Sami Alperen Akgün

Sami Alperen Akgün's work experience is as follows:

- Currently working as a Robotics Software Developer at Kindred, Part of Ocado Group, starting in February 2023.

- Previously worked as a Robotics Software Engineer at Robotic Assistance Devices from December 2021 to February 2023.

- Served as a Graduate Researcher at the Social and Intelligent Robotics Research Lab -SIRRL from August 2019 to September 2021. Responsibilities included collaborating with a multi-disciplinary and international team, conducting research on robot-assisted search and rescue, developing algorithms for various robots using ROS with Python and C++, and setting up robots and servers in the lab.

- Worked as a Graduate Research Assistant at the same lab from January 2020 to April 2020.

- Worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Waterloo from May 2020 to August 2021 and from January 2021 to April 2021. Responsibilities included assisting in teaching undergraduate courses.

- Worked as an Undergraduate Researcher at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi from October 2018 to June 2019. Responsibilities included designing and building a robotic platform, developing ROS drivers, and comparing SLAM approaches in ROS.

- Also served as a Teaching Assistant at the same university from October 2018 to January 2019.

- Worked as an Undergraduate Researcher at METU EE Robotics And Control Lab from January 2018 to June 2019. Responsibilities included developing a novel Exact Kalman Filter for respiratory motion tracking.

- Served as a Student Mentor at Robotics and Automation Society at IEEE METU Student Branch from September 2015 to June 2019.

- Worked as a Research Intern at Imperial College London from July 2018 to October 2018. Responsibilities included creating a dataset of motion for 3D motion segmentation and transferring code for real-time imitation learning on iCub.

- Worked as an Undergraduate Researcher at ODTÜ Computer Vision and Neural Networks Lab from October 2015 to January 2018. Responsibilities included employing image processing techniques and CNN for vessel segmentation in retina images and classifying Retinopathy of Prematurity with CNN.

- Served as a Project Engineer at Robotics and Automation Society at IEEE ODTÜ Öğrenci Kolu from October 2016 to October 2017. Responsibilities included achieving human action recognition and controlling a robotic arm with RGB-D video input.

Note: The information for the Robotics Software Developer role at Kindred, Part of Ocado Group is incomplete, as the end date is not specified.

Sami Alperen Akgün completed their Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi / Middle East Technical University from 2014 to 2019. Sami Alperen then pursued a Master's of Applied Science (MaSC) degree in Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo from 2019 to 2021.

In addition to their formal education, Sami Alperen Akgün has obtained various certifications. In October 2022, they completed the "Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization" course from Coursera. In July 2022, they also completed the "Neural Networks and Deep Learning" course from Coursera. In June 2022, they completed the "Stanford Online: Machine Learning" course from Coursera. Moreover, they obtained a certification in "PLCnext- Next Generation PLC" from Code and Compile in October 2021, and a certification in "Problem Solving" from HackerRank in January 2021. Additionally, they are a member of Ten Thousand Coffees, an organization focused on networking and professional development.