Yigit Yildirim

About Me

I have recently earned my PhD from the Computer Engineering Department (CMPE) at Bogazici University. Currently, I am a researcher focused on AI applications in robotics. In the past, I have served as a robotics engineer in several companies, a system admin and a teaching assistant in CMPE. I am an experienced ROS and Linux user and a cat father 🐱

I usually put video recordings of my academic content to my Youtube channel. You can check the channel here.

News

My CNEP paper is accepted for presentation at ICRA 2025.
Presented CNEP in the INVERSE meeting at TU Wien. Click here to view the poster
I successfully defended my thesis. I was a bit hesitant to share the recording since I umm too much:) I have finally decided to embrace my umms.
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- presentation (+600MB)
My PhD Thesis Defense will be held in Jan 10, 2025.
I am serving as a TC member in HARL workshop at ICRA 2024
Our lab, Colors, is now a partner in the INVERSE project.
I was invited to give a talk on the development of Machine Learning 9th International YUDSA Congress

Publications

[W]: Workshop, [C]: Conference, [J]: Journal

2025

📄 [J] O. Escallada, N. Osa, G. Lasa, M. M. Etxabe, F. Doğangün, Y. Yildirim, S. Bahar, E. Ugur, Human Attitudes in Robotic Path Programming: A Study of User Experience in Manual and XR-Controlled Robotic Arm Manipulation

📄 [J] F. Dogangun, S. Bahar, Y. Yildirim, B.T. Temir, E. Ugur, M.D. Dogan, RAMPA: Robotic Augmented Reality for Machine Programming by DemonstrAtion

📄 [C] [In Turkish] B. Kartal, A. Demir, E. Ugur, Y. Yildirim, Çizgeli Koşullu Sinirsel Hareket Primitifleri ile Sosyal Navigasyon Öğrenme

Submitted to the 33. IEEE Conference on Signal Processing and Communications Applications, SIU 2025
Information will be provided upon acceptance.

📄 [C] [In Turkish] R. Acar, T. Basibuyuk, S. Bahar, E. Ugur, D. Dogan, Y. Yildirim, Tutucu Entegre Edilmiş Robotlar için Artırılmış Gerçeklik Tabanlı Makine Öğrenmesi Teknikleri

Submitted to the 33. IEEE Conference on Signal Processing and Communications Applications, SIU 2025
Information will be provided upon acceptance.

📄 [C] [In Turkish] A. Gamsiz, D. Akkoc, Y. Yildirim, E. Ugur, İleri Görev Gösterimlerinden Görsel-Dil Modelleri Aracılığıyla Ters Planlama

Submitted to the 33. IEEE Conference on Signal Processing and Communications Applications, SIU 2025
Information will be provided upon acceptance.

📄 [C] [In Turkish] S. Bahar, Y. Yildirim, E. Ugur, İlişkili Robotik Görevlerin Ortak Kodlamasının Öğrenilmesi

Submitted to the 33. IEEE Conference on Signal Processing and Communications Applications, SIU 2025
Information will be provided upon acceptance.

2024

📄 [J] Y. Yildirim, E. Ugur, Conditional Neural Expert Processes for Learning Movement Primitives from Demonstration

📄 [W] Y. Yildirim, M. Sonmez, E. Ugur, Learning Early Social Maneuvers for Enhanced Social Navigation, RTSS workshop @ ICRA 2024

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📄 [W] T. Girgin , E. Girgin , Y. Yildirim , E. Ugur , M. Haklidir, Bidirectional Human Interactive AI Framework for Social Robot Navigation, RTSS workshop @ ICRA 2024

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2022

📄 [J] Y. Yildirim, E. Ugur, Learning Social Navigation from Demonstrations with Conditional Neural Processes, Interaction Studies, 23(3), pp. 427-468, 2022

2021

📄 [W] Y. Yildirim, E. Ugur, Learning Social Navigation from Demonstrations with Deep Neural Networks, RO-MAN 2021 Workshop on Robot Behavior Adaptation to Human Social Norms ({TSAR})

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