Hello, I'm
Building AI products at SAP Labs Singapore and conducting research at the intersection of generative AI, efficiency, and safety. PhD in CS from NUS, focusing on model compression, knowledge distillation, and diffusion models.
I am an Applied AI Scientist at SAP Labs Singapore, building production AI products under the Generative AI Foundations (GAIF) team. My work spans fine-tuning Vision Language Models for document intelligence, designing and evaluating LLM Agents and RAG pipelines, and tackling AI fairness, bias, and adversarial robustness for business-critical applications.
I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science at the National University of Singapore as a member of the Embedded Computing Lab (EcoLab), supervised by Prof. Tulika Mitra (NUS) and co-supervised by Liu Siying and Pham Nam Trung from A*STAR. My research focused on efficient deep learning — particularly data-free knowledge distillation, model compression, and generative pseudo replay. My PhD was supported by the prestigious Singapore International Graduate Award (SINGA).
I hold a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Bilkent University, Turkey, where I graduated with High Honors and the Data Science Award. My work has appeared at top venues including AAAI, BMVC, WACV, and IEEE RA-L.
Outside of work, I enjoy 💃 Argentine tango, 🏋️ gym, 🍸 cocktail making, ☕ coffee brewing, ✈️ travelling, and 🧗 bouldering.
Selected peer-reviewed publications at top-tier venues
A mobile application assisting car drivers with real-time traffic sign recognition, eye-gaze monitoring to prevent distraction, and collision prediction — all on-device.
Data Science Award — Bilkent University