I am a reader (a.k.a. associate professor) in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh and leading the Visual Computing Group (VICO). I am also a fellow of ELLIS – the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems and a member of Computer Vision at the University of Edinburgh.

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My research focuses on computer vision and machine learning. Before Edinburgh, I have spent nearly three wonderful years in the great Visual Geometry Group (VGG) at the University of Oxford as a postdoc, working with Andrea Vedaldi.

I completed my PhD in VISICS group in KU Leuven. I was lucky to work with Luc Van Gool and Tinne Tuytelaars. My PhD topic was about image classification with latent parameters with a focus on weakly supervised object detection and action recognition. My bachelor’s and master’s degrees are from Sabanci University where I was working on micro-robotics with Mustafa Unel who thankfully introduced me to computer vision.

I have also been teaching Machine Learning Practical course since 2018.