Yavuz Yarici

Yavuz Yarici

Ph.D. Student in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology | OLIVES Lab

Advisor: Prof. Ghassan AlRegib

About Me

I am a Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, working in the OLIVES Lab under the mentorship of Prof. Ghassan AlRegib. My research focuses on machine learning, computer vision, and image processing, with particular emphasis on representation learning and human activity recognition.

Prior to joining Georgia Tech, I received my B.Sc. from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. I am passionate about developing intelligent systems that can understand and interpret visual information, with applications in activity recognition, representation learning, and multimodal data processing.

Research Interests

Machine Learning Computer Vision Image Processing Representation Learning Human Activity Recognition Contrastive Learning Multimodal Learning

Publications

Professional Experience

Graduate Research Assistant

OLIVES Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology

2022 – Present

Applied Science Intern

Amazon Lab126

May 2025 – Dec 2025

Research Engineer

Hyperbee AI

2021 – 2022

Part-Time Research Engineer

Nurol Machine

2022

Undergraduate Researcher

ICON Lab

2020 – 2022

Education

Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology

Atlanta, GA, USA

2022 – Present

Bachelor of Science

Bilkent University

Ankara, Turkey

2018 – 2022

Contact

Office

Georgia Institute of Technology

Atlanta, GA, USA