Özgür Kara
CODA, 15th Floor
756 West Peachtree Street
Atlanta, GA, USA, 30332
I am a 2nd year PhD student at Georgia Institute of Technology, Machine Learning PhD program under the supervision of Founder Professor James Rehg.
My ultimate research objective is to develop controllable and explainable generative models for video applications including but not limited to text-to-video generation, video editing, long-term video generation. Beyond these, I also worked on continual learning, and inverse image problems during my previous internships.
I always look for self-motivated students who want to focus on Generative AI related projects. Feel free to reach out to me if you are interested.
Download my CV.
Education
- PhD: Machine Learning - Georgia Institute of Technology - 2022-Present
- BSc: Electrical-Electronics Engineering - Bogazici University - 2018-2022
- High School: Math and Science - Kadikoy Anadolu High School - 2013-2018
Research Experience
- Firefly Team - Adobe - Advisor: Dr. Tobias Hinz - 2024 Summer - Present
- Rehg Lab - Georgia Institute of Technology - PhD Advisor: Prof. James Rehg - 2023 Spring - Present
- Visual Intelligence & Learning Lab - EPFL - Advisor: Asst. Prof. Amir Zamir - 2022 Summer
- Perceptual Intelligence Laboratory - Bogazici University - Advisor: Prof. Lale Akarun - 2021-2022
- Computer Vision Lab - ETH Zurich - Advisor: Prof. Ender Konukoglu - 2021-2022
- Nanonetworking Research Group - Bogazici University - Advisor: Prof. Ali Emre Pusane - 2020-2022
- Explainable Machine Learning Group - University of Tübingen - Advisor: Prof. Zeynep Akata - 2021 Spring
- Affective Intelligence & Robotics Lab - University of Cambridge - Advisors: Prof. Hatice Gunes and Dr. Nikhil Churamani - 2020 - 2021
Professional Experience
- Mentor: Google Summer of Code 2024 - Emory University - 2024 Summer
- Mentor: Google Summer of Code 2023 - Emory University - 2023 Summer
- AI Engineer: AiTerna Technologies - 2022-2024
- Mentor: Google Summer of Code 2022 - Emory University - 2022 Summer
- Contributor: Google Summer of Code 2021 - Emory University - 2021 Summer
- Summer Intern: Sestek - 2021 Summer
- Data Analyst Intern: ICRON - 2019 Summer
news
| Jun 16, 2024 | I am joining to CVPR’24 at Seattle with the highlight paper! Don’t forget to drop by our poster RAVE: Randomized Noise Shuffling for Fast and Consistent Video Editing with Diffusion Models which will take place on Wednesday, 19th, from 17:15 to 18:45 during Poster Session 2 in Exhibit Hall (Arch 4A-E). |
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| May 13, 2024 | I’ve started my internship at Adobe at San Jose, California, and working on text-to-video generation! |
| Apr 20, 2024 | I will be serving as a mentor in Google Summer of Code 2024 program this summer, on 2 projects. You can find the details of our projects at the following link: GitHub |
| Mar 18, 2024 | My undergraduate thesis Transfer Learning for Cross-dataset Isolated Sign Language Recognition in Under-Resourced Datasets is accepted into IEEE FG 2024! |
| Feb 26, 2024 | Our work RAVE is accepted into CVPR 2024! |
selected publications
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Towards Fair Affective Robotics: Continual Learning for Mitigating Bias in Facial Expression and Action Unit RecognitionIn Workshop on Lifelong Learning and Personalization in Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction (LEAP-HRI), 16th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Jun 2021
