I am a PhD student in the Computational Intelligence, Vision, and Robotics Lab (CILVR) at NYU Courant, where I am lucky to be advised by Lerrel Pinto. My research focuses on data-driven dexterous manipulation for multi-fingered robot hands. Since task-specific robot data is hard to collect with multi-fingered hands, my work centers on three topics:

  1. Learning by watching humans: AINA, HuDOR, HUG
  2. Humanoid hand hardware and control that best mimic human hands: RUKA, RUKA-v2
  3. Data-efficient multi-fingered policy learning: T-Dex, TAVI

I have a master's degree in Computer Science from NYU Courant and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship in 2020. I am currently a Research Scientist intern at Amazon Frontier AI & Robotics (FAR) and previously interned as a Research Scientist on Meta's Embodied AI team. Earlier, I worked as a full-time robotics engineer at DOF Robotics for a year, interned at X (the Moonshot Factory), and did two internships at Google, one of them purely on machine learning.

In my free time, I enjoy spending time with my , crafting, and playing muggle Quidditch! :)

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Human Universal Grasping
Kevin Yuanbo Wu, Tianxing Zhou, Isaac Tu, Billy Yan, Irmak Guzey, David Fouhey, Dandan Shan‡, Lerrel Pinto‡ ‡ equal advising
arXiv preprint, 2026
RUKA-v2
Xinqi (Lucas) Liu*, Ruoxi Hu*, Alejandro Ojeda Olarte, Zhuoran Chen, Kenny Ma, Charles Cheng Ji, Lerrel Pinto, Raunaq Bhirangi, Irmak Guzey * equal contribution
ICRA Workshop, 2026
AINA
Irmak Guzey, Haozhi Qi, Julen Urain, Changhao Wang, Jessica Yin, Krishna Bodduluri, Mike Maroje Lambeta, Lerrel Pinto, Akshara Rai, Jitendra Malik, Tingfan Wu, Akash Sharma, Homanga Bharadhwaj
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2026
RUKA
Anya Zorin*, Irmak Guzey*, Billy Yan, Aadhithya Iyer, Lisa Kondrich, Nikhil X. Bhattasali, Lerrel Pinto * equal contribution
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2025
HuDOR
Irmak Guzey, Yinlong Dai, Georgy Savva, Raunaq Bhirangi, Lerrel Pinto
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025
TAVI
Irmak Guzey, Yinlong Dai, Ben Evans, Soumith Chintala, Lerrel Pinto
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024
T-Dex
Irmak Guzey, Ben Evans, Soumith Chintala, Lerrel Pinto
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2023