Emre Ugur
Ph.D.
is an Assistant Professor in Dept. of Computer Engineering, Bogazici University,
head of the CoLoRs group.
received his PhD degree in Computer Engineering from Middle East Technical University (METU, Turkey). He was a research assistant in KOVAN Lab. METU (2003-2009); worked as a research scientist at ATR, Japan (2009-2013); visited Osaka University as a specially appointed Assistant Professor (2015&2016); and worked as a senior researcher in University of Innsbruck (2013-2016). He participated in several projects funded by EU, TUBITAK, and JST.
He is currently Principle Investigator of IMAGINE project supported by European Commission, Horizon 2020 Programme; and EXO-AI-FLEX project supported by TUBITAK, 1003 program.
He is interested in robotics, robot learning, cognitive robotics.
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News
- CoRL 2020! Our paper titled "ACNMP: Flexible Skill Formation with Learning from Demonstration and Reinforcement Learning via Representation Sharing" is accepted as oral talk (4%) to CoRL 2020 pdf, video.
- TUBITAK 1001! Our project proposal "Abstract Reasoning with Symbol Discovery and Life-long Learning" has been accepted by TUBITAK-1001 program.
- Invited speaker in Sensorimotor Interaction, Language and Embodiment of Symbols (SMILES) workshop, SMILES @ ICDL 2020
- ICRA 2020! Our paper titled "Belief Regulated Dual Propagation Nets for Learning Action Effects on Articulated Multi-Part Objects" is accepted to ICRA 2020 pdf, video.
- RSS 2019! Our paper titled "Conditional Neural Movement Primitives" is accepted to RSS 2019! pdf, video.
- Our work received Best Poster Award in ToRK2019! link
- Served as Program Chair in ICDL-EpiRob 2018 and ICDL-EPIROB 2017. Topic editor in Frontiers in Neuroscience for research topic Machine Learning Methods for High-Level Cognitive Capabilities in Robotics.
- Organized/co-organized Türkiye Robotbilim Konferansı - ToRK2018, RSS 2018 Workshop on Computational Models of Affordance for Robotics, IROS 2018 Workshop on Language and Robotics, IROS 2017 WS on Machine Learning Methods for High-Level Cognitive Capabilities in Robotics, IROS 2016 WS on Machine Learning Methods for High-Level Cognitive Capabilities in Robotics, Shonan Meeting 2016 on Cognitive Development and Symbol Emergence in Humans and Robots, IROS 2015 Workshop on Learning object affordances, ICAR 2015 Workshop on Robot Learning, IROS 2013 Workshop on Neuroscience and Robotics, Humanoids 2012 Workshop on Developmental Robotics.
- Guest edited/editing IEEE TCDS Special Issue on Affordances, Frontiers Research Topic Machine Learning Methods for High-Level Cognitive Capabilities in Robotics
- Our research has appeared in national news TV channel Haberturk, in hurriyet.com.tr and in DW Turkce.
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