Oytun Ulutan

Oytun Ulutan is a highly skilled Staff Software Engineer specializing in perception at Zoox, with a career that includes progressive roles in vision and perception engineering. Prior to joining Zoox in January 2020, Oytun served as a Graduate Student Researcher at UC Santa Barbara, focusing on modeling atomic actions of humans in the Vision Research Lab, and held positions as a Teaching Assistant and Student Mentor. Oytun's experience includes multiple research internships at IBM and the US Army Research Laboratory, where significant contributions were made to action recognition and detection frameworks. An educational background in electrical engineering includes a Ph.D. and M.S. from UC Santa Barbara, as well as a B.Sc. from Bilkent University.