umut kaan kavaklı
Hi, I’m Umut! I am a Master’s student in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at Saarland University and a research assistant in the Computer Vision and Machine Learning (D2) department at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, Germany. My research interests lie at the intersection of computer vision, representation learning, generative modeling, and robot learning, with a particular interest in learning visual representations for robotic manipulation.
Before moving to Germany, I received my B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Eskişehir Technical University. During my undergraduate studies, I worked on computer vision and deep learning, particularly semi-supervised learning and medical image analysis.
news
| Apr 01, 2026 | Serving as a TA for High-Level Computer Vision and Statistical Natural Language Processing. |
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| Feb 01, 2026 | Started working as a Research Assistant at D2 MPII. |
| Nov 27, 2025 | Accepted at MenaML Winter School 2026. See you at KAUST! |
| Apr 01, 2025 | Started working as Research Assistant at DFKI. |
| Oct 01, 2024 | Started my Master’s degree in Data Science and AI at Saarland University. |
latest posts
| Jan 10, 2026 | Online Softmax in Attention Mechanism |
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| Sep 18, 2025 | Backpropagation Through Matrix Multiplication |