Berken Utku Demirel

I am currently a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, supervised by Professor Christian Holz. My research focuses on learning theory and signal processing, aiming to design robust machine learning algorithms with minimal supervision by developing self-supervised and unsupervised learning methods for temporal data using invariant theory and harmonic analysis.

Before beginning my Ph.D., I earned my Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Middle East Technical University (METU) with a specialization in signal processing. I then pursued a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the University of California, Irvine, where I worked on designing real-time systems and algorithms, focusing on signal processing and machine learning for resource-constrained mobile systems, such as wearable devices.