Ümit Çağlar
Research Assistant at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University
Ankara, Türkiye Turkey
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Top SchoolÜmit Çağlar is an electrical and electronics engineer and PhD candidate in Modeling and Simulation with eight years of experience building data-driven and AI systems across academia and industry. He has designed, deployed, and maintained production AI solutions at Turkish Aerospace—presenting at Teknofest and IDEF—and practiced systems engineering and exploratory data analysis at STM. Currently a research assistant at METU and a recent visiting PhD student at the University of Leeds, he blends deep expertise in computer architecture, DSP and power electronics with modern machine learning, reinforcement learning and data mining. Comfortable in Agile, version-controlled environments, he’s delivered cross-functional solutions tailored for aviation and defense customers while contributing to in-company innovation and outreach. Notably, he pairs rigorous academic training (MSc with 3.87 and PhD research) with hands-on productization of AI in high-stakes settings, making him adept at moving models from prototype to deployed system. Based in Ankara, he brings a pragmatic systems mindset to complex computational and hardware-software integration challenges.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Modeling, Virtual Environments and Simulation, 3.71, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Modeling, Virtual Environments and Simulation, 3.71 at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical UniversityScientist Education Programme, Scientist Education Programme at TED Ankara Koleji
English, Turkish
Github Skills (16)
predictive9
convolutional-neural-networks8
maintenance8
activity-recognition8
computer-vision6
multi-object-tracking6
re-identification6
artificial-intelligence5
object-tracking5
machine-learning4
deep-learning4
object-detection4
human-activity-recognition4
python4
anomaly-detection2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
caglarmert/MOT-Research
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Human Activity Recognition Research Repository
Contributions:44 commits, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 22 days
pythondeep-learningrecognitioncomputer-visionhuman-activity-recognition
caglarmert/Kartal
Oct 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:16 commits, 4 pushes in 3 months
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