Erol Çıtak
Data Scientist
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolErol Çıtak is a data scientist and Lead AI engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in computer vision, NLP, and deep learning, currently applying his expertise at Lufthansa Group Digital Hangar in Frankfurt. He combines academic rigor from a PhD in Computer Engineering with hands-on production skills—containerized deployments, Kubernetes/OpenShift, and FastAPI—to deliver scalable AI systems. Erol has driven applied projects across industries at companies like trinamiX, Turkcell and Akbank, including fine-tuning large language models, recommendation systems, and generative vision models. His toolkit spans TensorFlow, PyTorch and Hugging Face, and he pairs model innovation with CI/CD practices to move prototypes into production. Notably, he pursues vision-language research that bridges multimodal understanding and practical automation to improve user experiences in sectors from aviation to finance. He is motivated by solving complex, cross-domain problems and continually explores reinforcement learning and generative AI to push applied boundaries.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Computer Engineering, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Engineering at Gebze Technical UniversityBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering at Kocaeli UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Engineering at Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi 
Turkish, English
Github Skills (32)
computer-vision9
opencv8
deep-learning8
ai8
machine-learning8
convolutional-neural-networks7
detector7
python7
contrastive-learning6
unsupervised-learning6
binder5
deep-neural-networks5
text-detection4
variational-autoencoder4
ocr4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
PhantomClick/DonemOdevi
Jan 2015 - Jul 2018
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
ErolCitak/SarOpticImageMatching
May 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:23 commits, 1 push, 1 issue in 7 months
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