I am a CS Researcher, working under the supervision of professor Erdem Bıyık. My overarching research goal is to develop data-efficient, generalizable, and trustworthy robot learning frameworks that can operate robustly in complex, sequential settings. A central theme of my research vision is introducing structure into learning-based robotics. Rather than relying purely on end-to-end data-driven policies, I am interested in leveraging additional sources of guidance, such as prior knowledge, auxiliary modalities, and richer supervision signals, to support enhanced data curation, representation learning, policy optimization, and inference-time reasoning.
News
Apr 2026
Paper accepted at ACL 2026 —
Psychological Steering in LLMs: An Evaluation of Effectiveness and Trustworthiness
Mar 2026
Paper accepted at ICLR 2026 - Workshop on Representational Alignment —
Sparks of Rationality: Do Reasoning LLMs Align with Human Judgment and Choice?
Jan 2026
Paper accepted at ICRA 2026 —
AutoFocus-IL: VLM-based Saliency Maps for Data-Efficient Visual Imitation Learning
Jun 2025
Paper accepted at IROS 2025 —
GABRIL: Gaze-Based Regularization for Imitation Learning
Education
- BSc Computer Engineering — Sharif University of Technology