short cv

education

Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
2026 – Present
College Park, MD, USA
M.S. in Computer Engineering, Bilkent University
2022 – 2025
Ankara, Türkiye
B.S. 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
  • ENEE 350 – Computer Organization
Machine Learning Engineer (Full-time), HAVELSAN
2022 – 2026
Ankara, Türkiye
  • Agentic AI Orchestration: Led the development of an LLM-based platform that embeds AI agents into existing applications and orchestrates them as a unified system.
  • Maritime Navigation Assistant: Built the perception module for obstacle detection and segmentation, and the backend services that raise alerts for route deviations and potential collision risks.
  • Autonomous Ground Vehicle: Developed deep learning-based perception for autonomous driving, and designed methods for point-cloud annotation (patented) and IMU–camera synchronization.
  • Autonomous Surface Vehicle: Designed an algorithmic horizon stabilizer that works without a gimbal.
  • Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT): Developed novel deepfake detection and naval ship identification methods.
Software Developer (Part-time), Visover
2020 – 2022
Ankara, Türkiye
  • Worked mainly on AI Cut Pro, a background editor app with on-device AI face segmentation that reached over 100K users in its first 6 months.
  • Parallelized an exemplar-based image inpainting algorithm to run on Android devices.
  • Built a gradient widget and a brush tool.
  • Developed a waveform-based audio player widget for a video editor app.
Research Intern, ETH Zurich
2020
Zurich, Switzerland
  • Accelerated ntHash, a rolling hash function for DNA sequence analysis, 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 IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference
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 IEEE Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference

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