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Vural Erdogan

Computer Vision Engineer, Data Scientist
Kensington

Summary

+5 years experienced Machine Learning Specialist familiar with gathering, cleaning and organizing data for use by technical and non-technical personnel. Advanced understanding of statistical, algebraic and other analytical techniques. Experienced contractor/consultant seeking long-term employment opportunities, with eligibility for ILR in 1 year.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Deep Learning/Computer Vision Specialist

Metaphysic.ai
London (Remote)
01.2022 - Current
  • Generative AI solutions provided using anycostgan, interfacegan, re-style, hyperstyle, Stylegan2, Stylegan3 in order to create hyperrealistic synthetic human images. GANs trained with own dataset using own local (3090 RTX) and cloud GPUs.
  • LipSync, removing image's background and background replacing (image composition) models have been researched and implemented.
  • Demonstrated hyperrealistic image/face editing, converted images with given styles according to business needs such as aging, smiling, head pose, de-aging etc.

Computer Vision Engineer

Ministry of Defence via RAF, Rapid Capabilities Office
Farnborough, Hampshire
01.2021 - 06.2021
  • Collaborated with researchers from RAF, DSTL and +20 years experienced academicians from top tier universities; University of Oxford, Imperial College London.
  • Worked on Computer Vision and other type of Deep Learning problems. Provided unique solutions and solved choke points of the projects.
  • Security Check is available upon request.

Data Scientist (Remote & Onsite)

Nimbe Ltd
Gerrards cross
02.2020 - 11.2020

• Machine Learning algorithms; Random Forest, Naive Bayes, etc. and Natural Language Processing pre-trained models; BERT, GPT-2, etc. are examined and implemented for workflow automation of client companies.
• Reinforcement Learning and Online Learning algorithms (Hoeffding trees, Learn++, etc.) investigated and experimented to create decision path optimiser for business process mining.
• Recommender system with sentiment analysis improved applying unsupervised machine learning techniques for new product suggestion.
• Financial sentiment analysis implemented which scrapes websites (HTML) to catch trends depending on daily news and numerical data. Project initialised from scratch and deployed as REST API using Flask.

Deep Learning/Computer Vision Engineer (Remote)

VAAK Inc.
Tokyo
07.2019 - 12.2019

• Guided on Multiple Object Detection, Pose Estimation, ReID and Tracking models. Increased accuracy, speed, and decreased occlusions during overhead detection of real-time surveillance system.
• Yolov3, Faster R-CNN, Mobile SSD Net type of pre-trained models experimented and analysed.
• Created mAP metrics and annotated data-sets from scratch using open-source tools. Rendered videos utilising Google Cloud computing on Ubuntu servers.
• Collaborated with global team of engineers working entirely remotely.

Deep Learning Research Engineer (Full-Time)

GeoTeric
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
06.2018 - 06.2019

• Worked with imbalanced, limited seismic datasets and cloud computing (AWS) to create generalised deep learning models.
• Specialised in 2D and 3D image segmentation.
• Created deep learning models from scratch with own customised network architectures, loss functions, metrics and workflows in order to address specific problems in seismic interpretation.
• Improved projects' accuracies (Matthew and Jaccard scores) and increased speed x10, x20 faster by reducing concatenated layers.

Research Assistant Intern

Istanbul University Electronic Lab.
Istanbul, Turkey
01.2016 - 01.2017

• Attended project meetings, summarised project results and informed research groups.
• Conducted literature review to enhance existing circuit designs. Reproduced published papers in electronic field.

Education

Master of Science - Artificial Intelligence With Robotics

University Of Hertfordshire
Hatfield, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
10.2017 - 01.2020

Bachelor of Science - Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Istanbul University
Istanbul
09.2012 - 06.2017

Skills

    Machine learning

Deep Learning

Computer Vision / Natural Language Processing

Tensorflow / PyTorch / Keras

PySpark / SQL / Flask / Scikit-Learn

Python

Google Cloud / Azure / AWS

Research / Remote Working

Linux / Ubuntu

SpaCy / NLTK / OpenCV

Docker

Blender / Unity / Omniverse

Git / Mercurial

ChatGPT

SLAM / Visual Odometry / Sensor Fusion / 3D Reconstruction / NERF / Robotics

Face Recognition / Emotion Analysis / Style Transferring / Generative AI

Pose Estimation / Object Tracking / Object Detection / Image Segmentation / Depth Estimation

Reinforcement Learning

Accomplishments

    Combining Artificial Intelligence with Human Reasoning for Seismic Interpretation (2019, SEG, Conference Paper).

Interests

Drinking coffee

Eating outdoors

Timeline

Deep Learning/Computer Vision Specialist

Metaphysic.ai
01.2022 - Current

Computer Vision Engineer

Ministry of Defence via RAF, Rapid Capabilities Office
01.2021 - 06.2021

Data Scientist (Remote & Onsite)

Nimbe Ltd
02.2020 - 11.2020

Deep Learning/Computer Vision Engineer (Remote)

VAAK Inc.
07.2019 - 12.2019

Deep Learning Research Engineer (Full-Time)

GeoTeric
06.2018 - 06.2019

Master of Science - Artificial Intelligence With Robotics

University Of Hertfordshire
10.2017 - 01.2020

Research Assistant Intern

Istanbul University Electronic Lab.
01.2016 - 01.2017

Bachelor of Science - Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Istanbul University
09.2012 - 06.2017
Vural ErdoganComputer Vision Engineer, Data Scientist