Mehmet Yucel
AI Research Manager at Canva
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMehmet Yucel is an AI Research Manager with a decade of experience building and scaling vision and multimodal AI systems, currently leading research at Canva after senior technical leadership roles at Samsung. He combines deep academic roots—a PhD in data augmentation and an h-index above 10—with hands-on engineering across Python, C++, CUDA and embedded deployment, shipping features used by millions on flagship devices. His expertise spans 3D vision, neural rendering (e.g., Gaussian Splatting), vision-language models and real-time on-device inference, and he has translated research into 10+ patents and widely cited publications. Known for securing internal funding and guiding cross-functional teams, he pairs product-facing delivery with publishing and outreach to raise research visibility. Based in London and eligible to work in the UK, he brings rare depth in both multi-view geometry and production optimization for constrained hardware.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Hacettepe UniversityMaster of Philosophy (MPhil) Electrical Engineering and Electronics Research, Master of Philosophy (MPhil) Electrical Engineering and Electronics Research at Brunel University of LondonBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bilkent University
English, Turkish
Github Skills (20)
computer-vision9
object-detection8
frequency-analysis8
yolov48
linux7
darknet7
deep-learning7
neural-network6
windows6
yolov56
pytorch6
caffe6
matlab6
gpu5
deep-neural-networks5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
MKYucel/adversarial_robustness_zsl
Aug 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:18 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
MKYucel/712HW1
Nov 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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