Mehmet Türkcan
Associate Research Scientist
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMehmet Türkcan is an associate research scientist at Columbia University with nine years of experience applying deep learning, computer vision, and computational neuroscience to real-world, low-latency systems. He leads large interdisciplinary projects that collect and annotate urban-scale datasets, adapts state-of-the-art vision and language models for edge deployment, and has published in top conferences like ICML and CVPR. His work is funded by industry partners including Google, NVIDIA, ConEd and EmpireAI, and he has released open-source datasets and demos used to validate street-level AI systems. Uncommonly for an academic, he also designs hands-on community programs and co-design workshops that translate research prototypes into deployed smart-crosswalk hardware and curricula for high school students.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 4.10, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 4.10 at Columbia University in the City of New YorkErasmus Exchange Student, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Erasmus Exchange Student, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de LausanneBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Electronics and Communication Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Electronics and Communication Engineering at Istanbul Technical UniversityRobert College
Spanish, English, Turkish
Github Skills (46)
simulation9
jupyterlab-extension9
executable8
neural8
jupyterlab8
visualization8
threejs8
swc8
jupyter7
webgl7
javascript7
gpu7
cad7
api7
python7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
FlyBrainLab/Neuroballad
Aug 2018 - Jun 2021
Neuroballad is a high level API for simulation of biological neural networks on GPU's, built to facilitate development of circuit-level implementations.
Contributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years 10 months
cudaapiimplementationsneurosciencegpu
mkturkcan/Kaulos
Oct 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:32 commits in 11 months
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