Semih Barutcu, PhD

Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Uber

New York, New York, United States

About

Received Ph.D. from Northwestern University with a focus in algorithm development for inverse problems, deep learning, and computer vision. Working as a Machine Learning Engineer at Uber.

Experience

  • Uber (New York, New York, United States)
    • Senior Machine Learning Engineer
      Jan 2026 - Present · 6 mos

      Rider Pricing Intelligence

    • Machine Learning Engineer II
      Sep 2022 - Dec 2025 · 3 yrs 4 mos

      Rider Pricing Intelligence

  • Image Processing and Deep Learning Research Assistant at Northwestern University
    Sep 2017 - Aug 2022 · 5 yrs

    - Developing deep learning techniques for computational microscopic imaging methods, combining x-ray ptychography, computational tomography, and laminography. - Building neural networks for detection of Covid-19 and Cardiac Amyloidosis from chest x-rays. - Improving segmentation of lung lesions in CT via encoder-decoder networks. - Exploring machine learning solutions to problems in computer vision and biomedical imaging

  • Ph.D. Software Engineer Intern at Uber
    Jun 2021 - Sep 2021 · 4 mos

    - Optimize near-real time streaming pipelines for business critical ML Features and metrics. - Onboard micro-services to tracing platform, and implement error categorization together with exception types for improving debuggability.

  • Senior Computational Science Intern at Argonne National Laboratory
    Jun 2020 - Sep 2020 · 4 mos

    - Creating deep Generative Adverserial Networks (GANs) for elimination of missing wedge problem in inverse computation tomography and laminography.

  • Computational Science Intern at Argonne National Laboratory
    Jun 2018 - Aug 2018 · 3 mos

    - Developing and implementing an iterative algorithm on direct coupling of computational tomography and x-ray ptychography