Jul 21, 2026 LiRA Lab participated in the 7th Turkish Robotics Conference held at Koç University, Istanbul, on July 19–21, 2026. Ece Kunduracioglu and Huzaifa Salahuddin delivered workshop presentations on behalf of Asst. Prof. Özgür S. Öğüz on the first day, while Asst. Prof. Öğüz gave a talk on the final day. Several lab members also presented their research during the poster sessions.
Jul 17, 2026 Our paper, “CoRAL: Contact-Rich Adaptive LLM-based Control for Robotic Manipulation”, by Berk Çiçek, Mert Kaan Er, and Özgür S. Öğüz, was published in the proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS 2026).
Jul 11, 2026 Our paper, “Lagrangian Perturbation Diffusion Steering: Latent Reinforcement Learning for Generative Policies”, by Hikmet Şimşir and Özgür S. Öğüz, was published in the proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026).
Jun 30, 2026 Our paper, “Uncertainty-Aware Safety Propagation Critics for Safe Reinforcement Learning”, by Kutay Demiray, Efe Eren Ceyani, and Özgür S. Öğüz, was published in Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) in June 2026.