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Contact Information
| Name | Ahmet Canberk Baykal |
| Professional Title | PhD Researcher |
| acb228@cam.ac.uk | |
| Phone | |
| Location | Cambridge, United Kingdom |
Professional Summary
PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Cambridge. Researching 3D Computer Vision, including 3D capture and reconstruction. Also interested in image generation and editing, and natural language processing.
Experience
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2025 - 2026 London, UK
Research Scientist Intern
Adobe Research
- Supervisor: Iliyan Georgiev
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2023 - Cambridge, UK
PhD Researcher
University of Cambridge – CORE Lab
Research in 3D Computer Vision, including 3D capture and reconstruction.
- Supervisor: Prof. Cengiz Öztireli
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2020 - 2023 Istanbul, Türkiye
Graduate Researcher
Koç University – KUIS AI Center
Research at the intersection of Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing, focusing on language-guided image generation and manipulation.
- Supervisors: Prof. Aykut Erdem and Prof. Deniz Yuret
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2019 - 2019 Ankara, Türkiye
Summer Intern
Aselsan
VHDL Design and Verification Techniques.
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2018 - 2018 Ankara, Türkiye
Summer Intern
INFINIA Mühendislik
LED controls on a Model Automation System using Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ and LED control interface using ESP8266 Wi-Fi Module.
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2023 - Cambridge, UK
Supervisor
University of Cambridge – Computer Science Department
Supervisions for Machine Learning and Bayesian Inference.
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2020 - 2023 Istanbul, Türkiye
Teaching Assistant
Koç University – KUIS AI Center
Teaching assistant for multiple graduate and undergraduate courses.
- COMP106 – Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science and Engineering
- COMP547 – Deep Unsupervised Learning
- COMP202 – Data Structures and Algorithms
- COMP527 – Computational Imaging
Education
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2023 - Cambridge, UK
PhD
University of Cambridge
Computer Science
- Research Areas: Computer Vision, Computer Graphics
- Cambridge Trust & Computer Science Premium Scholarship
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2020 - 2022 Istanbul, Türkiye
M.Sc.
Koç University
Computer Science and Engineering
- Deep Learning
- Computer Vision with Deep Learning
- Natural Language Processing
- Deep Unsupervised Learning
- Advances in Deep Learning
- CGPA: 4.00 / 4.00
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2016 - 2020 Ankara, Türkiye
B.S.
Bilkent University
Electrical and Electronics Engineering
- Introduction to Machine Learning
- Artificial Intelligence
- Neural Networks
- CGPA: 3.70 / 4.00
- Bilkent University Comprehensive Scholarship (100% tuition)
Awards
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2023 Cambridge Trust & Computer Science Premium Scholarship
University of Cambridge
Full PhD scholarship covering tuition and living costs, 2023–2026.
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2022 TensorFlow Developer Certificate
Google
2022–2025.
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2020 AI Fellowship
KUIS AI Center, Koç University
2020–2023.
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2020 TÜBİTAK National M.Sc. Scholarship Program
TÜBİTAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey)
2020–2022.
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2019 2nd Place – IEEEXtreme Turkey Camp Contest
IEEE
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2016 Bilkent University Comprehensive Scholarship
Bilkent University
Covers 100% of tuition and monthly stipends, 2016–2020.
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2016 Scholarship of the Turkish Prime Ministry
Turkish Prime Ministry
Monthly stipends for outstanding performance in the Nationwide University Entrance Exam (LYS), 2016–2020.
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2016 Top 100 Nationwide – University Entrance Exam LYS
ÖSYM (Turkish Student Selection & Placement Center)
Ranked 38th in LYS and 51st in YGS among approximately 2 million students in Turkey.
Publications
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2026 ResEdit: Residual Embeddings for Precise Generative Image Editing
Eurographics Symposium on Rendering (EGSR)
Ahmet Canberk Baykal, Valentin Deschaintre, Yannick Hold-Geoffroy, Michael Fischer, Anna Frühstück, Cengiz Öztireli, Iliyan Georgiev.
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2026 Quartet of Diffusions: Structure-Aware Point Cloud Generation through Part and Symmetry Guidance
ICLR 2026
Chenliang Zhou, Fangcheng Zhong, Weihao Xia, Albert Miao, Canberk Baykal, Cengiz Oztireli.
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2024 HyperGAN-CLIP: A Unified Framework for Domain Adaptation, Image Synthesis and Manipulation
SIGGRAPH Asia 2024
Abdul Basit Anees, Ahmet Canberk Baykal, Muhammed Burak Kizil, Duygu Ceylan, Erkut Erdem, Aykut Erdem.
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2023 CLIP-Guided StyleGAN Inversion for Text-Driven Real Image Editing
ACM Transactions on Graphics (presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2023)
Ahmet Canberk Baykal, Abdul Basit Anees, Duygu Ceylan, Erkut Erdem, Aykut Erdem, Deniz Yuret.
Skills
Languages
Interests
Certificates
- TensorFlow Developer Certificate - Google (2022)