Oytun Ulutan
Staff Software Engineer - Perception at Zoox
Buena Park, California, United States
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Top SchoolOytun Ulutan is a Staff Software Engineer specializing in perception systems, with a decade of experience building production-grade computer vision and deep learning solutions at Zoox. He earned a Ph.D. from UC Santa Barbara’s Vision Research Lab, where his work spanned multi-modal learning and cutting-edge vision research before transitioning those advances into autonomous vehicle perception stacks. At Zoox he progressed from software engineer to staff level, leading vision efforts that bridge research rigor and real-world system constraints. His background includes research internships at IBM and the US Army Research Laboratory, reflecting a blend of academic depth and applied problem solving. Based in Buena Park, CA, he brings both mentorship experience from academia and hands-on engineering leadership in safety-critical perception systems. Notably, his profile hints at a researcher-turned-practitioner mindset—comfortable publishing and prototyping novel models while shipping robust, scalable perception software.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bilkent UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical Engineering at UC Santa Barbara
English, Turkish
Github Skills (19)
person-detection10
detection-model10
convolutional-neural-networks9
darknet8
graph8
image-processing8
tflearn7
machine-learning7
tensorflow7
object-detection7
deep-learning6
neural-network5
mobile5
action-recognition5
data-science5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
oulutan/ACAM_Demo
Sep 2018 - Jan 2021
Real-time Action detection demo for the work Actor Conditioned Attention Maps. This repo includes a complete pipeline for person detection/tracking and analyzing their actions in real-time.
Contributions:190 commits, 10 PRs, 53 pushes in 2 years 4 months
person-detection
oulutan/ActorConditionedAttentionMaps
Oct 2018 - Jan 2021
Training code for the ACAM action detection model.
Contributions:187 commits, 2 PRs, 38 pushes in 2 years 3 months
detection-model
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