Research Experience

• PhD Student Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Informatics (Sep. 2025 – Present)
  • Working on robot learning at the intersection of computer vision, representation learning, and action generation.
  • Broadly interested in scalable learning for robotic intelligence and embodied systems.
  • Current work studies action representations learned from video or demonstrations and their use in robot manipulation.
• Undergraduate Student Researcher, AI Lab, METU BILTIR Center (Jul. 2024 – Jun. 2025)
  • Supervisor: Prof. Seyda Ertekin
  • Conducted research on automated and efficient hyperparameter optimization using large language models, leading to the SLLMBO framework.
• Computer Vision Research Intern, Computational Biomedicine Lab, University of Houston (Jul. 2022 – Sep. 2022)
  • Supervisor: Prof. Ioannis Kakadiaris
  • Worked on computer vision problems including object detection from UAV imagery and representation-based similarity analysis.