Aytek Aman

Aytek Aman is a Senior Research Engineer at Imagination Technologies, focusing on Computer Graphics, GPU, and Ray-tracing since January 2022. Prior to this role, Aytek served as a Research Assistant at Bilkent University from September 2011 to July 2022, specializing in Ray-tracing, Augmented Reality, and Crowd Simulation. Aytek is the founder of Deepscope Ultrasound Simulator, which operated from October 2018 to December 2021, and contributed to the appleseed renderer from March 2017 to September 2019, optimizing the physically based lighting engine and improving UI features. Additional experience includes a Summer Internship at Kodobur Game and Education Technologies, game programming at Animax, and another Summer Internship at Taleworlds Entertainment. Aytek holds a PhD in Computer Science from Bilkent University, completed in June 2022, along with an MS and BSc in the same field from the same institution, with earlier education at İzmir Fen Lisesi.