Sanem Sariel Uzer

Prof. Dr. Sanem Sariel Uzer is a Professor at Istanbul Technical University's Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering within the Faculty of Computer and Informatics. He holds a PhD in Computer Engineering from ITU and has been teaching since 2007, specializing in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Algorithms. He leads the ITU Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory and coordinates the Game and Interaction Technologies Master's Program.

Education: B.Sc. in Control and Computer Engineering (1995-1999), M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering (1999-2007), all from ITU. He conducted research at Georgia Institute of Technology (2004-2006) and served as a visiting researcher at the University of South Florida (2008) and University of Pennsylvania (2011).

Research focuses on cognitive robotics, multi-robot team strategies, lifelong learning for robots, and reinforcement learning applications. His work includes developing open-source robot vision systems and safety-critical manipulation techniques. He has led TUBITAK projects on artificial learning methods and humanoid robotics.

Awards include TÜBİTAK's 2018 Technology Award for collaborative robotics software and multiple project performance recognitions. He is an active member of IEEE, AAAI, and RoboCup's executive board, co-founding Turkey's Robotics Conference (ToRK).

Advising over 30 graduate students, his lab has contributed to RoboCup competitions and developed systems for robot vision and environment modeling. Current projects explore deep reinforcement learning for daily task automation in humanoid robots.