Cem Koc
Software Engineer - SPG at Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab (BAIR)
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCem Koc is a machine-learning and algorithms-focused software engineer with 12 years of experience, currently contributing to Apple’s Special Projects Group in San Francisco. A UC Berkeley EECS alumnus and BAIR researcher, he blends academic rigor in sensorimotor and time-series learning with production experience in distributed systems and ads forecasting. His background spans tactile-driven locomotion research, Bayesian modeling for real-time bidding, and practical approximations for NP-hard routing problems using distributed and evolutionary approaches. Comfortable across research and engineering, Cem has co-founded a student housing startup and repeatedly translated lab prototypes into robust code. He brings a curiosity for cross-disciplinary problems—combining robotics-inspired sensing, statistical learning, and large-scale system design—tempered by a habit of testing ideas empirically at scale.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleySumma Cum Laude, Summa Cum Laude at Sisli Terakki Science High School, Istanbul, Turkey
Turkish, English, Japanese
Github Skills (22)
deep-learning9
python8
gpu8
machine-learning8
optimization7
linear-programming6
jax6
neural-network6
tensorflow6
operations-research6
constraint-programming5
numpy5
vehicle-routing-problem5
gurobi4
combinatorial-optimization4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cemkoc/cemkoc.github.io
Apr 2016 - Dec 2024
Contributions:4 PRs, 72 pushes, 4 branches in 8 years 9 months
blog-project
cemkoc/faster-pointcloud-distance
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:19 commits, 13 pushes, 4 branches in 17 days
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