using domain adaptation and transfer learning techniques. Currently, I am focused on detecting faces and recognizing facial expressions in comics by adapting the best performing models trained on real-life images. |
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Batuhan ÖzyurtMS Student BS: Boğaziçi University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2020 |
Natural Language Processing – Machine Reading Comprehension |
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Bekir Berker TürkerPhD Student BS: Electronics and Communication Eng., Izmir Institute of Technology Senior Data Scientist Hepsiburada.com |
My research interests include human-computer interaction, affective computing, social robotics and audio-visual signal processing. Currently researching on engagement in Human-Robot (physical, conversational) Interaction. |
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Berk GülerMS Student BS: Istanbul Technical University, Control and Automation Engineering, 2020 |
I am going to work on physical human-robot interaction and learning human intention under the supervision of Prof. Çağatay Başdoğan. |
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Burak Hayati MusluMS Student BS: Bilkent University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2020 |
My research interest is Backchannel Feedback Modeling for Human-Robot Interaction. |
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Can KucuksozenMS Student BS: Bilkent University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2017 |
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Cansu KorkmazMS Student BS: Koc University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2019 |
I am interested in deep learning methods used image processing and computer vision. Specifically, I have been working on the efficiency and large-scale analysis of image super-resolution methods. |
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Çağan Selim ÇobanMS Student BS: Bilkent University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2019 |
I am interested in video object detection with temporal supervision. In particular, I focus on learning object-based representations in a video and performing joint detection and tracking. |
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Çağhan KöksalMS Student BS: Sabanci University, Computer Science and Engineering, 2020 |
Computer Vision and NLP |
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Damla OvekPhD Student BS: Koç University, Molecular Biology & Genetics, Computer Engineering, 2017 |
I am interested in computational biology and bioinformatics. In particular, I focus on protein-protein interactions, and the computational prediction of interfaces, hot spots, and hot regions using machine learning approaches. |
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Ege Onat ÖzsüerMS Student BS: Koç University, Computer Engineering, 2020 |
Computer Vision |
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Endi MerkuriMS Student BS: Bilkent University, Computer Engineering, 2020 |
My research interests include Parallel and Distributed Computing. Currently, I am working on new architectures for AI accelerators. |
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Ercan Alp SerteliMS Student BS: Istanbul Technical University, Computer Engineering, 2017. |
I am interested in representation learning and environment modeling in the robotics setting using 3D point cloud vision. I currently focus on goal modeling and extracting efficient and transferable features for the purpose of learning from demonstration in robotics. |
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Ezgi DedeMS Student BS: Middle East Technical University, Psychology, 2019 |
Sketch-based Interfaces Human-Computer Interaction |
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Fareed QararyahPhD Student MS: Koç University, Computer Science and Engineering, 2020 BS: Palestine Technical University Kadoorie (PTUK), Computer Engineering, 2016 |
I am interested in optimizing the performance and memory consumption of parallel training of DL models, and the enablement of training large models that do not fit into a single processing element memory. In particular, I focus on data flow graph representation of the models. |
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Farzin NegahbaniMS Student BS: Shiraz University, Computer Hardware Engineering, 2018 |
My research interests lie in where Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Biomedical Engineering meet. Currently, I’m working on a transfer learning approach for robot learning from demonstration. |
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Gökçe İymenMS Student Data Science BS: Middle East Technical University, Industrial Engineering, 2019 |
I am interested in deep learning applications. I am currently working on the generative models used for audio generation. My focus will be on obtaining audio-based formative feedback for affective speech. |
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Gürkan SoykanMS Student BS: Sabanci University, Computer Science and Engineering, 2018 |
I am interested in interplay between language and vision. Accordingly, my current focus is to be able to come up with deep learning models that could understand the visual language of comics. |
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Gonca BakarPhD Student MS: Koc University, Electrical & Electronics Engineering, 2018 BS: Bogazici University, Electrical & Electronics Engineering, 2015 |
I am working at Tarentum. My interests are deep learning and image processing/compression. |
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Hilal GüvenMS Student BS: Bogazici University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2020 |
Video Restoration and Compression using Deep Learning |
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Ibrahim ShoerPhD Student MS: Istanbul Medipol University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Cyber Systems, 2020 BS: Alexandria University, Communication and Electronics, 2016 |
Machine Learning |
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Ilker KesenBS: Istanbul Technical University, Electronics and Communication Engineering, 2016 |
My current research focus is to devise novel deep learning solutions for visually grounded language learning problems such as image segmentation from referring expressions and text-conditional image synthesis. |
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Kaan AkanMS Student BS: Middle East Technical University, 2020 |
My research interests include machine learning and computer vision, with special interest in video understanding, video prediction, video object detection and tracking. |
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Mustafa Orkun AcarMS Student BS: METU, Computer Engineering, 2016 |
Efficient Deep Learning on Sparse Data |
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Müge KuralMS Student BS: Koç University, Computer Engineering, 2016 |
My research interests focus on graph-based semantic parsing of natural language. Currently I work on sequence-graph transductions for various semantic representation schemes using supervised and unsupervised approaches. |
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Nasrin RahimiPhD Student MS: University of Tabriz, Iran, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2016 BS: University of Tabriz, Iran, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2014 |
I am interested in Image and Video Processing and Computer Vision using deep neural networks. In particular, I am focused on video restoration tasks such as dynamic scene deblurring/super-resolution (spatio-temporally varying degradation models). |
Ogun KırmemişPhD Student
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I am a Python instructor at Koç University and working on “1001” project. My interests are deep learning and image processing/compression. |
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Onur Berk ToreMS Student BS: Yeditepe University, Computer Science, 2018 |
My research interests lie between Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. I specifically focus on applying reinforcement learning and probabilistic models to learn from demonstration (lfd) problems. |
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Onur KeleşPhD Student MS: Boğaziçi University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2019 BS: Boğaziçi University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2016 |
I am currently working on image restoration (denoising, deblurring) and single-image super-resolution. |
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Pouya Pourakbarian NiazMS Student BS: University of Tabriz, Iran, Mechanical Engineering, 2016 |
My research focuses on using machine learning for pHRI, and my personal interests include human-robot interaction and collaboration incorporating machine learning, learning human intention from demonstration, long-time iterative learning, reinforcement learning of human intention, and so forth.
I would love to collaborate in research conducted in areas concerning robotics, machine learning, and computer vision.
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Ronglei JiPhD Student MS: Istanbul Technical University, Communication Systems, 2019 |
I’m working on Deinterlacing and Video Frame Interpolation using Deep Learning. |
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Samet DemirPhD Student BS: Boğaziçi University, Computer Engineering, August 2020 |
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Seher ÖzçelikPhD Student MS: Koç University, Mathematics, 2006 BS: ITU Physics Eng. & Mathematics Eng. Double Major, 2003
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I am interested in biologically plausible neural networks. We are focusing on local learning rules, as happens in the brain, in supervised and unsupervised learning methods |
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Waris GillMS Student BS: LUMS, Lahore Pakistan, 2017 |
Systems and A.I. |