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Onur Celik

Onur Celik

Postdoc

Joined in 2020

I graduated in October 2025 and am currently working as a postdoctoral researcher, focusing on reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms.

I started my PhD at the University of Tübingen in July 2019 and joined the Autonomous Learning Robot group in early 2020, where I continued my doctoral research. My research revolves around reinforcement learning and its applications to robotics. I am particularly interested in developing RL algorithms for expressive policies, such as diffusion-based policies. These types of policies are often challenging to optimize and require tailored training approaches. More generally, I’m interested in making RL methods more sample-efficient so they can be applied more effectively to real robotic systems.

Before my PhD, I completed my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at Technische Universität Darmstadt.