Denizhan Kara
Researcher PHD Student at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolDenizhan Kara is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at UIUC with nine years of experience building and deploying ML systems that bridge foundation models, LLMs, and physics-aware multimodal representations. He has translated research into impact through internships at Waymo—where he architected LLM-driven automation pipelines handling millions of events—and at the Army Research Lab, where he improved robust vehicle classification with physics-guided training. His academic work in self-supervised learning and IoT sensing has been published at NeurIPS, WWW, and ACM SenSys, and he frequently combines systems-level thinking with domain knowledge to make models more generalizable and scalable. Comfortable moving between embedded signal processing, production ML pipelines, and foundational research, he seeks applied scientist or research-driven engineering roles that demand both rigor and real-world deployment experience. An unusual strength is his dual background in physics and EE, which he leverages to inject physical priors into large-model training for improved robustness.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Koç ÜniversitesiHigh School Diploma, Natural Sciences, High School Diploma, Natural Sciences at Izmir Fen LisesiDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at 京都大学
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Github Skills (14)
functional-programming6
haskell-stack6
sql6
database6
mysql6
haskell6
tezos3
testing3
blockchain2
integration-testing2
sdk2
ethereum2
rpc2
python2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
denizhankara/PPG-DaLiA
Apr 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:26 commits, 6 PRs, 16 pushes in 3 months
denizhankara/veins-f2md
Apr 2021 - Sep 2022
F2MD on Veins - The open source vehicular network simulation framework.
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 year 5 months
network-simulationveinssimulationsimulation-framework
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