Irmak Guzey
PhD student in Computer Science, New York University (she/her)
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irmakguzey@nyu.edu
New York, NY, United States
I am currently a first year PhD student in Computatinal Intelligence, Vision, and Robotics Lab (CILVR) at NYU and am lucky to be advised by Prof. Lerrel Pinto.
I had my master’s degree from New York University, Computer Science at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. I was awarded with a Fulbright scholarship in 2020.
My research mostly focus on Policy Learning and Representation Learning. I enjoy working on tackling different tasks in Manipulation and Navigation in Robotics.
On top of my research, with my interest in Robotics and Machine Learning, I worked as a full-time robotics engineer in DOF Robotics for a year, had an internship in X - the Moonshot Factory and 2 different internships in Google, one of them being purely on machine learning.
News
Sep 1, 2024 | Started my PhD program in Computer Science at NYU, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences! I will be working on Robot Learning for Dexterous Manipulation, advised by Lerrel Pinto. |
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Sep 25, 2023 | We just published our latest project TAVI (See to Touch: Learning Tactile Dexterity through Visual Incentives)! It got accepted to ICRA 2024. TAVI learns an online visuo-tactile policy using image only guidance. Learned policy can adapt to new environments under only 1 hour of training! For more check out website and code. |
Mar 22, 2023 | T-Dex (Dexterity from Touch: Self-Supervised Pre-Training of Tactile Representations with Robotic Play) got accepted to CoRL 2023! This is the first conference publication of mine as the main author. T-Dex is a dexterous manipulation framework that uses tactile observations. Tactile encoders are trained using SSL objectives on a tactile play data. |
Oct 12, 2022 | Holo-Dex: Teaching Dexterity with Immersive Mixed Reality got accepted to ICRA 2023! This is the first publication of my master’s and I had a blast working on this project with my colleagues. Holo-Dex is also out on Arxiv now. |
Sep 1, 2021 | Started my master’s program in Computer Science in NYU, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences! |
Sep 1, 2021 | Ended my one year of full-time working experience as a robotics engineer in DOF robotics to start my master’s program. Worked on implementing an autonomous guided vehicle (AGV) using ROS. |
Nov 30, 2020 | Ended my internship as a Machine Learning Engineer in Google, Paris. My main work was focused on improving Youtube’s annotation system by feature engineering. |
Aug 15, 2020 | Was awarded with a Fulbright scholarship on Computer Science. Was one of the 3 people who was granted a Fulbright scholarship in Computer Science in Turkey. |
Jun 2, 2020 | My first publication Human Motion Prediction with Graph Neural Networks was accepted to Long-Term Human Motion Prediction workshop of ICRA 2020 !. |
Sep 10, 2019 | Ended my internship as a Software Engineer in X, the Moonshot Factory. |
Aug 20, 2018 | Ended my internship as a Software Engineer in Google Zurich! Worked on integrating UEFI Extraction’s results into the pipelines of malware detection systems. |