About Me
- • Software Development Engineer Intern at UW-Madison, SSEC
- • Research Assistant at UR GIDS-AI
- • I love running, bouldering, and EDM!
Experience
UW-Madison, Space Science and Engineering Center
Software Development Engineer Intern
University of Rochester (CS Dept.)
Research Assistant
Paper-X
Software Engineer
Media Lab, Eastman School of Music (University of Rochester)
Technology Assistant
Education
University of Rochester
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Mathematics
Projects
STELLA Explorer
June 2026An interactive explorer for NASA STELLA spectrometer data, pairs near real-time Landsat 8/9 satellite imagery with spectral libraries to compare ground readings against orbital observations.
ReactTypeScriptNext.jsCircuitPython
web-vest
April 2026Web-VEST (Visual Element-based Saliency Toolkit) is a Python package on PyPI for multimodal webpage saliency extraction and scoring, combining automated crawling, graph-based site mapping, and vision-language models to rank element importance.
PythonOpenAI CLIPFlorence-2BLIP-2U^2-NetNetworkX
Technical Skills
Languages
C++CJavaPythonRustJavaScriptTypeScriptHTML/CSSSQLLuax86-64 Assembly
Frameworks
Node.jsReact.jsNext.jsExpress.jsFlaskSwiftUIFlutterFastAPIJUnitJest
Developer Tools
GitLinuxAmazon Web ServicesGoogle Cloud PlatformMicrosoft AzureDockerVim
Concepts
Operating SystemsCompilersComputer NetworksStatisticsProbabilityObject-Oriented ProgrammingWeb DevelopmentDatabasesFull stackCloud ComputingCybersecurityGame TheoryParallel ProgrammingREST APIHTTPMCP
Contact
I'm open to new opportunities. Feel free to reach out!
Email
mkaraasl at u dot rochester dot eduSend me an emailPhone
585-305-0711Give me a callLinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/mertkan-karaaslan-950573298Connect on LinkedInGitHub
github.com/DrainerWillyCheck out my codeBased in Rochester, NY