Umit Aktas
Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolUmit Aktas is a Senior Applied Scientist with 12 years of experience applying machine learning and computer vision to real-world products, currently contributing to Alexa AI at Amazon. He holds a PhD in Robot Vision and has a strong track record building multimodal and object-detection models from research prototypes to cloud-deployed MVPs across companies like Blue Prism and Tractable. Umit has led small teams, designed end-to-end ML architectures and data pipelines, and driven first-customer feedback loops and cloud deployment initiatives. His background spans robotics grasping research, satellite image detection, and large-scale visual estimation for automotive damage, reflecting a rare blend of academic rigor and production-focused engineering. Based in the UK, he pairs deep technical expertise (PyTorch/TensorFlow, Python, C++) with practical experience shipping models on Azure and AWS.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at Middle East Technical UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at University of BirminghamBachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University
English, French, Turkish
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Github Skills (3)
grasp10
simulator8
simulation8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rusen/CHOP
Jul 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:23 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
pacman-project/Vision
Nov 2013 - Jan 2017
Contributions:532 commits in 3 years 2 months
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