Barış Cem Bakay

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow 2026

About:
I am a Computer Engineering and Physics double major student at Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey. I am currently a research Intern at INSAIT in the summer of 2026. My work focuses on online 3D scene reconstruction with a compact memory. My supervisors at INSAIT are Dr. Nikola Popovic and Dr. Danda Pani Paudel.

Education:
Computer Engineering & Physics, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey (October 2022 – present)

Research Experience:
Undergraduate research assistant at KUIS AI Center (June 2025 – Present).

Awards:
Ranked top 20 from over 3,000,000 candidates in YKS, the national university entrance exam in Turkey.

Publications:
Ali Kerem Bozkurt, Baris Cem Bakay, Ibrahim Kulac, Cigdem Gunduz-Demir, Erkut Erdem, Aykut Erdem
Scalable Whole-Slide Vision-Language Modeling with Learned Token Pruning
In: The Second Workshop on GenAI for Health: Potential, Trust, and Policy Compliance (NeurIPS 2025), San Diego, December 2025.