Deniz Karakay

Electrical Electronics Engineering Student

Hello

Junior EEE @METU | Affiliated Researcher @OSU | Undergraduate Researcher @OGAM

Experience

Intern

Micropsi Industries

Jul 2022 – Present Berlin

Focusing on robotics and improving the MIRAI platform, and the simulation environment for robotic arms using ROS, Gazebo and Python.

Undergraduate Researcher

METU Center For Image Analysis (OGAM) at METU

Sep 2021 – Present Ankara

Participated in a project called “IMU - Lidar Integration”, supervised by Prof. Dr. Aydın Alatan to interpret and visualize the LIDAR data on a moving car by utilizing IMU data and external GPS data from the mobile phone. Developing a mobile application to collect IMU and GPS data and utilizing those data in MATLAB’s toolbox.

Affiliated Researcher

Photogrammetric Computer Vision Lab (PCVlab) at Ohio State University

Feb 2020 – Present Remote

Working on a project supervised by **Prof. Dr. Alper Yilmaz **to demonstrate Adversarial Attacks on map domain. Generating an object detection model based on YOLOv5 for our custom satellite view dataset and utilizing adversarial attacks to deceive our model
Participated in a project supervised by Prof. Dr. Alper Yilmaz to make geolocalization using only image processing in a UAV. Collected map data from Google Maps and Open Street Maps using Python with various classes to train the models based on image segmentation and GANs.

Part-time Software Engineer & Special Project Manager

Gamer Arena

Jul 2020 – Nov 2021 Remote

Made research on ranking systems, and selected the optimized ranking system based on simulations made by using Python. Implemented an Elo rating system to the platform using Django REST-API and Django ORM.
Prepared a dashboard page to follow KPIs in specific time intervals.
Developed a Discord bot by Python to send messages, DMs inside the Gamer Arena server.

Mentor & Contributor

SCoRe Lab

Nov 2016 – Present Remote

Mentoring one of the most respected open source program for university students, Google Summer of Code, since 2018. Mentored Google Code-In program for high school students between 2017-2019.