Riza Velioglu
Machine Learning Engineer at fal
Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolRiza Velioglu is a machine learning engineer and Ph.D. candidate at Bielefeld University with eight years of experience focused on computer vision, generative models, and applied diffusion methods for object detection and segmentation in challenging real-world settings. He co-founded VisionAI, where he led research and product efforts that secured over €3M in funding and scaled the product to 50+ retail customers, blending academic rigor with commercial impact. Currently working at fal and pursuing doctoral research, he bridges cutting-edge generative research with deployment-minded engineering. Riza’s background in electrical engineering and top grades in intelligent systems underpin a strong foundation in both theory and practical system building. He is especially interested in translating diffusion-based advances into robust vision pipelines for production use.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 3.59/4.00 CGPA, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 3.59/4.00 CGPA at Istanbul Bilgi UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence at Bielefeld UniversityHigh school diploma, Mathematics-Science Department, 89.47/100, High school diploma, Mathematics-Science Department, 89.47/100 at Balıkesir Fatma-Emin Kutvar Anadolu LisesiBachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Fachhochschule Frankfurt am Main
Turkish, English, German
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Github Skills (64)
imitation-learning10
pytorch10
python10
image-processing10
classification10
multimodal-deep-learning10
video-processing10
low-code10
machine-learning10
dialog10
keras10
vision-and-language10
tensorflow10
coco10
deep-learning10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rizavelioglu/rizavelioglu
Dec 2020 - Jul 2025
Contributions:28 pushes in 4 years 7 months
rizavelioglu/challenge-aido_RL-IL
Feb 2020 - Jan 2022
[NeurIPS'19-Competition] Reinforcement Learning + Imitation Learning based approach to AI Driving Olympics
Contributions:165 commits, 18 PRs, 50 pushes in 1 year 11 months
aiimitation-learningreinforcement-learningself-driving-carspytorch
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