Ozan Ciga
Senior Data Scientist
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolOzan Ciga is a Senior Data Scientist with 17 years of experience specializing in image and video generation and leading development of large language models. Based in Old Toronto, he combines academic rigor—a PhD in Medical Biophysics and a CS master's from McGill—with hands-on industry work at Getty Images and entrepreneurial experience as a Founder-In-Residence at Entrepreneur First. His background spans research roles and applied machine learning in both startup and corporate settings, bringing models from prototype to production. Notably, he blends signal-processing roots from electrical engineering with modern deep-learning workflows, giving him a rare cross-disciplinary perspective on visual and multimodal AI.
18 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bilkent UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Medical Biophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Medical Biophysics at University of TorontoMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at McGill University
Github Skills (48)
php10
pre-trained-model9
generative-adversarial-network9
cms9
midjourney9
denoising9
dall-e9
image-text9
compression9
python-bindings8
pytorch8
representation-learning7
scheduler7
mixture-of-experts7
dataframes7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ozanciga/wsi-segmentation-pipeline
Jun 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:32 commits, 22 pushes in 3 months
ozanciga/self-supervised-histopathology
Nov 2020 - Jun 2022
Pretrained model for self supervised histopathology
Contributions:3 releases, 12 commits, 11 pushes in 1 year 7 months
pre-trained-model
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