Hi! I’m Idil,

a Research Scientist at Deltia. I obtained my master’s in Informatics (Computer Science) at Technical University of Munich (TUM) and bachelor’s in Computer Engineering from Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara. My interests broadly include computer vision and deep learning. Specifically, my research interests lie in 2D/3D computer vision, 3D object & scene understanding, multimodal learning and deep learning with minimal supervision.

Through my master’s degree, I had the chance to work on self-supervised vehicle control at TUM Computer Vision Group under Prof. Daniel Cremers. Additionally, I completed my master’s thesis titled “Compositional Zero-shot Point Cloud Classification with Vision-Language Model Embeddings” at TUM CAMP Chair under the supervision of PD Dr. Federico Tombari.

In my free time, I like reading books, cycling and blogging:

🚴‍♀️ Cycling is one of the things that make me happy the most since my childhood. I participated in bike tours and even an MTB race in the past. Recently, I decided to go back to this good old habit of mine and bought myself a low-cost gravel bike. I frequently use Strava to log my cycling exercises, so feel free to check it out.

📚 Too many books, too little time! Lately, I came to the realization that even if I read 20 books every year, I can only finish 1000 books in 50 years which is a very little number when you think about all the books that you can find in a library. So, I started to read as regularly as I can. You can follow my recent books and reading challenges on Goodreads.

👩‍💻 Blogging is one of the things that motivates me the most to continue what I have been doing whether it be research, work or my hobbies. I started my blog as part of a DEI initiative in 2018, but I have recently merged it under my personal website for further customization.