Aytül Erçil

In 2001, she started teaching at the Electronics Engineering department at Sabancı University. She worked as the founding director of VPALAB Computer vision and Pattern Analysis Laboratory at Sabancı until 2013. Erçil co-founded Vispera A.Ş., an image processing/machine learning company, in 2014. Vispera is currently operating in 25 countries, developing solutions for retail execution and customer satisfaction.

Upon returning to Turkey, she started teaching at Boğaziçi University's Department of Industrial Engineering in 1988, where she established BUPAM Pattern Analysis and Machine Vision Laboratory, and started her first company, Vistek Ltd. Vistek developed machine vision products like fig sorting machines, glass quality inspection systems, and olive sorting machines. In 2013, Vistek was acquired by ISRA VISION AG.

Aytül Erçil graduated from Boğaziçi University in 1979 with a double degree in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics. She then obtained a master's degree in 1980 and a Ph.D in 1983 at Brown University, both in Applied Mathematics. She worked at General Motors Research Laboratories from 1983 to 1988 as senior research scientist and staff research scientist and was a part-time faculty member at Wayne State University.

Aytül Erçil (born 14 December 1958) is a Turkish entrepreneur, CEO, and Professor of Computer Vision at Sabancı University in Istanbul. She was the founder of Vistek A.Ş. and a co-founder and CEO of Vispera.