Tan Karabudak

I'm about to complete my M.Sc. in Computer Science at the University of Freiburg, where my thesis extends the COTRATE continual-learning framework with LiDAR-RGB fusion for outdoor traversability and obstacle understanding.

I've built robotics and machine-learning systems spanning LiDAR, RGB-D, sensor fusion, autonomous navigation, and temporal learning. My work includes a ROS autonomous-driving stack for an RC vehicle, where obstacle detection and avoidance reached approximately 80% success, and TipToe, a quadruped terrain-understanding pipeline in which LSTM modeling achieved approximately 70% higher accuracy than an MLP baseline.

I've also developed full-stack applications at T2 Software, embedded C/C++ software for STM32H7 hardware at HAVELSAN, and taught undergraduate programming and data structures.