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3 BS Alumni

3 BS Alumni

Bilgisayar Mühendisliği

We will keep updating the success stories of our graduates at this page who had their undergraduate degree in Computer Science Engineering department at Özyeğin University.

Sami Menteş

Sami Menteş (CS),completed his first-year internship at Microsoft. During his second internship at Periter Research and Technology Inc., the representative company of FLIR Surveillance Inc, he worked on Computer Vision software. During his undergraduate years, he developed an autonomous mapping robot founded by TUBITAK with his dormitory friends.

After completing his undergraduate studies, he pursued a master's degree with a focus on Computer Vision. In his first year, his work was selected for the ML Reproducibility Challenge 2020 and published in the ReScience-C Journal. Later on, under the guidance of Dr. Furkan Kıraç, he and the OzU Vision Lab members published workshop papers at the prestigious CVPR and ECCV conferences, graduating with high honors.

Currently, he works as a Computer Vision Engineer at Fizyr, a leading Computer Vision company in the robotic logistics sector based in the Netherlands.

Alara Baransel

Alara Baransel (CS 2020), completed an internship at Oracle Turkey. During her internship, she honed her skills in cloud technologies, containerization, and virtualization. In the final years of her bachelor's degree, she engaged in academic research on smart load testing methods alongside Assist. Prof. Dr. İsmail Arı, resulting in the publication of her first international conference paper in 2021.

After graduating, Alara began her professional career as an Application Developer at IBM Turkey. Over the course of 2.5 years at IBM Turkey, she worked in various roles. Currently, Alara works as a Solutions Architect at AWS (Amazon Web Services) in London.

Cem Ata Baykara

Cem Ata Baykara (CS) completed his first internship in Big Data at Türkiye İş Bankası. During his second internship at Fibabanka, he worked in the R&D department focusing on Internet of Things (IoT) security. After completing his Bachelor's degree, he started his master's degree in Network Security in 2020. Throughout his master's studies, he worked as a researcher in a TÜBİTAK project, alongside his advisors Dr. Kübra Kalkan and Dr. Ilgın Şafak (from Fibabank). During his master's program, his research primarily focused on IoT security and Blockchain.
Currently, he is working as a doctoral research assistant at Tübingen University in Germany, focusing on privacy-preserving machine learning. He is also working as a researcher on federated machine learning in the PrivateAIM (Privacy-Preserving Analytics in Medicine) project, developed for Germany's Medical Informatics Initiative.