Summary
Baris Demir is a Staff Software Engineer specializing in AI with eight years of experience building and productionizing ML solutions across device logs, images and materials science domains. He combines hands-on development of AIML models with MLOps best practices, moving research-grade models from academia into industrial deployments at companies like Nokia and Arm. His background includes a PhD in Materials Science and interdisciplinary research roles, giving him a rare blend of domain expertise in polymers/composites and practical ML engineering. Based in the UK, he has led industrialisation efforts and research projects that bridge computational materials science and scalable AI pipelines, often working with heterogeneous datasets uncommon in standard ML workflows.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS Chemical Engineering, BS Chemical Engineering at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Materials Science/Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Materials Science/Engineering at Deakin University
MS Chemical Engineering, MS Chemical Engineering at Politecnico di Torino
Turkish, Italian, English