Sefik Ilkin Serengil
@serengil.bsky.social
👨💻Software Engineer @Neo4j 🎓 GSU alumni 🏠 West Londoner 🇬🇧UK Global Talent 🗽Neo-Liberal 💬 Code wins arguments 🔗 https://sefiks.com
Don’t underestimate peer review activities as evidence when you apply for US EB1-A and UK Global Talent. Your participation as a judge of others’ work in your field is proof your expertise is trusted internationally
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October 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Don’t underestimate peer review activities as evidence when you apply for US EB1-A and UK Global Talent. Your participation as a judge of others’ work in your field is proof your expertise is trusted internationally
sefiks.com/2025/10/19/u...
sefiks.com/2025/10/19/u...
My recent talk "DeepFace: A De Facto Standard for Facial Recognition in Python" at AI Signals Meetup is now live on YouTube!
If you couldn’t attend the event, here’s your chance to watch it!
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYZ9...
If you couldn’t attend the event, here’s your chance to watch it!
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYZ9...
September 18, 2025 at 8:54 AM
My recent talk "DeepFace: A De Facto Standard for Facial Recognition in Python" at AI Signals Meetup is now live on YouTube!
If you couldn’t attend the event, here’s your chance to watch it!
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYZ9...
If you couldn’t attend the event, here’s your chance to watch it!
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYZ9...
I will be speaking at AI Signals on 16th Sep about "DeepFace: A De Facto Standard for Facial Recognition in Python". If you’ll be in the city and want to say hi, you’re more than welcome to join!
📅 Tue, 16th Sept 6:30pm
📍 Civo Tech Junction, London
🔗 aisignals.org.uk/events/ai-si...
📅 Tue, 16th Sept 6:30pm
📍 Civo Tech Junction, London
🔗 aisignals.org.uk/events/ai-si...
September 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I will be speaking at AI Signals on 16th Sep about "DeepFace: A De Facto Standard for Facial Recognition in Python". If you’ll be in the city and want to say hi, you’re more than welcome to join!
📅 Tue, 16th Sept 6:30pm
📍 Civo Tech Junction, London
🔗 aisignals.org.uk/events/ai-si...
📅 Tue, 16th Sept 6:30pm
📍 Civo Tech Junction, London
🔗 aisignals.org.uk/events/ai-si...
Reaganism, Thatcherism and Besimizm
August 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Reaganism, Thatcherism and Besimizm
🚨 New Feature Alert
Beyond distance and hard classifications - now, it gets a confidence score with logistic regression!
Tell you how likely two faces belong to the same person — not just yes or no.
Smarter. More flexible. Still free & open-source.
🔗 github.com/serengil/dee...
Beyond distance and hard classifications - now, it gets a confidence score with logistic regression!
Tell you how likely two faces belong to the same person — not just yes or no.
Smarter. More flexible. Still free & open-source.
🔗 github.com/serengil/dee...
July 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
🚨 New Feature Alert
Beyond distance and hard classifications - now, it gets a confidence score with logistic regression!
Tell you how likely two faces belong to the same person — not just yes or no.
Smarter. More flexible. Still free & open-source.
🔗 github.com/serengil/dee...
Beyond distance and hard classifications - now, it gets a confidence score with logistic regression!
Tell you how likely two faces belong to the same person — not just yes or no.
Smarter. More flexible. Still free & open-source.
🔗 github.com/serengil/dee...
An Interstellar Milestone: DeepFace just passed 20,000 Stars on GitHub 🎉 A huge thanks to its amazing community for making this possible 🙏
🔗 github.com/serengil/dee...
Haven't starred the repo yet? Your star can help spread the word about this cool project!
#python #deepface
🔗 github.com/serengil/dee...
Haven't starred the repo yet? Your star can help spread the word about this cool project!
#python #deepface
July 29, 2025 at 8:55 AM
An Interstellar Milestone: DeepFace just passed 20,000 Stars on GitHub 🎉 A huge thanks to its amazing community for making this possible 🙏
🔗 github.com/serengil/dee...
Haven't starred the repo yet? Your star can help spread the word about this cool project!
#python #deepface
🔗 github.com/serengil/dee...
Haven't starred the repo yet? Your star can help spread the word about this cool project!
#python #deepface
🚀 Full circle moment! I started my ML journey with Coursera in 2015, and now @deeplearningai.bsky.social is showcasing my open-source project, DeepFace, in their Building Applications with Vector Databases course! Proud moment for me 🙏
🔗 learn.deeplearning.ai/courses/buil...
🔗 learn.deeplearning.ai/courses/buil...
April 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🚀 Full circle moment! I started my ML journey with Coursera in 2015, and now @deeplearningai.bsky.social is showcasing my open-source project, DeepFace, in their Building Applications with Vector Databases course! Proud moment for me 🙏
🔗 learn.deeplearning.ai/courses/buil...
🔗 learn.deeplearning.ai/courses/buil...
LightPHE just launched on HackerNews! It’s a lightweight Partially Homomorphic Encryption lib for Python, allowing to perform calculations directly on encrypted data. Store data in cloud and use its power to update it.
Upvote or comment to support 🙏
🔗 news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4302...
Upvote or comment to support 🙏
🔗 news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4302...
February 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
LightPHE just launched on HackerNews! It’s a lightweight Partially Homomorphic Encryption lib for Python, allowing to perform calculations directly on encrypted data. Store data in cloud and use its power to update it.
Upvote or comment to support 🙏
🔗 news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4302...
Upvote or comment to support 🙏
🔗 news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4302...
🚀 New Feature Alert!
LightPHE, the lightweight partially homomorphic encryption library for Python, now supports Elliptic Curve Cryptography with a sleek and intuitive interface! 🎉
🧮 Perform point addition, scalar multiplication, and more!
🔗 github.com/serengil/Lig...
LightPHE, the lightweight partially homomorphic encryption library for Python, now supports Elliptic Curve Cryptography with a sleek and intuitive interface! 🎉
🧮 Perform point addition, scalar multiplication, and more!
🔗 github.com/serengil/Lig...
January 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
🚀 New Feature Alert!
LightPHE, the lightweight partially homomorphic encryption library for Python, now supports Elliptic Curve Cryptography with a sleek and intuitive interface! 🎉
🧮 Perform point addition, scalar multiplication, and more!
🔗 github.com/serengil/Lig...
LightPHE, the lightweight partially homomorphic encryption library for Python, now supports Elliptic Curve Cryptography with a sleek and intuitive interface! 🎉
🧮 Perform point addition, scalar multiplication, and more!
🔗 github.com/serengil/Lig...
Cryptography in IoT? Meet Koblitz Curves!
Their binary field efficiency makes them ideal for:
✅ IoT devices
✅ Hardware-constrained environments
🌟 Learn the basics in my latest blog: Elliptic Curves in Koblitz Form Over Binary Fields.
🔗 sefiks.com/2025/01/16/a...
#IoT #Crypto #EllipticCurves
Their binary field efficiency makes them ideal for:
✅ IoT devices
✅ Hardware-constrained environments
🌟 Learn the basics in my latest blog: Elliptic Curves in Koblitz Form Over Binary Fields.
🔗 sefiks.com/2025/01/16/a...
#IoT #Crypto #EllipticCurves
January 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Cryptography in IoT? Meet Koblitz Curves!
Their binary field efficiency makes them ideal for:
✅ IoT devices
✅ Hardware-constrained environments
🌟 Learn the basics in my latest blog: Elliptic Curves in Koblitz Form Over Binary Fields.
🔗 sefiks.com/2025/01/16/a...
#IoT #Crypto #EllipticCurves
Their binary field efficiency makes them ideal for:
✅ IoT devices
✅ Hardware-constrained environments
🌟 Learn the basics in my latest blog: Elliptic Curves in Koblitz Form Over Binary Fields.
🔗 sefiks.com/2025/01/16/a...
#IoT #Crypto #EllipticCurves
LightPHE now supports elliptic curves in Koblitz form over binary fields 🚀 A game-changer for resource-constrained environments like hardware & IoT devices, enhancing cryptographic performance and efficiency.
🔗 github.com/serengil/LightPHE
#python #cryptography
🔗 github.com/serengil/LightPHE
#python #cryptography
January 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
LightPHE now supports elliptic curves in Koblitz form over binary fields 🚀 A game-changer for resource-constrained environments like hardware & IoT devices, enhancing cryptographic performance and efficiency.
🔗 github.com/serengil/LightPHE
#python #cryptography
🔗 github.com/serengil/LightPHE
#python #cryptography
🚀 Launched DeepFace on Y Combinator's Hacker News! If you do like DeepFace, then you can help us reach wider audience by upvoting its post on Hacker News ✨ Your comments are also more than welcome!
🔗 news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4258...
🔗 news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4258...
January 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
🚀 Launched DeepFace on Y Combinator's Hacker News! If you do like DeepFace, then you can help us reach wider audience by upvoting its post on Hacker News ✨ Your comments are also more than welcome!
🔗 news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4258...
🔗 news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4258...
Quantum processors can complete tasks in secs that take millions of years with today's tech, breaking current security systems. Apple’s quantum-resistant iMessage uses hybrid elliptic curves. Check out my ECC tutorials to stay ahead in the post-quantum!
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=iydG...
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=iydG...
January 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Quantum processors can complete tasks in secs that take millions of years with today's tech, breaking current security systems. Apple’s quantum-resistant iMessage uses hybrid elliptic curves. Check out my ECC tutorials to stay ahead in the post-quantum!
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=iydG...
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=iydG...
🎉 Just added Edwards curve support to LightPHE for the additively homomorphic elliptic curve ElGamal cryptosystem! Edwards curves have become the de facto standard in cryptography due to their elegant, and fast additions.
🔗 github.com/serengil/Lig...
#python #data #security
🔗 github.com/serengil/Lig...
#python #data #security
January 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
🎉 Just added Edwards curve support to LightPHE for the additively homomorphic elliptic curve ElGamal cryptosystem! Edwards curves have become the de facto standard in cryptography due to their elegant, and fast additions.
🔗 github.com/serengil/Lig...
#python #data #security
🔗 github.com/serengil/Lig...
#python #data #security
Art for art's sake or art for society? How about AI for art! 🎨🤖
Discover the magic of artistic style transfer and AI-generated art in my playlist!
🎥 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Please subscribe to keep yourself up-to-date!
#DataScience #MachineLearning #Python
Discover the magic of artistic style transfer and AI-generated art in my playlist!
🎥 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Please subscribe to keep yourself up-to-date!
#DataScience #MachineLearning #Python
October 1, 2024 at 1:13 PM
Art for art's sake or art for society? How about AI for art! 🎨🤖
Discover the magic of artistic style transfer and AI-generated art in my playlist!
🎥 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Please subscribe to keep yourself up-to-date!
#DataScience #MachineLearning #Python
Discover the magic of artistic style transfer and AI-generated art in my playlist!
🎥 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Please subscribe to keep yourself up-to-date!
#DataScience #MachineLearning #Python
Art for art's sake or art for society? How about AI for art! 🎨🤖
Discover the magic of artistic style transfer and AI-generated art in my playlist!
🎥 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#DataScience #MachineLearning #Python
Discover the magic of artistic style transfer and AI-generated art in my playlist!
🎥 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#DataScience #MachineLearning #Python
August 29, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Art for art's sake or art for society? How about AI for art! 🎨🤖
Discover the magic of artistic style transfer and AI-generated art in my playlist!
🎥 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#DataScience #MachineLearning #Python
Discover the magic of artistic style transfer and AI-generated art in my playlist!
🎥 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#DataScience #MachineLearning #Python
Building robust ML models isn’t enough to go to production; transparency is the key!
Check out this playlist for theory and practice:
- Feature importance
- ROC curves and AUC
- SHAP and LIME for deep learning and GBM
🎥 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#datascience #machinelearning
Check out this playlist for theory and practice:
- Feature importance
- ROC curves and AUC
- SHAP and LIME for deep learning and GBM
🎥 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#datascience #machinelearning
August 20, 2024 at 1:05 PM
Building robust ML models isn’t enough to go to production; transparency is the key!
Check out this playlist for theory and practice:
- Feature importance
- ROC curves and AUC
- SHAP and LIME for deep learning and GBM
🎥 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#datascience #machinelearning
Check out this playlist for theory and practice:
- Feature importance
- ROC curves and AUC
- SHAP and LIME for deep learning and GBM
🎥 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#datascience #machinelearning
🏆 Want to be a Kaggle grandmaster? Master decision trees 🌳 Over half of winning solutions use trees!
Check out this playlist to learn
- Decision tree algorithms: ID3, C4.5, CART
- Advanced techniques: Random Forest, GBM, Adaboost
🎥 Watch here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Check out this playlist to learn
- Decision tree algorithms: ID3, C4.5, CART
- Advanced techniques: Random Forest, GBM, Adaboost
🎥 Watch here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
August 12, 2024 at 11:10 AM
🏆 Want to be a Kaggle grandmaster? Master decision trees 🌳 Over half of winning solutions use trees!
Check out this playlist to learn
- Decision tree algorithms: ID3, C4.5, CART
- Advanced techniques: Random Forest, GBM, Adaboost
🎥 Watch here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Check out this playlist to learn
- Decision tree algorithms: ID3, C4.5, CART
- Advanced techniques: Random Forest, GBM, Adaboost
🎥 Watch here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Vector models are revolutionizing industries, but the challenge is how to store & search them effectively? Discover hands-on implementations of the best tools for small, moderate, and billion-scale datasets in my new YouTube series!
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#MachineLearning #DeepLearning
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#MachineLearning #DeepLearning
July 29, 2024 at 12:02 PM
Vector models are revolutionizing industries, but the challenge is how to store & search them effectively? Discover hands-on implementations of the best tools for small, moderate, and billion-scale datasets in my new YouTube series!
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#MachineLearning #DeepLearning
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#MachineLearning #DeepLearning
Thinking minimalistically is common among both beginners and experts. They often choose Postgres as a vector database instead of a more complex dedicated one. Watch this video to learn about Postgres’ pgvector extension for billion-scale vector search
🎥 youtu.be/Xfv4hCWvkp0
🎥 youtu.be/Xfv4hCWvkp0
July 21, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Thinking minimalistically is common among both beginners and experts. They often choose Postgres as a vector database instead of a more complex dedicated one. Watch this video to learn about Postgres’ pgvector extension for billion-scale vector search
🎥 youtu.be/Xfv4hCWvkp0
🎥 youtu.be/Xfv4hCWvkp0
I will be speaking at PyData London meet up on Tue Jul 2, 2024 7pm about Homomorphic Encryption in Python. If you're in the city or attending, please come by and say hi!
www.meetup.com/PyData-Londo...
#python #data #security #cryptography
www.meetup.com/PyData-Londo...
#python #data #security #cryptography
June 25, 2024 at 1:47 PM
I will be speaking at PyData London meet up on Tue Jul 2, 2024 7pm about Homomorphic Encryption in Python. If you're in the city or attending, please come by and say hi!
www.meetup.com/PyData-Londo...
#python #data #security #cryptography
www.meetup.com/PyData-Londo...
#python #data #security #cryptography
Run demography analysis including age, gender, emotion and race prediction in your browser with DeepFace’s React JS ui
🎥 youtu.be/_waBA-cH2D4
#python #deepface #reactjs #machinelearning #deeplearning
🎥 youtu.be/_waBA-cH2D4
#python #deepface #reactjs #machinelearning #deeplearning
June 24, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Run demography analysis including age, gender, emotion and race prediction in your browser with DeepFace’s React JS ui
🎥 youtu.be/_waBA-cH2D4
#python #deepface #reactjs #machinelearning #deeplearning
🎥 youtu.be/_waBA-cH2D4
#python #deepface #reactjs #machinelearning #deeplearning
Real-time face anti-spoofing is now easier than ever with DeepFace! It’s incredible simple - just a few lines of code.
youtu.be/UiK1aIjOBlQ
#machinelearning #deeplearning #python #deepface #computervision
youtu.be/UiK1aIjOBlQ
#machinelearning #deeplearning #python #deepface #computervision
June 19, 2024 at 12:43 PM
Real-time face anti-spoofing is now easier than ever with DeepFace! It’s incredible simple - just a few lines of code.
youtu.be/UiK1aIjOBlQ
#machinelearning #deeplearning #python #deepface #computervision
youtu.be/UiK1aIjOBlQ
#machinelearning #deeplearning #python #deepface #computervision
I will be speaking at @pydatalondon on Sunday, June 16 at 10:15 about "The Art and Science of Deep Face Recognition". If you're in the city or attending, come by and say hi!
pydata.org/london2024
#python #machinelearning #deeplearning
pydata.org/london2024
#python #machinelearning #deeplearning
June 14, 2024 at 6:07 PM
I will be speaking at @pydatalondon on Sunday, June 16 at 10:15 about "The Art and Science of Deep Face Recognition". If you're in the city or attending, come by and say hi!
pydata.org/london2024
#python #machinelearning #deeplearning
pydata.org/london2024
#python #machinelearning #deeplearning