Omar Polat

@Omar

ML/AI Engineer

Machine Learning Engineer specializing in Applied NLP and Multimodal AI, with experience improving Vision-Language OCR models.

About

Developed an automated data acquisition pipeline that reduced CER and WER. This experience solidified my commitment to pursuing a PhD on data collection methods for low-resource languages.

Career

Experience: 1 years

Experience

Research Assistant

ISSAI lab

Oct 2025 — Present

* Fine-tuned VLM based OCR model; * Created 2 methods of synthetic data generation; * Built a pipeline for image translation for synthetic data generation.

Education

MSc Data Science

Nazarbayev University

2024 — 2026

Wrote a paper related to VLM-based OCR papers

BSc Computer Science

Suleyman Demirel University

2020 — 2024