Computer Vision | Applied ML | Data Products

Hey, I'm Atalay

I'm a data scientist and applied AI researcher with an MSc in Computer Science.

I build applied machine learning systems that turn raw data into models, pipelines, and usable software for prediction, automation, visual understanding, and decision support.

My published work focuses on computer vision and reinforcement learning, while my project work turns messy images, text, tables, and behavior data into usable models.

4+
Years in Data Science
33
Public GitHub repos
6
Hugging Face Spaces
2
Published Papers

Core Work

Applied AI work across computer vision, automation, credit risk, recommendation systems, and academic research.

Computer Vision

Visual recognition systems for images and video, including object detection, segmentation, classification, custom dataset preparation, and model evaluation.

Machine Learning Products

Search systems, recommendation engines, scoring models, dashboards, and decision workflows built around real user needs.

Automation and OCR

Extract, validate, and structure information from documents, images, forms, and complex digital processes.

Publications

Machine learning and computer vision research with academic publications

Selected Work

Computer Vision YOLO

ASL Detector YOLO

American Sign Language detection built with YOLO and deployed across Hugging Face and Android surfaces.

Publication Detection

Budgerigar Gender Determination

Computer vision work for identifying budgerigar gender through cere detection and model comparison.

Published in UBMK 2024 Proceedings
Product WebGPU

otoPILOT Ikinciel

AI car search for the Turkish used car market using Qwen3, browser inference, and arabam.com crawling.

Credit Risk Tabular ML

Synthetic Istanbul Credit Risk

Credit risk estimation with non financial features and a privacy preserving synthetic Istanbul dataset.

100,000 synthetic resident records in the study
Civic Data Notebook

IBB Education Aid

Data insight notebook for Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality scholarship aid data.

Public analysis project using IBB open data
Reinforcement Learning VizDoom

DoomRL Baselines

Reinforcement learning baseline project for Doom with VizDoom and Stable Baselines 3.

Analytics Tableau

National Currencies Per US Dollar

Interactive Tableau dashboard for comparing national currency values against the US dollar.

OCR Selenium

Mersis Captcha Solver

Automation pipeline for solving captchas on the MERSIS portal using Selenium and Microsoft TrOCR.

Used in company verification workflows
Dataset Captcha

MathCaptcha10k

Math captcha dataset and generation tooling designed for OCR experiments and captcha model training.

Dataset Games

RAWG Games Dataset

Game metadata dataset prepared for analytics, recommendation, and ranking experiments.

CIFAR 10 Comparison

DNN vs DCNN

Image classification experiment comparing deep neural networks and convolutional models on CIFAR 10.

Publications

Budgerigar publication visual with model results
2024 | IEEE UBMK

Advanced Computer Vision Techniques for Reliable Gender Determination in Budgerigars

Conference paper on object detection and deep learning for budgerigar gender recognition. Published in UBMK 2024 Proceedings, pages 863 to 868.

DOI 10.1109/UBMK63289.2024.10773570
Double DQN publication visual with instance segmentation workflow
2025 | IEEE ASYU

Reinforcement Learning Approach to Instance Segmentation Using Double DQN

Conference paper applying reinforcement learning to instance segmentation with a Double DQN approach.

DOI 10.1109/ASYU67174.2025.11208352

Experience

Jul 2024 to Present

Freelance Data Scientist | Upwork

Apr 2024 to May 2024

Data Scientist | Kervan Gida

Nov 2023 to Mar 2024

AI Bootcamp Developer | Samsung Innovation Campus

Jun 2022 to Jun 2023

Data Scientist | BK Law Firm

Feb 2022 to Jul 2022

Data Scientist | Ignitus

Sep 2021 to Dec 2021

Data Scientist | Behaivior

Jul 2019 to Oct 2019

Software Engineer Intern | Optiim