Emre Ugur

Ph.D.

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is an Assistant Professor in Dept. of Computer Engineering, Bogazici University,
head of the CoLoRs group.
received his PhD, MSc and BSc degrees in Computer Engineering from Middle East Technical University (METU, Turkey), in 2010, 2006 and 2003, respectively. He was a research assistant in KOVAN Lab., METU between 2003-2009; worked as a research scientist in Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute (ATR, Japan) from 2009 to 2013; visited Emergent Robotics Laboratory, Osaka University, as a specially appointed Assistant Professor with cross-appointment in 2015-2016; and worked as a senior researcher in Intelligent and Interactive Systems, Informatics Institute, University of Innsbruck from 2013 to 2016. He participated in several EU funded projects, including Xperience, ROSSI, MACS and Swarm-bots. He is interested in developmental and cognitive robotics, and brain-robot interface methods.
He is currently Principle Investigator of IMAGINE project supported by European Commission, Horizon 2020 Programme

News
• Our paper titled "Conditional Neural Movement Primitives" is accepted to RSS 2019! pdf, video.
• Our work received Best Poster Award in ToRK2019! link

Activities
• 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.

Google scholar page.

Some Robot Videos: