İlkay Potter
Principal Research Scientist at BioSensics
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top Schoolİlkay Potter is a Principal Research Scientist based in Boston with an academic foundation from a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering and eight years of applied research experience in deep learning, recommender systems, optimization, probabilistic modeling, and healthcare applications. Currently leading research at BioSensics after progressing from senior research roles, he bridges academic rigor from Northeastern and USC postdoc work with industry-focused productization in wearable and healthcare sensing. His background includes hands-on computer vision internships at Mitsubishi and Wayfair and signal-processing work at Fraunhofer, highlighting a practical ability to move algorithms from MATLAB prototypes to deployed systems. Known for tackling non-obvious challenges like stable residual echo suppression and surgical-robotics hardware simulation, he excels at marrying probabilistic models with real-world constraints. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic researcher who prioritizes reproducible, optimization-driven solutions that translate into measurable clinical or commercial impact.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange program, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Exchange program, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Case Western Reserve UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bilkent UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern UniversityAnkara Ataturk Anadolu Lisesi
English, German, Turkish
Github Skills (7)
sentiment-analysis1
pytorch1
nlp1
sentiment1
self-attention1
semantic1
evaluation1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ilkyyldz95/EEG_MVTS
Sep 2021 - Feb 2023
Contributions:26 commits, 2 pushes, 4 comments in 1 year 5 months
neu-spiral/ClassificationAndComparisonViaNeuralNetworks
Apr 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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