Ömür Arslan is currently a research scientist in the Autonomous Motion Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS). Prior to joining MPI-IS in October 2017, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and System Engineering in August 2016 under the supervision of Daniel E. Koditschek. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2007 and from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2009, respectively. His current research interests include geometric and topological characterization of clustering methods and its application to robot motion planning and control, sensor networks, machine perception, machine learning and data mining.

At MPI-IS, his research goal is to integrate learning, sensing, control and geometry for the design of safe feedback motion planning algorithms, especially for robots operating around humans. If you are excited about doing fundamental research along these lines, please do not hesitate to contact him. You can find more about his present and future research directions at his personal website https://omurarslan.github.io/.

robotics motion planning dynamical systems control theory sensor networks machine learning optimization machine perception