Group Leader
PhD Students
MSc Students
Arda Sarp Yenicesu
Sarp, originally from Ankara, Turkey, graduated from Bilkent University with a degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. His research interests lie in applying Causal ML to Robotics, particularly focusing on Causal Reinforcement Learning and exploring applications in Task and Motion Planning (TAMP) and personal decision-making.
Ece Kunduracioglu
Ece graduated as valedictorian from the Department of Computer Engineering at Hacettepe University. Her current research interests include tool manipulation for robotic agents, particularly focusing on tool usage with keypoint representations through point clouds, and deep reinforcement learning.
Huzaifa Salahuddin
Huzaifa, originally from Lahore, Pakistan, graduated from the College of Aeronautical Engineering at NUST with a degree in Avionics Engineering. Within robotics domain, he is deeply passionate about conducting research to apply machine learning techniques to enhance the integration between vision and language models. His goal by doing so, is to improve human-robot interaction for better cooperation in accomplishing various tasks.
Cankut Bora Tuncer
Bora, originally from Ankara, Turkey, holds a degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bilkent University. Driven by his passion for Intelligent Robotics, he pursued a master's degree in the Computer Science department. His research interests include manipulation planning, intuitive physics, and solving physical puzzles.
M. Hedi Elfikr
Hedi, originally from Tunis, Tunisia, holds a degree in Computer Engineering from Hacettepe University. He was previously supervised by Professors Aykut Erdem and Erkut Erdem, where he worked on omnidirectional imaging. His current research interests lie in 3D computer vision and robotics.
Mert K. Er
Mert is from Istanbul, Turkey, and lives in Ankara. He graduated from the Mathematics Department at Bilkent University and is doing his Master’s in Computer Engineering at Bilkent University. His research interest is designing embodied agents to cooperate with humans in various scenarios and tasks using deep learning techniques.