Onur Dogan
Onur Dogan

Onur Dogan

Machine Learning Engineer at Lifemote

About

I am a Machine Learning Engineer at Lifemote, where I develop AI solutions for telecommunications analytics. I work across the full MLOps lifecycle, from data and model training to deployment, working with LLMs, multimodal models, and time-series models. My work includes productionizing scalable LLM/ML pipelines on AWS and orchestrating large-scale inference.

I completed my MSc in Computer Science and Engineering at Sabancı University under the supervision of Öznur Taştan and Mehmet Keleş from Johns Hopkins University. My thesis, CoFINE: Hierarchy-Aware Semi-Supervised Learning for Fine-Grained Behavioral Classification, focused on learning from limited labelled data in fine-grained and hierarchical classification settings.

Before Lifemote, I worked on computer vision for robotics, with a focus on robotic perception. My work included real-time segmentation, automated data annotation, simulation-based data collection with NVIDIA Isaac Sim, and building perception pipelines for real-world robotic systems.

I also have a research background in computational biology, where I worked on graph and ML methods for RNA-seq, single-cell RNA-seq, and protein sequence data.

My experience spans computer vision, multimodal learning, time-series modelling, LLMs, and production ML systems. I am especially interested in building reliable learning systems and developing methods that make AI systems more robust, adaptive, and trustworthy in real-world settings.

Experience

Machine Learning Engineer · Lifemote Jun 2025 — Present

Develop end-to-end AI solutions for telecommunications analytics.

Computer Vision Engineer · Arioviz Dec 2024 — Jun 2025

Worked on real-time segmentation and assisted labeling for a robotics perception stack.

Junior Data Scientist · John Snow Labs Sep 2023 — Mar 2024

Contributed to the open-source NLU library and to Spark NLP for Healthcare.

Junior ML Engineer · GrainFox Mar 2023 — Jun 2023

Built and deployed a document information extraction service into the production pipeline.

Research Experience

Graduate Researcher · Sabanci University 2025 — 2026

Hierarchy-aware semi-supervised learning, and NLP applications in computational biology under supervision of Assoc. Prof. Oznur Tastan.

Undergraduate Research Assistant · Antalya Bilim University 2020 — 2023

Single-cell RNA-seq integration and gene co-expression networks under supervision of Prof. Hilal Kazan.

Publications

O. Doğan, Ö. H. Batum, A. Sönmez, B. Yılmaz — IEEE BalkanCom

A. Houdjedj, Y. Marouf, M. Myradov, S. O. Doğan et al. — BMC Bioinformatics

M. U. Kahraman*, S. O. Doğan* et al. — New Design Ideas

Sex-biased Expression of Neuroimmune Guidance Cues in Cardiovascular Diseases 2022

Y. Marouf, S. O. Doğan et al. — presented at ERA-CVD and HIBIT

Projects

VLA failure prediction

Predicting when vision-language-action models are likely to fail in robotic decision-making.

GNNs for money laundering detection

Graph neural networks over transaction graphs, for the Scalable Learning Systems course.

Domain generalization for anomaly detection

Surface defect detection that transfers to material types it wasn't trained on.