Said Gurbuz
PhD Student in Computer Science
Computer Vision & Geometry Group
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ETH Zurich
Pre-Doctoral Researcher ·
Docling Team
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IBM Research Zurich
About
I am a PhD student in Computer Science at ETH Zurich, affiliated with the Computer Vision and Geometry Group (CVG) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Marc Pollefeys. Concurrently, I work as a Pre-Doctoral Researcher at IBM Research Zurich within the Docling Team, supervised by Dr. Peter W. J. Staar.
My research focuses on efficient vision-language models and screen understanding for computer-use agents.
Previously, I obtained my M.Sc. in Computer Science from EPFL and my B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from METU.
News
Publications
Identify, Locate, Link: End-to-End Key-Value Extraction from Document Images
TL;DR An end-to-end approach that jointly identifies, locates, and links key-value pairs in visually rich document images without external OCR.
Experience
IBM Research – Zurich
Zurich, SwitzerlandPre-Doctoral Researcher
Oct 2025 – PresentDocling Team · Supervisor: Dr. Peter W. J. Staar
IBM Research – Zurich
Zurich, SwitzerlandMaster Thesis Student
Feb 2025 – Aug 2025Docling Team · Multimodal information extraction
Worked on SmolDocling and Docling
EPFL
Lausanne, SwitzerlandTeaching Assistant — Machine Learning (CS433)
Fall 2024EPFL — Mathis Group
Lausanne, SwitzerlandResearch Assistant
Feb 2024 – Aug 2024Information extraction with large language models · Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Alexander Mathis
Panoculum Inc.
TX, USAMachine Learning Engineer
Jun 2023 – Feb 2024Integrated deep learning pipeline into a mobile application for AI-enhanced family story sharing.
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UKUndergraduate Researcher
Jul 2022 – Feb 2023CNN-based architecture for blackgrass detection using multispectral imaging (85% F1). Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Cengiz Oztireli
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL, USAUndergraduate Researcher
Jun 2021 – Dec 2021Automated bug localization techniques · Areas: Software Engineering, Machine Learning
Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Reyhaneh Jabbarvand
Education
ETH Zurich
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Department of Computer Science (D-INFK)
Oct 2025 – PresentComputer Vision and Geometry Group (CVG)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Pollefeys
EPFL
M.Sc. in Computer Science
Sep 2023 – Jun 2025Middle East Technical University
B.Sc. in Computer Engineering
Sep 2018 – Jun 2023