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Mehmet Ünlü

I study Electronics and Communication Engineering at ITU and build hands-on projects around forecasting, computer vision, and making data workflows faster.

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Electronics and Communication Engineering student at Istanbul Technical University specializing in scalable machine learning systems, intermittent demand forecasting, computer vision, and optimization-focused AI engineering. Experienced in designing recursive forecasting architectures, autonomous perception systems, and large-scale ML pipelines using PyTorch, TensorFlow, and LightGBM. Strong interest in research engineering, sequential decision systems, and autonomous AI systems.

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Experience

AI Specialist Assistant

Dec 2025 - Present

Ravelos

  • Developed intermittent demand forecasting systems for retail-like datasets containing 20K+ products, 3M+ rows, and approximately 85% zero-demand observations.
  • Designed a two-stage forecasting architecture using classification and LightGBM-based regression pipelines for sparse demand modeling.
  • Built fully recursive inference workflows where future predictions were generated without access to unavailable future information, preventing data leakage.
  • Improved forecasting accuracy from approximately 40% to 65-70% using custom business-oriented evaluation metrics and advanced feature engineering.
  • Reduced end-to-end ML pipeline runtime from 40 minutes to 4 minutes through vectorization, parallelization, memory optimization, and matrix-based computation.

Full-Stack / AI Engineer

Dec 2025 - Present

Vcamp

  • Served as team captain for the TEKNOFEST Aviation AI Competition, defining the overall architecture and directing parallel workstreams across object detection, position estimation, and reference-object matching.
  • Designed and implemented a hybrid visual odometry pipeline combining ORB and optical flow with RAFT-based motion estimation, confidence-aware arbitration, and an iterative extended Kalman filter, achieving approximately 7.5 FPS on custom drone footage.
  • Built an end-to-end reference-object matching pipeline for aerial RGB and thermal imagery, fine-tuning YOLOv8 across seven training rounds and reaching 0.749 mAP50 at approximately 36 ms per frame.
  • Directed a four-class UAV object-detection subsystem and defined its dataset architecture, training strategy, and validation criteria for a dataset containing more than 35K images.
  • Architected a unified real-time competition client that integrated all three subsystems behind a modular inference pipeline and produced JSON submissions compatible with the competition API.
  • Built iteration tooling including a browser-based annotation editor and a temporal label-densification technique for scaling small hand-labeled datasets.
  • Co-developed the Vcamp website in a five-person engineering team, building Python data models and REST APIs and integrating them with a React and Next.js frontend.
  • Implemented multilingual content, pagination, certificate validation, a dynamic team gallery, responsive UI improvements, and fixes for more than 30 tracked issues.

Projects

Intermittent Demand Forecasting Research - Exploring reinforcement learning-enhanced forecasting systems in which agents learn dynamic trust levels for ML forecasts under changing demand regimes, with a focus on hybrid ML architectures and sequential decision systems.
Whisper-Based Subtitle and Speech Processing System - Developed multilingual speech-to-text workflows using Whisper and Hugging Face, including subtitle generation, prompt-enhanced NLP processing, and audio transcription.

Education

B.Sc. Electronics and Communication Engineering (GPA: 3.29/4.00)

Istanbul Technical University (ITU) · Expected Graduation: 2028

Skills

Machine LearningDeep LearningTime Series ForecastingIntermittent Demand ForecastingFeature EngineeringSequential Decision SystemsReinforcement LearningNatural Language ProcessingComputer VisionMLOps

Tools

PythonCC#DartSQLPyTorchTensorFlowScikit-learnLightGBMNumPyPandasOpenCVHugging FaceWhisperFlutterFirebaseGitLinuxVS Code

Research Interests

Machine Learning SystemsIntermittent Demand ForecastingSequential Decision Systems and Reinforcement LearningAutonomous Perception SystemsEdge AI and Embedded IntelligenceGraph-Sheaf Neural Networks

Certifications

Deep Learning Algorithm with PyTorch - BTK Akademi, June 2025
Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning - BTK Akademi, July 2025

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