The Beyond Academia: AI & Data Science Applications seminar series at the University of Cambridge explores the transformative role of data and artificial intelligence in the world. Designed for postgraduate researchers, early-career academics, and students, the series bridges the gap between high-level research and real-world deployment. Through invited talks from Leaders and Professionals, the series delivers insights into non-academic career pathways and examines the technical, architectural, and operational challenges and opportunities of implementing AI innovation in organisations. The seminars are highly engaging sessions with plenty of opportunity for Q&A with the speaker.

Speaker

Mehmet Kerim Yucel, AI Research Lead

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Biography

Mehmet Kerim Yücel is an AI research leader working on the frontier of generative AI, computer vision, and multimodal foundation models. As AI Research Manager and Technical Lead at Canva, he leads a team of researchers developing next-generation video generation, editing, and 3D world generation technologies that bridge cutting-edge research with products used by millions of people worldwide. With over a decade of experience spanning global technology companies including Canva, Samsung Research, Huawei, and the defence sector, he has led the development of AI systems that translate state-of-the-art research into real-world products while building and mentoring multidisciplinary research and engineering teams.

Throughout his career, Mehmet has led teams delivering advances across video generation, neural rendering, vision-language models, and on-device AI. His work has powered flagship AI experiences on Samsung devices, resulted in numerous international patents, and been published at leading AI conferences including CVPR, ICCV, ECCV and many more. Beyond his industry contributions, Mehmet is an active member of the global AI research community. He regularly speaks at international conferences, universities, and industry events, serves as a reviewer for leading computer vision conferences, and contributes to the advancement of the field through both research and mentorship.

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Registration

Everyone is welcome to attend - the seminar is particularly aimed at PhD students and Early Career Researchers. Registration is essential.

Registration - Deadline Monday 14th September, 11 am

Cancellation and No-shows

Please let us know as soon as possible if your plans have changed and you are no longer able to attend. We operate a waiting list for spaces. You should note our Cancellation and No-Show policy, summarised below.

• Delegates who have registered to attend but did not turn up to the event on the day, may be charged a conference fee.

• Charges may be given if less than 7 days' notice is given to the conference organisers. 

   

Seminar Partnership

This seminar is brought to you by C2D3