Imperial College London
Assistant Professor, UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, and lead of CIRCLE.
About
Background
A broader view of my work, background and interests.
Biography
I am an Associate Professor at Imperial College London and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow , where I lead the great CIRCLE research group and act as the elected AI speaker of Imperial's AI Network. Previously worked with the Geometric Computing Group at Stanford as part of StanfordAILab , and CAMP Group at TU Munich . Asking how intelligent machines should represent structure of the world by day, indulging in music (drums and percussion) and philosophy by night.
Stanford University
Postdoctoral research in geometric computing.
Technical University of Munich
PhD in Geometric methods for 3D reconstruction from large point clouds, in collaboration with Siemens Corporate Technology.
Technical University of Munich
MSc in Computational Science and Engineering.
Sabancı University
BSc in Electronics Engineering.
Research support
Selected grants and awards
UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship
UNTOLD: Unifying Foundations for Topological Deep Learning.
EPSRC Research Grant
GNOMON: Deep non-Euclidean Generative Models.
Royal Society Research Grant
TODDLE: Topological deep learning.
Meta (Facebook) Research Award
Perception of hand interactions in two- and three-dimensional scenes.
Entrepreneurship and industry
Building research into products
Entrepreneurial and industrial work has been part of my trajectory alongside academic research.
2008–2011
BeFunky
Former co-founder and CTO of the online photo-editing and creative platform.
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GRAVI
2011–2014
Gravi Information Technologies
Former co-founder and CEO, developing computer-vision systems for quality inspection.
Doctoral period
Industrial research and startups
Research at Siemens Corporate Technology in computer vision and spatial computing.
Beyond research
Fun Facts
Music
I am immersed in drums and percussion, with a particular appreciation for blues, jazz and funk, as well as folk, ethnic and experimental forms of rhythm and music. I occasionally take the stage with Turkish indie-folk musician Zeyn’el Günbek, and play in the CVPR House Band.