Mehmed Kerem Uludag

Senior AI Engineer · CS & Robotics

Mehmed Kerem
Uludag

Applied machine learning — computer vision, agentic AI, and the systems that put research to work.

I'm a first-year master's student at the University of Illinois and a University of Michigan graduate with a dual degree in Computer Science & Robotics. At Illinois I'm part of the MONET Lab, exploring applied ML with a focus on computer vision, 360° video, and AR/VR.

I also work full-time as a Senior AI Engineer in the GDI&A department at Ford. Previously I was president of Michigan Autonomous Aerial Vehicles (MAAV) (2022–2025), leading a student team toward an autonomous-drone competition.

Feel free to reach out with any questions, inquiries, or jokes.

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In Bosnia, 2015 Presenting at ACM SIGAPP SAC 2024 MAAV team at Dexter Mill PJTL Tech Lab team

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  1. June 2026 Rider Harrison and I won Best Agentic Architecture (US & Europe) at Ford's Agathon hackathon, competing against 250+ teams, with our Canonical Repair Profiler.
  2. October 2025 My ESB AI team won the Ford ET Innovation Contest!
  3. June 30, 2025 Started working full-time as a Senior AI Engineer in the GDI&A department at Ford.
  4. October 9, 2024 My paper Adaptive Mitigation of Blackhole Attacks in Blockchain-Enhanced Software Defined Networks was accepted to IEEE IPCCC.
  5. May 10, 2024 Elected as President of MAAV.
  6. May 6, 2024 Started my internship at the Bosch Automated Parking Assist team.
  7. May 1, 2024 Attended the Midwest Research Computing & Data Consortium in Chicago, IL.
  8. April 6, 2024 Presented my talk on Deceptive Skies: Leveraging GANs for Drone Sensor Data Falsification in Ávila, Spain.
  9. January 13, 2024 Started working with Utilidata as part of the UMich CFE PJTL program.
  10. October 13, 2023 My first paper, Deceptive Skies: Leveraging GANs for Drone Sensor Data Falsification, was accepted to ACM/SIGAPP SAC 2024.
  11. June 1, 2023 Started my NSF REU internship at FIU, ADWISE Lab.
  12. May 1, 2023 Became Software Lead of MAAV.
  13. May 1, 2022 Elected as Vice President of MAAV.
  14. March 1, 2022 Joined Advanced Research Computing (ARC) at the University of Michigan.

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  1. Blackhole attack mitigation in blockchain-enhanced SDN

    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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  2. GANs for drone sensor data falsification

    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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