Mert Toka
Lead Creative Technologist & Co-founder
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMert Toka is a PhD-level creative technologist, graphics engineer, and design engineer based in Los Angeles with nine years of cross-disciplinary experience building real-time graphics, computational fabrication, spatial data tools, and immersive installations. As co-founder and Lead Creative Technologist at Metaesthetica, he merges systems-driven pipelines—real‑time rendering, AI/ML, spatial audio, and advanced haptics—to produce data-driven art and large-scale experiential work for high-profile residencies. His research and engineering roles at UC Santa Barbara and UCLA produced publication-quality computational fabrication tools, a widely downloaded spatiotemporal visualization (DynamoVis), and operational dashboards used for emergency planning and mobility analysis. Comfortable at the intersection of art and engineering, he translates artistic intent into robust software and hardware systems, from CAM path-planning to GPU-accelerated UIs and real-time volumetric capture. Notably, he combines lab-grade research rigor with product-minded performance optimization, shipping mobile apps and consumer-facing systems that sustain 60fps and zero critical rendering crashes.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science Computer Science and Engineering at Sabanci UniversityDoctor of Philosophy Media Arts and Technology, Doctor of Philosophy Media Arts and Technology at UC Santa Barbara
English, Turkish, Spanish
Github Skills (101)
in-app-purchase10
intel10
geographic10
sdk10
computer-vision10
payment-methods10
geospatial-visualization10
hardware10
pde9
composition9
realsense9
camera-api9
resize9
grid-system9
drag-and-drop9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
move-ucsb/DynamoVis
Feb 2021 - Nov 2021
An exploratory movement visualization tool
Contributions:2 releases, 65 commits, 46 pushes in 8 months
geographicgeospatial-visualizationinteractive-animationsmovebank
merttoka/taskanalysisvisualization
Jan 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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