I am a Senior Research & Development Engineer at Sestek, where I work on speech processing, speech recognition, speech synthesis, speaker recognition, and audio classification, and on getting these models into production. I've spent the last years training and deploying speech models on real call-center audio.

I hold an MS in Computer Science from Hacettepe University, where my thesis focused on retrieving relevant segments from instructional cooking videos to improve their accessibility. Before that, I completed my BS at Hacettepe, where my final project, Flying Assistant, used deep neural networks and computer vision to help people with visual impairments navigate.

Experience

Senior Research & Development Engineer

Jan 2024 – present
Sestek

Research & Development Engineer

Sep 2020 – Jan 2024
Sestek

Research & Development Intern

Jun 2020 – Aug 2020
Sestek

Computer Vision Engineer (Part-time)

Nov 2019 – Feb 2020
ArgosAI

Computer Vision Intern

Jul 2018 – Aug 2018
ArgosAI

Education

MS in Computer Science

Sep 2021 – Aug 2024
Hacettepe University

Thesis: a system to retrieve relevant video segments from instructional cooking videos, focusing on enhancing accessibility.

BS in Computer Science

Sep 2015 – Oct 2020
Hacettepe University

Final project: Flying Assistant - an industrial prototype, built with a three-person team, leveraging deep neural networks and computer vision to assist individuals with visual impairments.

Selected Publications

  1. A Comprehensive Objective Evaluation of Modern Text-to-Speech for Turkish Using Speech Quality Assessment Models
    Yunus Emre Ozkose, Alperen Kahraman, Ali Haznedaroglu
    International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM26)
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  2. Enhancing Speech Recognition Through Text-to-Speech and Voice Conversion Augmentation
    Yunus Emre Ozkose, Ali Haznedaroglu
    International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM25)
    pdf
  3. Leveraging the Pre-Trained Whisper Encoder for Multilingual Language Identification
    Yunus Emre Ozkose, Ali Haznedaroglu
    International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering (UBMK25)
    pdf
  4. Automatic Data Augmentation for Cooking Videos
    Yunus Emre Özköse, Pınar Duygulu
    Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU24)
    pdf
  5. Diverse Neural Photo Album Summarization
    Yunus Emre Özköse, Bora Celikkale, Erkut Erdem, Aykut Erdem
    International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications (IPTA19)
    pdf

Talks & Activities

  • Talk: TRAI

    Jan 2024

    Presented insights on voice cloning at a TRAI meeting on behalf of Sestek. Watch →

  • Talk: BAYOYO 2022, Science Academy

    Jun 2022

    Presented recent speech processing models (SR, TTS, speaker recognition) on behalf of Sestek. Event page →

  • Workshop Tutor: Speech Recognition in Python

    Mar 2021

    Taught a lesson on speech recognition for the Hacettepe AI Community. Watch →

  • Talk: AI Everywhere

    Nov 2020

    Discussed artificial intelligence from the perspective of a computer engineer. Watch →

  • Founding Chairman, HU Artificial Intelligence Society

    Jun 2018 – Jun 2020

    Set the vision and organized educational events and workshops promoting AI research within the university.