Burcu Kılıç
M.S. student in Computer Engineering at Middle East Technical University
I am a master’s student in Computer Engineering at Middle East Technical University, where I work with Assoc. Prof. Emre Uğur at ROMER. My research interests lie at the intersection of robot learning, reinforcement learning, and learned abstractions for planning.
I received my B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Boğaziçi University, where I was a research assistant in the Cognitive Learning and Robotics (CoLoRs) Lab. I also studied at KTH Royal Institute of Technology as an exchange student and worked as a visiting researcher at the University of Innsbruck with Justus Piater.
My latest work, “Effect-Driven Skill Abstractions for Offline Reinforcement Learning,” has been accepted as a poster at the Fortieth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2026), where I will present it in Sydney.
I am interested in how robots can acquire useful skills and compact representations from interaction data, then use those representations for decision-making and planning.