Yildirim

Experience

  1. Apr 2022 – Present

    Staff Research Scientist

    Canva · Sydney, Australia

    • Researching and developing cutting-edge agentic AI products for design generation, editing, and understanding using multimodal LLMs and diffusion models.

  2. Jun 2021 – Apr 2022

    Machine Learning Freelancer

    Freelance

    • Training and shipping machine learning models for image/video analyses, AI-assisted content creation, NLP, and forecasting.

  3. Mar 2018 – Jun 2021

    Principal Research Scientist

    Zalando SE · Berlin, Germany

    • Strategizing and doing research on machine learning, computer vision, and Generative Adversarial Networks for AI-assisted fashion design, visual content creation, and virtual try-on applications.

  4. Aug 2015 – Jan 2018

    Senior Computer Vision Scientist

    EyeEm · Berlin, Germany

    • Responsible for doing computer vision research and releasing production code on photographic aesthetics, recommender systems, image captioning, and object classification using deep learning.

  5. Aug 2010 – Jul 2015

    Research Assistant

    EPFL · Lausanne, Switzerland

    • Performing computer vision research on text recognition, visual aesthetics, and detection and segmentation of visually-salient objects.

  6. Jul 2013 – Sep 2013

    Research Assistant

    National University of Singapore · Singapore

    • Research visit on visual saliency.

  7. Jul 2008 – Jun 2010

    System Engineer & Algorithm Designer

    Aselsan · Ankara, Türkiye

    • Developing radar-image formation, enhancement, and target detection, identification, and tracking algorithms and their integration into the whole system.