short cv

education

PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
2026 – Present
College Park, MD, USA
MSc in Computer Engineering, Bilkent University
2022 – 2025
Ankara, Türkiye
BSc in Computer Engineering, Bilkent University
2017 – 2022
Ankara, Türkiye
  • GPA: 3.69/4.00

experience

Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Maryland
2026 – Present
College Park, MD, USA
  • ENEE350 - Computer Organization.
AI Engineer, HAVELSAN
2022 – 2026
Ankara, Türkiye
  • Built an LLM-based orchestration layer for command-and-control applications and databases.
  • Developed deep learning systems for autonomous driving.
  • Worked on object detection, backend systems, and multimodal methods for maritime applications.
Part-time Software Developer, Visover Software Technologies
2020 – 2022
Ankara, Türkiye
  • Parallelized an exemplar-based object removal algorithm with RenderScript.
  • Built a gradient widget and a brush tool for a background changer app.
  • Built a waveform-based audio player widget for a video editor app.
Research Intern, ETH Zurich
2020
Zurich, Switzerland
  • Accelerated the ntHash algorithm using Intel SIMD instructions.

publications

Trident: Detecting Face Forgeries with Domain-adversarial Triplet Learning
2026
Mustafa Hakan Kara, Aysegul Dundar, Uğur Güdükbay
IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
Synchronizing IMU and Camera with Angular Velocity Matching
2025
Mustafa Hakan Kara, Ahmet Samet Halıcı, Nazlı Sıla Özakca, Arda İynem
33rd Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU)
Automatic Class Labeling Method for Ships with Known Location
2025
Orhan Ayran, Ahmet Samet Halıcı, Ahmet Adil Cihangeri, Dilruba Nilhan Kutlu, Mustafa Hakan Kara
33rd Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU)

patents

An Automatic Annotation Method for Point Clouds in Autonomous Systems, 2024/017674
2024
A Synthetic Radar Data Generation and Comparison Method for Autonomous Systems, 2024/017660
2024