- July 2022: ChaLearn Looking at People: Sign Spotting Challenge @ ECCV2022, MSSL track - 1st Place
- July 2022: ChaLearn Looking at People: Sign Spotting Challenge @ ECCV22, OSLWL track - 3rd Place
- July 2018: University of Surrey - Postgraduate Research Student of the Year
- Oct 2017: ChaLearn Looking at People: Continuous Gesture Recognition Challenge 2017 - 3rd Place
- Dec 2016: ChaLearn Looking at People: Continuous Gesture Recognition Challenge 2016 - 2nd Place
- June 2014: ChaLearn Looking at People: Gesture Recognition Challenge 2014 - 7th Place
- June 2013: Yildiz Technical University, Computer Engineering Department - Graduated with Highest GPA and High Honors
- June 2013: TUBITAK - Undergraduate Students' Software Projects Competition (Program #2242) - 1st Place
Research Experience
- 07.2022 - Present: Research Scientist - Input and Action Recognition, Meta Reality Labs, Zurich, Switzerland
- 10.2021 - 06.2022: Snr. Research Fellow (RA-II), University of Surrey - Center for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, Guildford, UK
- 08.2020 - 10.2021: Research Fellow (RA-I), University of Surrey - Center for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, Guildford, UK
- 07.2016 - 07.2020: Postgraduate Research Student, University of Surrey - Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, Guildford, UK
- 05.2018 - 09.2018: Research Intern, Facebook Reality Labs - Oculus Research, Redmond, WA, USA
- 12.2013 - 06.2016: Research Assistant, Bogazici University - Perceptual Intelligence Laboratory, Istanbul, Turkey
- 06.2011 - 10.2013: Research Assistant (Undergraduate Level), Yildiz Technical University - Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Istanbul, Turkey
- 07.2012 - 08.2012: IAESTE Summer Intern, Lodz Technical University - Department of Applied Sciences, Lodz, Poland
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy: 2020, Electronic Engineering, University of Surrey
- Master of Science: 2016, Computer Engineering, Bogazici University
- Bachelor of Science: 2013, Computer Engineering, Yildiz Technical University
Background
- Research Interests: Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Human-Computer Interaction
- Professional Field: Input and Action Recognition, Sign Language Recognition and Translation
- Brief Introduction: Currently a Research Scientist at Meta Reality Labs, previously worked at the CVSSP center of the University of Surrey and PILAB laboratory of Bogazici University.