Tolga Birdal
Assistant Professor at Imperial College London
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTolga Birdal is an Assistant Professor at Imperial College London with 12 years of experience at the intersection of geometric computing, computer vision and machine learning, following a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford and a PhD from TU Munich. He blends deep academic research—specializing in 3D reconstruction and geometry—with practical product-building experience as a serial founder and former chief engineer of BeFunky and CEO of a vision-focused startup. His work spans theory and systems: from contributing a surface matching module to OpenCV during Google Summer of Code to publishing geometry-driven CV/ML methods developed in industry-sponsored PhD work. Based in the UK, he is adept at turning large point-cloud and multi-modal data problems into scalable algorithms and demonstrable prototypes. Colleagues know him for bridging rigorous mathematics with usable tools, and for sustaining long-term open-source contributions that make advanced 3D vision techniques accessible.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Technical University of MunichScience, Science, Science, Science at Robert CollegeMSc., Computational Science & Engineering, MSc., Computational Science & Engineering at Technische Universität MünchenBSc, Electronics, BSc, Electronics at Sabanci UniversityScience, Science at Bornova Anatolian High SchoolPostdoctoral Research Fellow, Computer Science, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Computer Science at Stanford University
Turkish, English, German
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Github Skills (57)
pointnet10
optimization-methods9
autoencoder9
python9
opencv9
optimization9
cpp9
computer-vision9
point-cloud8
dependency-free8
cmake8
machine-learning8
pytorch8
optim8
data-science7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tolgabirdal/ppf_matching
May 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:76 commits, 1 push in 3 months
tolgabirdal/tolgabirdal.github.io
Sep 2017 - Sep 2024
Contributions:42 pushes in 7 years 1 month
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