Summary
Mert Duman is a machine learning–focused software engineer and entrepreneur with 8 years of experience, currently co-founding and serving as CTO of Feel Games in İzmir. He holds an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from Tampere University and a BSc in Computer Science from Bilkent, and has transitioned research innovations—novel neuron models and highly efficient image-restoration networks—into practical, high-performance implementations. At Tampere he delivered C++/CUDA kernels achieving up to 20x speedups and produced shallow networks that are 200x smaller and 10x faster with minimal accuracy loss, demonstrating a knack for squeezing efficiency from models. His background spans bioinformatics and healthcare AI to gaming software, reflecting an ability to move between domains and scale prototypes into products. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic researcher-engineer who pairs deep theoretical insight with production-grade systems work.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Under Graduate, Computer Science, Under Graduate, Computer Science at Bilkent University
Master of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence at Tampere University
High School, Science High School, High School, Science High School at Turkish-German Culture and Education Association School
Turkish, English, German