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2026 - Present                              Analog Devices                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Malmö, Sweden

                                                        Staff AI/ML Engineer (R&D)

• Architecting compact neural video codec and audio/speech models for Edge AI, using knowledge distillation, quantization, and pruning to fit tight memory and compute budgets.

2025 - 2026                                   Independent Projects and Prototypes                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Malmö, Sweden

Senior AI/ML Engineer (R&D)

Owned design, implementation, and validation of AI/ML systems through rapid prototyping and applied R&D.

• Cloud-Native Agentic RAG: Built multimodal documentation assistant on Google Cloud (GCP), where a LangGraph agent analyzes each query, retrieves across text and image embeddings, and curates the context for grounded generation.

• Voice AI Hackathon (Google Cloud × Telavox, 2025): Joint 1st place among 6 teams; built a customer-support voice agent on Dialogflow CX.

• Real-Time Conversational Voice AI: Fine-tuned a direct speech-to-speech conversational model with NVIDIA NeMo, bypassing the ASR→LLM→TTS cascade, and built a synthetic data pipeline (generated dialogue scripts voiced with NVIDIA Riva TTS) for fine-tuning and evaluation.

• Multimodal AI for XR Wearables: Optimized tinyML and small language models (SLMs) using PyTorch for C++ based, low-latency embedded deployment.

• Acoustic AI: Developed PyTorch-based drone detection models for security and defense applications.

2023 - 2025                                   Huawei                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Lund, Sweden

Senior AI/ML Engineer (R&D)

• Semantic Communication for 6G: Led AI research for wireless systems, reducing image degradation under channel errors from 20% to 3% using specialized multimedia transmission models. 

• Neural Audio Codecs (NACs): Built transformer-based AI models for high-efficiency, low-bitrate audio transmission over unreliable wireless links.

• Edge-to-Cloud Orchestration: Designed frameworks coordinating SLMs on edge devices with large language models (LLMs) in the cloud, enabling dynamic routing based on channel quality.

• Hardware-Software Co-design: Collaborated with hardware engineers to optimize AI model implementation, focusing on latency, resource constraints, and hybrid mobile-cloud deployment.

2021 - 2023                                    BeammWave   https://www.beammwave.com/                                                                                                                                                                                                     Lund, Sweden

Algorithm Expert

• 5G Physical Layer Algorithms: Researched and developed advanced 3GPP-compliant algorithms for 5G NR networks, specifically focusing on digital beamforming and channel estimation. 

• Hardware Integration (RF-SoC): Partnered with hardware teams to port and validate algorithms on Xilinx RF-SoC platforms, ensuring production-ready implementation.

• System Performance Optimization: Conducted extensive validation in real-world test environments to bridge theoretical algorithm design with practical hardware constraints.

2019 - 2021                                    Lund University                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Lund, Sweden 

Researcher at ICARUS 

Conducted research on machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms for the expedition project entitled intelligent cell-free access for wireless ubiquitous services (ICARUS) funded by Wallenberg AI, autonomous systems and software program (WASP).

• Developed ML-based joint analog beam selection and digital beamforming for mmWave cell-free massive MIMO systems. Achieved equivalent performance to brute-force methods at 1/8th the computational cost using deep learning.

• Proposed sparse mmWave channel estimation using expectation-maximization and sparse Bayesian learning (vector approximate message).

• Designed joint user / access point selection and beamforming in cell-free networks by sparse group LASSO solution.

• Introduced NCISTA+FCSA, a novel iterative thresholding algorithm for MR image reconstruction.

2016 - 2019                                    Academia Sinica                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Taipei, Taiwan

Research Fellow and Instructor at Research Center for Information Technology Innovation

Conducted research on resource allocation in MIMO relay networks. Course instructor of the Ph.D. course Probability and Statistics for 3 semesters.

• Proposed distributed beamforming solutions in wireless relay networks by utilizing alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM). 

2012 - 2016                                   Selcuk University (formerly Mevlana University)                                                                                                                                                                                                 Konya, Türkiye

Asst. Prof. at Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department

Course instructor in B.Sc. and M.Sc.* grades: (Advanced*) wireless communications, communications engineering, satellite communications, (advanced*) computer networks (CISCO-certified lab), signals and systems, probability theory, numerical analysis, and circuit theory. 

2011 - 2012                                   Nanyang Technological University                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Singapore

 Research Fellow at INFINITUS-Infocomm Center of Excellence Lab.      

• Conducted research on interference alignment (IA) at finite SNR and blind IA beamforming.

• Established and completed a joint work with Prof. Rui Zhang at National University of Singapore. 

2010 - 2011                                   Hong Kong University of Science and Technology                                                                                                                                                                                                        Hong Kong

Research Associate at Huawei Innovation Lab.

• Researched wireless networks with constrained backhauls and feedback-based interference alignment beamforming.

• Collaborated with a team of six to develop a USRP-based testbed for 4G IMT-Advanced wireless systems.

2003 - 2007                                    Turk Telekom    www.turktelekom.com.tr (formerly AVEA)                                                                                                                                                                        İstanbul, Türkiye

Value Added Services (VAS) Department 

• AVEA (now part of Türk Telekom) was one of the top 3 wireless service providers in Turkey. 

• Held rotational responsibilities in operation and planning groups including Short Message Services (SMS), Multimedia Messaging (MMS), Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD), Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), Blackberry, Wi-LAN, Voice Message Services (VMS), Interactive Voice Response (IVR), and SIM Cards and Handsets:

  • Held leading roles in operation, optimization, upgrade, maintenance and planning of network and server architecture.

  • Participated in the launch and implementation of numerous services and projects including Blackberry, Wi-LAN and Symbian software, etc.

  • Researched new services and technology trends in the industry and across competitors, provided strategic report to senior management.

  • Monitored and reported monthly network and server activity and usage statistics in detailed and executive formats.