Said Gurbuz

PhD Student in Computer Science

Said Gurbuz
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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.

Computer Vision Natural Language Processing Multimodal Learning Document Understanding Information Extraction Vision-Language Models Screen Parsing Computer-use Agents

News

May 2026 Paper on end-to-end key-value extraction from document images accepted at ICDAR 2026.
Apr 2026 ScreenParse accepted at ICML 2026.
Oct 2025 Started PhD in Computer Science at ETH Zurich (CVG Group).
Oct 2025 Joined IBM Research Zurich as Pre-Doctoral Researcher.
2025 SmolDocling accepted at ICCV 2025.
Jun 2025 Completed M.Sc. in Computer Science at EPFL.

Publications

ScreenParse pipeline
ScreenParse

Moving Beyond Sparse Grounding with Complete Screen Parsing Supervision

A. Said Gurbuz, Sunghwan Hong, Ahmed Nassar, Marc Pollefeys, Peter W. J. Staar

TL;DR A large-scale dataset and training framework for complete screen understanding — parsing all UI elements with bounding boxes and semantic labels from web screenshots.

Key-Value Extraction from Documents
KV-Extract

Identify, Locate, Link: End-to-End Key-Value Extraction from Document Images

A. Said Gurbuz, A. Nassar, C. Auer, M. Lysak, L. Morin, M. Omenetti, T. Strohmeyer, P. Vagenas, N. Livathinos, M. Dolfi, P. W. J. Staar

TL;DR An end-to-end approach that jointly identifies, locates, and links key-value pairs in visually rich document images without external OCR.

SmolDocling Architecture
SmolDocling

SmolDocling: An Ultra-Compact Vision-Language Model for End-to-End Multi-Modal Document Conversion

A. Nassar, M. Omenetti, M. Lysak, N. Livathinos, C. Auer, L. Morin, R. T. de Lima, Y. Kim, A. Said Gurbuz, M. Dolfi, P. W. J. Staar

TL;DR A 256M-parameter vision-language model that converts complex documents end-to-end using a novel DocTags markup, competing with models 27x larger.

IDS Analysis
SRMC 2022

An Empirical Analysis of IDS Approaches in Container Security

Y. Sever, G. Ekinci, A. H. Dogan, B. Alparslan, A. Said Gurbuz, V. Jabrayilov, P. Angin

Open Source

Open-source projects I'm involved in.

Experience

IBM Research – Zurich

Zurich, Switzerland

Pre-Doctoral Researcher

Oct 2025 – Present

Docling Team · Supervisor: Dr. Peter W. J. Staar

IBM Research – Zurich

Zurich, Switzerland

Master Thesis Student

Feb 2025 – Aug 2025

Docling Team · Multimodal information extraction

Worked on SmolDocling and Docling

EPFL

Lausanne, Switzerland

Teaching Assistant — Machine Learning (CS433)

Fall 2024

EPFL — Mathis Group

Lausanne, Switzerland

Research Assistant

Feb 2024 – Aug 2024

Information extraction with large language models · Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Alexander Mathis

Panoculum Inc.

TX, USA

Machine Learning Engineer

Jun 2023 – Feb 2024

Integrated deep learning pipeline into a mobile application for AI-enhanced family story sharing.

University of Cambridge

Cambridge, UK

Undergraduate Researcher

Jul 2022 – Feb 2023

CNN-based architecture for blackgrass detection using multispectral imaging (85% F1). Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Cengiz Oztireli

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Urbana, IL, USA

Undergraduate Researcher

Jun 2021 – Dec 2021

Automated 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 – Present

Computer Vision and Geometry Group (CVG)

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Marc Pollefeys

EPFL

M.Sc. in Computer Science

Sep 2023 – Jun 2025

Middle East Technical University

B.Sc. in Computer Engineering

Sep 2018 – Jun 2023