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Veli
Ates

M.Sc. Embedded Systems Engineering candidate at FH Dortmund — building DiversityLens at DFKI to audit demographic balance across large-scale computer vision datasets.

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AI systems need better data, clearer evaluation, and people who notice what breaks.

My work sits between applied computer vision, dataset auditing, and quality review. I am strongest where AI outputs need to be tested, organized, explained, and made reproducible through Python workflows, dashboards, and careful documentation.

Experience

Research and work

Oct '21
Apr '23
Oct '24
Now

M.Sc. Embedded Systems

FH Dortmund
Oct 2021 → May 2026

Coursework and project work across computer vision, machine learning, software architecture, and applied AI systems.

Content Moderator

TELUS Digital
Oct 2022 → Present
now

Reviewing high-volume content quality and policy decisions for a major social media platform, with consistent accuracy and a practical eye for ambiguous edge cases.

Thesis Researcher

DFKI · Robotics
Oct 2025 → Present

Developing DiversityLens — a Python toolkit for demographic analysis of robot–human interaction and computer vision datasets using OpenCV, DeepFace, RetinaFace, Pandas, Bokeh, and CLI-based workflows.

Selected Projects

Built around data,
evaluation, and reproducibility

Python package · DFKI Repository ↗

DiversityLens

A modular toolkit for auditing demographic distributions in computer vision datasets before model training and dataset selection.

Sample audit — COCO-People subset
Male
68%
Female
29%
Unknown
3%
  • OpenCV
  • DeepFace
  • RetinaFace
  • Pandas
  • Bokeh
  • Pytest
Local AI · University project

Context-Aware Local RAG System

A privacy-preserving retrieval pipeline with Llama 3-ChatQA, FAISS, Sentence Transformers, chunking experiments, and streaming responses on consumer hardware.

Retrieval accuracy by chunk size
256 tok
72%
512 tok
88%
1024 tok
81%
  • RAG
  • FAISS
  • Sentence Transformers
  • Llama
  • Python

Interactive Demo

DiversityLens — live audit simulation

Select a dataset, configure detection settings, and run a simulated demographic audit.

DiversityLens v0.4.1 — Audit Dashboard

Dataset

Detection Model

Ready — select dataset and click Run Audit
Gender Distribution
Male
Female
Unknown
Age Group Distribution
0–18
19–35
36–55
56+
Bias Score

Toolkit

Technical stack

⌨️

Programming

Python, Bash, C++, MATLAB, Git, Linux, LaTeX

Projects

DiversityLens — CLI pipelines
RAG System — retrieval & chunking

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Computer Vision & Data

OpenCV, DeepFace, RetinaFace, Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-Learn, Bokeh

Projects

DiversityLens — face detection, demographic analysis, Bokeh dashboards

🤖

AI Engineering

RAG pipelines, FAISS, Sentence Transformers, OpenAI API, LangChain

Projects

Local RAG System — FAISS retrieval, Llama 3-ChatQA, streaming inference

📦

Delivery

FastAPI, Docker, GitHub Actions, Pytest, documentation, CLI workflows

Projects

DiversityLens — Pytest suite, Docker packaging, GitHub CI

Beyond the CV

There's a person
behind the pipeline

I care deeply about building AI that is honest about what it doesn't know, fair in how it treats different people, and grounded in real-world data quality — not just benchmark numbers.

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Veli Ates

Dortmund, Germany

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A bit more about me

Curious by nature, careful by practice. I find beauty in edge cases and tend to ask "what happens when this breaks?" before "does it work?"

Outside of code — hiking, reading about cognitive science, and probably overthinking a dataset.

🇩🇪 Germany 🇹🇷 Turkish 🧠 Cognitive science 🧗 Bouldering 🧠 Psychology 🐛 It's not a bug, it's a feature ☕ Caffeine-driven dev

Target Roles

Where I can
contribute

Looking for junior roles where AI quality, dataset work, evaluation, and pragmatic Python tooling matter more than buzzwords.

AI Evaluation Data Quality Responsible AI Computer Vision Datasets Trust & Safety AI Python Tooling Research Engineering Junior Data Analysis

Contact

Open to AI evaluation, data quality & applied AI roles.

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