02Research

Questions worth investigating.

My research connects machine learning with movement, prediction, and the structure of real-world problems.

Academic foundation

Data science, through
an engineering lens.

My academic background brings together Industrial Engineering and an M.Sc. in Data Science and Big Data at Yıldız Technical University. My thesis explored how deep learning can recognize boxing actions and predict the next one.

I’m interested in the point where scientific understanding becomes a working computational method.

Publications

Selected academic work
Conference paper2025

Tour Demand Forecasting with a Multimodal GRNN Model

Sadi Güzel · Yunus Akkaya · Burak Acar

Research on tour demand forecasting using a multimodal General Regression Neural Network model.

33rd Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU) · IEEE

Source: English

  • Forecasting
  • Neural networks
  • Applied machine learning
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Symposium abstract · In Turkish2025

Virtual Referee System with Hybrid Deep Learning Model

Yunus Akkaya · M. Bal

Based on my M.Sc. thesis research: boxing action recognition and next-action prediction combining image classification, pose-based spatiotemporal graph modeling, and sequence learning.

Grad Symposium 2025 · Yıldız Technical University · Istanbul

Source: Turkish · Original title: Hibrit Derin Öğrenme Modeli ile Sanal Hakem Sistemi

  • Computer vision
  • EfficientNet
  • ST-GCN
  • Action recognition
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Earlier conference work

Conference presentation · 2022

Remote Work Alerting with Artificial Intelligence Techniques

ICMECE 2022 · Computer vision · Face recognition

Conference presentation · 2022

Zero-Shot Call Classification

ICMECE 2022 · NLP · Zero-shot classification

Ongoing interests

A wider field of questions.

Areas I want to explore further, alongside my current engineering and research work.

  • 01Robotics & control systems
  • 02Computational science & physics
  • 03Biomechanics & movement
  • 04Learning & intelligent systems