Ali Furkan Biten

AI Researcher

Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain

About

There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, “What the hell is water?”

Experience

  • AI Research Engineer at Helsing
    Nov 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

  • Doctoral Student at Computer Vision Center
    Oct 2018 - Nov 2022 · 4 yrs 2 mos

    I started my new pre-doctoral fellowship contract with the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), supported by UAB from October 2018. I am expected to finalize my Ph.D thesis by October, 2022. My PhD research areas of interest include image captioning, visual question answering and cross-modal retrieval.

  • Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    Jun 2021 - Sep 2021 · 4 mos

    The key highlight of this internship was working on the state-of-the-art on scene-text visual question answering with primary focus on the interplay between language models and visual modality.

  • Research Intern at The University of Edinburgh
    Jul 2019 - Oct 2019 · 4 mos

    The research stay focused on the captioning of Wikipedia articles using vision and language based principles.

  • Intern at Computer Vision Center
    Mar 2017 - Mar 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Image captioning on historical archival data.