Summary
Anıl Çelik is a Senior Research Engineer with 9 years of experience specializing in core AI, machine/deep learning, computer vision and NLP, currently driving research and applied AI at Anadolu Sigorta. He has led teams and shipped production modules such as a Petal Maps submodule at Huawei, and contributed to academic-industrial projects on facial expression analysis and real-time visualization tools during his long collaboration with Bahcesehir University. Comfortable bridging research and product, Anıl pairs a PhD-level background with hands-on engineering to normalize challenging, unconstrained data and deploy robust models in enterprise settings. A pragmatic learner who prefers “I can learn it” to “I don’t know,” he also maintains a security research presence as a DEF CON & Black Hat speaker, reflecting an uncommon blend of AI research and practical security expertise.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering, 3.71 / 4, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering, 3.71 / 4 at Bahcesehir University
English, Turkish