Work Experience
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, (August 2013-present),
Postdoctoral Researcher at Section for Biomedical Image Analysis,
Analysis of the effects of facial expressions on brain conditions for clinical research studies using computer vision algorithms.
University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA, (2008-2013),
Research Assistant at Center for Research in Computer Vision,
Worked on a variety of topics of computer vision and medical imaging, published papers in journals and conferences,
designed algorithms with state-of-the-art performance.
Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX, USA, (May 2012-Aug 2012),
Summer Intern at Embedded Vision Branch, DSP R&D Center,
Design and evaluation of stereo vision algorithms in Matlab/C for surveillance applications.
Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi (METU), Ankara, Turkey, (2007-2008),
Research Assistant at Multimedia Research Laboratory,
Object detection/tracking on a real-time stand-alone system (TI DM642 DSP EVM with a PTZ camera).
Karel Electronics, Ankara, Turkey, (2005-2006),
R&D Engineer in Telecommunications Technologies Section,
Embedded software/hardware design and development of pbx system peripherals and phones.
Mentoring/Teaching
CAP5415 Computer Vision
This course covers the fundamental topics of computer vision, and introduces approaches for computer vision research.
(course webpage)
Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)
The goal of this program is to encourage talented students to pursue graduate studies and realize their full potential in this regard.
(REU webpage)