Berkant Turan
Machine Learning And Optimization Researcher
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolBerkant Turan is a PhD candidate and research associate at TU Berlin and the Zuse Institute Berlin, specializing in machine learning, optimization, and robustness with seven years of hands-on experience. His work spans interpretability of deep networks, generative modeling for vision and NLP, adversarial robustness, watermarking, and joint discriminative–generative optimization—bridging theoretical optimization with applied ML. He has contributed industry-focused research during a Robust AI internship at Fraunhofer HHI, tackling anomaly detection, calibration, and hybrid ResNet–VAE/GAN systems. A former long-term teaching assistant in mechanics, he combines strong mathematical foundations from TU Berlin and IIT Madras with practical research engineering. Notably, his profile reflects a consistent thread of bringing optimization perspectives into deep learning problems, making models both more interpretable and more robust.
7 years of coding experience
Indian Institute of Technology MadrasMaster of Science - MS, Scientific Computing, Master of Science - MS, Scientific Computing at Technische Universität Berlin
German, English, Turkish
Github Skills (36)
speech-to-text10
pytorch10
python10
speech-synthesis10
voice10
deep-learning10
speech10
tensorflow9
speech-recognition9
medical-image-analysis7
machine-learning7
medical-application7
medicine7
keras7
medical7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
b-turan/hello-world
Nov 2018 - Feb 2022
"hello world!"
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 2 months
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b-turan/b-turan
Jun 2022 - Sep 2024
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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