Mertcan Cokbas is a Research Scientist specializing in Machine Learning at Instagram, a position started in November 2023. Previous experience includes internships as a Data Science Software Engineer at Motional, where Mertcan developed a 3D object reconstruction pipeline, and as a Software Engineer Intern at Meta, contributing to video transformation features for Instagram Reels. Mertcan also worked at Yahoo, implementing a user action-prediction ML model, and held a Teaching Assistant role at Sabanci University. Educationally, Mertcan earned a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Boston University, alongside a Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering from Sabanci University, demonstrating a strong academic foundation with high GPAs. Research projects have included Person Re-Identification using fisheye cameras and people-counting with low-resolution thermal sensors.
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