Yavuz Yarici

I am a Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech, advised by Prof. Ghassan AlRegib in the OLIVES Lab. My research focuses on multimodal machine learning, domain generalization, and human activity recognition. I have completed two research internships at Amazon Lab126, where in Summer 2025 I worked on multi-modal egocentric vision-language models for long-video understanding, and in Summer 2026 I built and deployed an on-device multi-modal machine learning model for next-generation devices.

Prior to joining Georgia Tech, I received my B.S. from Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. Some of my specific works include:

• Multimodal Domain Generalization (ICML 2026): MER-DG: Modality-Entropy Regularization for Multimodal Domain Generalization
• Domain Generalization for Human Activity Recognition (MLSP 2025): Subject Invariant Contrastive Learning for Human Activity Recognition
• Multimodal Activity Understanding (DMLR 2025): Hierarchical and Multimodal Data for Daily Activity Understanding