Group Leader


Ozgur S. Oguz

Ozgur S. Oguz

PhD Students


Ilyas Kocaer

Ilyas Kocaer


Sepehr Nourmohammadi

Sepehr Nourmohammadi

MSc Students


Arda Sarp Yenicesu

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.


Kutay Demiray

Kutay Demiray

Kutay graduated from the Computer Engineering department at Bilkent University. His current research interests include reinforcement learning (particularly exploration and multi-agent RL in robotics and similar embodied agent settings), and machine learning and AI in general.


Dilruba Sultan Haliloglu

Dilruba Sultan Haliloglu

Dilruba completed a double major in Computer Engineering and Mathematics at Bilkent University. Her research interests include human-computer interaction and long-horizon task and motion planning.


Ece Kunduracioglu

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.


Berk Çiçek

Berk Çiçek

Berk, graduated from Bilkent University with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. His research interests lie in Robot Learning, particularly focusing on Manipulation Planning and Task and Motion Planning (TAMP).


Huzaifa Salahuddin

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.


M. Hikmet Simsir

M. Hikmet Simsir


Cankut Bora Tuncer

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

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 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.