Ant Duru
Computer Vision Engineer
Ankara,Turkey
Summary
Computer Vision Engineer with 4 years of hands-on experience and a solid background in classical computer vision. Currently finishing a Master's at METU Informatics Institute, with a strong ambition to excel in the intersection of Computer Vision and Large Language Models (LLMs). Developed a pipeline to improve image classification models' training process by optimizing the augmentation policies through LLMs. Highly motivated to contribute to forward-thinking teams and push the boundaries of AI research and application.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Computer Vision Engineer
ArgosAI
Ankara, Turkey
06.2021 - Current
- Developed AI models to detect and locate Foreign Object Debris (FOD) on airport runways and aprons.
- Developed AI models to track turnaround events on airport aprons such as airplane docking.
- Worked on quantifying the amount of motion blur in an image using no-reference image processing
techniques. - Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deploy and validate models in production, ensuring
robust performance and scalability. - Utilized Captum library to interpret a deep CNN-based model that detects foreign object debris at
international airports.
Education
Master of Science - Multimedia Informatics, 09/2022 - 08/2025
Middle East Technical University
Ankara, Turkey 04.2001 -
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Bilkent University
Ankara, Turkey 09.2017 - 06.2022
Skills
- Computer Vision
- Image Classification
- Object Detection
- Image Generation
- Image Processing
- Automated Data Augmentation
- MLOps
- Python
- Pytorch
- Data Science Libraries
- Data Visualization
- Julia, R, MATLAB
Publications
Ant Duru, Alptekin Temizel, "Adaptive Augmentation Policy Optimization with LLM Feedback", arXiv preprint, October 2024. https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13453
Timeline
Computer Vision Engineer
ArgosAI
06.2021 - Current
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Bilkent University
09.2017 - 06.2022
Master of Science - Multimedia Informatics, 09/2022 - 08/2025
Middle East Technical University
04.2001 -