Computer Science @ Drexel University

Eray Aktokluk

AI & Computer Vision researcher, working on diverse topics from pathology image classification to embedded programming for robotics. Computer Science student at Drexel University, expected June 2027.

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Project Showcase (2013-2021)

Experience

AI Researcher for TDP43 Histology Images using Self-Supervised Learning

University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia

Apr 2026 - Sep 2026

NASA Drexel HASP Payload Software Lead

Drexel University · Philadelphia

Mar 2026 - Sep 2026

AI Researcher for TDP43 Protein in Dementia Research using Supervised Learning

University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia

Apr 2025 - Sep 2025

Computer Vision Engineer Co-op

Kulicke and Soffa · Philadelphia

Apr 2024 - Sep 2024

STAR 2023 Scholar, and ML Researcher

Combination Algorithm for Decision Making A.I · Philadelphia

Jun 2023 - Aug 2023

Internship for Physics Simulation SDK Release

RTDynamics · Germany

Jun 2020 - Oct 2020

Bachelor of Science: Computer Science

Drexel University

Expected Jun 2027

Research Interests

Self-Supervised Learning

  • Learning visual representations from unlabeled images.
  • Learning shared representations across audio and images.

Synthetic Data for Vision and Histology

  • Training vision foundation models entirely on synthetic data.
  • Using real histology images to generate synthetic training data.

Vision Foundation Model Architectures

  • Exploring mixture-of-experts architectures to improve generalization.
  • Designing smaller vision foundation models for embedded devices.

Adaptive Fault Protection

  • Combining decision trees with transformers to adapt fault protection to changing conditions.

Awards & Competitions

AI-Powered Frisbee Rescue Robot

DevFest 2025 - Best Beginner Project Award

2025

Smart Headphone for People with Autism to Decrease Auditory Sensory Overload

PennApps XXV - Best Overall, 1st Place

2024

AI-Powered Robot for Early ADHD Detection

HopHacks Fall 2024 - General Overall, 2nd Place

2024

Computer Vision and LLM Powered Interface for People with Locked-in Syndrome

DragonHacks 2024 - Entertainment Track Winner

2024

Using Deep Learning to Create Better Plans for High School Students

Mission Possible - Runner-Up Prize

2020

Leadership, Patents & Teaching

Leadership

Project Manager for Research Project

Deep Ocean Exploration Robot

Nov 2024 - May 2024

Director for a Short Movie

SACLiveTV

Jan 2020 - Jun 2021

Patents

Wristband System for Navigating Visually Impaired People to Safety during Fire

Turkey

2018

Teaching Experience

Course Assistant for Computer Science

Drexel College of Computing & Informatics

2023 - 2024

Instructor and Organizer of a Workshop

Introduction to Embedded Programming

2020

Main Instructor for an Udemy Course

Artificial Intelligence 101 - 500 Students

2019

Speaker, Paragon Young Innovators

"How did I learn programming at 8 years old?" - Boğaziçi University

2018

Technical Skills

Embedded Programming

  • Arduino
  • Raspberry Pi
  • ESP-IDF
  • MPLAB
  • MikroC
  • Embedded C

Backend Programming

  • PHP
  • Django
  • Node.js
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Firebase
  • Go

Frontend Programming

  • Bootstrap 5
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • React.js
  • JavaScript
  • Java
  • C#

Machine Learning

  • Python
  • C++
  • TensorFlow
  • Keras
  • OpenCV
  • Scikit-Learn