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About Candidate

I am Cenk Kerem Cengiz, a fourth-year student in the department of Computer Engineering at Middle East Technical University. I have been interested in Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning since I started studying computer engineering. Throughout my education, I have completed several internships to learn theoretical and practical aspects of AI. I especially took AI-related technical elective courses and tried to gain hands-on experience through programming assignments. I am currently working on Parameter-efficient fine-tuning of Vision Language models (CLIP and SLIP), and ranking based loss functions.

Education

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Undergraduate 2021-2026
Middle East Technical University

Computer Engineering

Experiences

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Undergraduate Researcher October 2023 - October 2024
ROMER (Robotics and AI Centre of METU)

Worked on the RoboRoyale Project (EU). Created a local weather station using Arduino, Raspberry Pi and sensors, and integrated the system with ROS2.

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Research Intern July 2024 - Present
METU ImageLab

Conducting research on the class imbalance problem in Computer Vision (DENGE Project). Working on the SLIP and CLIP models to improve its accuracy, fine-tuning it for downstream tasks (using parameter efficient finetuning methods, such as LoRA), and studying its robustness against highly imbalanced data

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