Tolga Birdal

Tolga Birdal is a PhD candidate at the Computer Vision Group at the Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures, TUM and a Doktorand at Siemens AG. His work focuses his research and development on large object detection, pose estimation and reconstruction. Recently, he is awarded Ernst von Siemens Scholarship and EMVA Young Professional Award 2016 for his PhD work. Aside from his academic life, Tolga is a natural Entrepreneur. He has founded multiple companies including Befunky, a widely used web based image processing platform. He is a Jazz lover, enjoys drumming and appreciates the delicate taste of whisky