Pelinsu Acar

Pelinsu Acar

Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Experience

Master’s Thesis Student

CNH INDUSTRIAL BELGIUM NV

March 2024 – December 2024 · Belgium

  • Conducted research on Zero-Shot and Open-Vocabulary Object Detection (ZSOD and OSD) for agricultural applications, focusing on crop kernel detection to enable real-time grain loss assessment.
  • Evaluated state-of-the-art models (OWLv2 and YOLO-World) using different query embedding techniques (CLIP, DINOv2) to asses kernel detection performance.

    • AI Intern

    MLPS AD

    August 2023 – September 2023 · Bulgaria (Remote)

  • Developed a license plate recognition system as part of an internship, leveraging OpenCV for image processing and Tesseract OCR for text extraction to accurately detect and recognize alphanumeric characters.
  • Implemented a BRISQUE-based no-reference image quality assessment system using Python, leveraging OpenCV, SciPy, and libSVM to calculate quality scores and identify the best-quality images from a user-provided dataset.
  • Implemented object detection using a pre-trained SSD MobileNet model, enhanced with Grad-CAM for class activation visualization, and developed a color detection pipeline leveraging K-Means clustering and RGB matching for precise feature-based analysis.

    • Junior Big Data Engineer

    NTT DATA Business Solutions

    December 2021 – August 2022 · Istanbul, Turkey

  • Worked on the DMP project for ZF Global as a data engineering consultant.
  • Designed and implemented data transformation scripts with PySpark and SQL through Databricks and Synapse.
  • Integrated new source systems (manufacturing execution systems) into a common unified data model, improving data consistency and reliability for the serving layer, which is an angular app + PowerBI report showing OEE for respective plant.
  • Following CI/CD principles and maintaining development, staging and production environments for the product.
  • Ensured the stability of the product through bug fixing and performance improvements.
  • Implementing important data engineering concepts such as row level security, multi hop architecture, fault tolerant data ingestion, test driven development, proper documentation and version control.
  • Collaborated effectively with a multinational team & customer through pair programming, knowledge transfer and sprint DEMO sessions.

    • Candidate Engineer

    HAVELSAN

    March 2021 – December 2021 · Ankara, Turkey

  • Contributed to the autonomous ground vehicle project (BARKAN), focusing on network design.
  • Implemented VLAN tagging, GRE tunnel, and OSPF protocol on Linux using Quagga software.

    • Summer Intern

    HAVELSAN

    Summer 2020 · Ankara, Turkey

  • Worked at the Robotic and Autonomous Systems Department.
  • Implemented OSPF protocol for mesh networks on Cisco Packet Tracer.
  • Attended training sessions on project management, test engineering, and cyber security.

    • Summer Intern

    ROKETSAN

    Summer 2019 · Ankara, Turkey

  • Worked at the Launching System Design Department.
  • Implemented UART communication protocol using VHDL on Vivado and tested on PicoZed FMC Carrier Card.