- i'm an ai engineer & scientist at ultralytics, where i lead YOLO27 image encoder (UltraViT) efforts, open-vocab detection (YOLOE27) and efficient distillation based pretraining.
- i created sahi and co-authored yolo26 and yolo27. my open-source work has 20m+ downloads, and i hold 5 patents.
- i earned my phd at the metu deep learning & computer vision lab, focusing on efficient distillation for vision-language models. my research has 2,300+ citations, with papers at cvpr, icassp, icip, and frontiers. i also peer review for q1 journals, including remote sensing of environment (impact factor 12.3).
