mehmet can yavuz, ph.d. / vision, sound and language
Education
Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering
Sabancı University | Istanbul | 2023
Transfer from Koç University | Istanbul | 2019
M.Sc. Physics
Boğaziçi University | Istanbul | 2016
B.Sc. Electrics and Electronics Engineering & Physics
Işık University | Istanbul | 2010
Erasmus Exchange - Konstanz University | Germany | 2008
About Me
I am a machine learning researcher. My interests are self- weakly- and semi- supervised deep learning methods and its application in Computer Vision, Biometrics and Biomedical Engineering.
Additionally, I am interested in computational criticism, especially analyses of literary texts using machine learning methods.
Location: Sabancı University, Istanbul.
Awards, Grants and Scholarships
Awards: Işık University - Graduation 2nd Rank both on Physics and Engineering
Grants: Erasmus Exchange - Grant for 12 Months - 6000€. ICPR 2022 Travel Stipends - Grant for 1000$.
Scholarships: Sabancı University, Koç University and Işık University - Tuition Waiver + Accommodation
Journal & Conference Roles
Reviewer: Journal of Neural Networks, Elsevier; Digital Scholarship in the Humanities - Oxford University Press; Journal of Interactive Technology and Smart Education, Emerald Publishing; The 29th and 30th IEEE Conference on Signal Processing and Communications Applications. Program Committee Member: The 1st International Workshop on Social Communication and Information Activity in Digital Humanities
Sectoral Experience
Founder - Arky Media Analytics Lab. - Media Production Company | Istanbul | Jan'21-now
Producer / Director / Author / Researcher
We focus on developing AI algorithms for scriptwriting and possible application of machine learning in motion picture analytics.
Machine Learning R&D Engineer - An AI Start-up | California | Jan'22-June'22
Computer Science and Engineering Department
We focus on developing novel visual and textual recognition and generation systems based on state-of-the-art machine learning solutions.
Academic Experience
Machine Learning Researcher - [Project Financed] Koç University | May'22-Aug'22
Computer Science and Engineering Department
Private Sector Project @ Intelligent User Interfaces Laboratory - We develop novel neuroscience related computer vision applications with state-of-the-art machine learning solutions.
Machine Learning Researcher - Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine & Sabancı University | Istanbul | Oct'20-April'21
Radiology Department & Computer Science and Engineering Department
Turkish Ministry of Industry and Technology / The Development Agencies Project @ Cerrahpasa School of Medicine and Sabancı University - As a team of researchers, medical doctors and ML researchers, our aim is to detect Covid19 patients from CT scans by using Deep Neural Networks in a fast and reliable manner.
Machine Learning Researcher [Project Financed] Sabancı University | Istanbul | June'20-July'22
Computer Science and Engineering Department
TUBITAK Research Project @ Computer Science and Engineering Department. The project is mainly on soft biometrics, multi-label attributes of face. My research is to find new face attributes on an image set. This means zero-shot, one-shot or few shot learning. Metric Learning is in focus.
Data Analyst [Project Financed] Koç University | Istanbul | Oct'16-Apr'18
Economic History Department
European Research Council (ERC) Project @ History Department - The project is mainly on economic history of Turkey and Balkans from 1850 to 2000 in digital humanities form. I am responsible from developing machine learning algorithms for OCR techniques and application of statistical learning tools.
Machine Learning Researcher [Project Financed] Boğaziçi University | Istanbul | June'12-June'13
Physics Department
Scientific Research Project (BAP) @ Physics Department - We mostly focused on machine learning algorithms to analyze literary texts, for instance whether we can catch antagonism by just looking at the word statistics of Shakespearean tragedies.