Focus Period lund 2025
PhD Student
Istanbul Technical University (Turkey)
Abdullah Cihan Ak is a Ph.D. candidate and research assistant at Istanbul Technical University, where he also works as a researcher in AIRLAB. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Faculty of Computer Engineering and is expected to complete his Ph.D. in late 2025.
His research focuses on robot skill learning in household environments, with an emphasis on failure prevention. The goal of his work is to develop reinforcement learning based methods that enable robots to learn skills capable of preventing failures, making them safer and more accessible for everyday human use.