Mehmed Kerem Uludag

Hey! I'm a first year master's student at the University of Illinois and a graduate of the University of Michigan with a dual degree in Computer Science & Robotics. I'm currently part of the MONET Lab at Illinois, where I'm exploring applied machine learning with a focus on computer vision, 360 video, and AR/VR applications.

Outside of my academic work, I work full-time as a Senior AI Engineer in the GDI&A department at Ford. I was previously the president of Michigan Autonomous Aerial Vehicles (MAAV) (2022-2025), where I led a student-run project team working towards an autonomous drone competition.

Please feel free to reach out with any questions, inquiries, or jokes via my (scrambled) email to the right :)

ek.me.hm@pleax.o

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News

October 2025 — My ESB AI team won the Ford ET Innovation Contest!
June 30, 2025 — Started working full-time as a Senior AI Engineer in the GDI&A department at Ford.
October 9, 2024 — My paper titled Adaptive Mitigation of Blackhole Attacks in Blockchain-Enhanced Software Defined Networks gets accepted to IEEE IPCCC.
May 6, 2024 — Started my internship at Bosch Automated Parking Assist Team.
May 10, 2024 — Elected as President of MAAV.
May 1, 2024 — I got to attend the Midwest Research Computing & Data Consortium in Chicago, IL.
January 13, 2024 — Started working with Utilidata as part of the UMich CFE PJTL program.
April 6, 2024 — I presented my talk on Deceptive Skies: Leveraging GANs for Drone Sensor Data Falsification in Avila, Spain.
October 13, 2023 — My first paper titled Deceptive Skies: Leveraging GANs for Drone Sensor Data Falsification gets accepted to the ACM/SIGAPP SAC 2024.
June 1, 2023 — Started my NSF REU Internship at FIU, ADWISE Lab.
May 1, 2023 — Became Software Lead of MAAV.
May 1, 2022 — Elected as Vice President of MAAV.
March 1, 2022 — I joined Advanced Research Computing (ARC) at the University of Michigan.

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Mehmed Kerem Uludag, Murat Karakus, Evrim Guler, Suleyman Uludag. Adaptive Mitigation of Blackhole Attacks in Blockchain-Enhanced Software Defined Networks. IEEE, IPCCC, International Performance Computing and Communications Conference, November 2024.
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Mehmed Kerem Uludag, Maryna Veksler, Yasin Yilmaz, Kemal Akkaya. Deceptive Skies: Leveraging GANs for Drone Sensor Data Falsification. Proceedings of the 39th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, April 2024.
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