Ahmet Ercan Tekden
PhD student at the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Chalmers University of Technology
Contact:
e-mail: tekden AT chalmers DOT se
Education
- BSc in Computer Engineering, Bogazici University, 2012 - 2017
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MSc in Computer Engineering, Bogazici University, 2017 - 2020
Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Emre Ugur
Co-supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Aykut Erdem
Thesis Title: Object and Relation-centric Reasoning of Action Effects in Push Manipulation Tasks -
PhD Student in Electrical Engineering Department, 2021 - Ongoing
Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Yasemin Bekiroglu
Research: Data-efficient Representation Learning for Robot Grasping and Manipulation
Licentiate
Research Experience
Research Assistant at CoLoRs Lab, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
Project: IMAGINE - Robots Understanding Their Actions by Imagining Their Effects , 2017 - 2021
This project seeks to enable robots to understand the environment and objects it works with, and how
they are affected by its actions. This objective is pursued in the context of recycling of electromechanic
alappliances. Our responsibilities in this project are:
- Identify the affordances provided in a scene, i.e. the set of actions that can currently be executed.
- Determining action parameters for currently-admissible actions as selected by the planner.
- Finding the possible effects of determined actions.
Research Intern at CiNet, Osaka, Japan
Project: CREST "Cognitive Mirroring" , 14.01.2018 - 10.02.2018
I worked with a Maximum Entropy Inverse Reinforcement Learning model and applied
it to infant imitation learning problem.
Technical Skills
Frameworks, Software & Tools: ROS, Keras, PyTorch, V-Rep, Pybullet, Open3D, Trimesh, Rviz
Robots: Baxter, UR10, Lego Mindstorms
Languages: Turkish, English
Courses: Autonomous Robots(Assignments),
Introduction to Machine Learning,
Robot Learning,
Computer Vision,
Principles of Artificial Intelligence,
Introduction to Robot Control,
Introduction to Robotics(Assignments),
Natural Language Processing, Cognitive Science