CV

Research Assistant

Computer Vision for Human Computer Interaction (CV:HCI) Lab, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

• Supporting vision-language-action foundation model adaptation for ARMAR-6/7 humanoids and bimanual Franka Emika platforms through Isaac Sim, hardware interfacing, teleoperation, and model–robot integration.
• Contributing to research on reducing the manual human supervision required to adapt vision-language-action models to new robot embodiments.
• Employed at the CV:HCI Lab (Prof. Rainer Stiefelhagen); supervised by Dr.-Ing. David Schneider, working within the H²T group.

Imitation Learning with State Space Models

Intuitive Robots Lab, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Research Intern · PyTorch, Mamba

• Investigating whether state space model recurrence, used as the primary temporal backbone rather than a shallow add-on, improves long-horizon, memory-dependent manipulation.
• Co-developed a state space model–based policy with recurrent memory that jointly processes vision, language, and proprioception, paired with a flow-matching action head for chunked prediction.
• Ran controlled ablations of the memory design and evaluated in simulation and on real-robot memory tasks on a Franka Emika Panda; results and a preprint will be released soon.
• Conducted under Pankhuri Vanjani with TT-Prof. Dr. Rudolf Lioutikov.

Undergraduate Researcher

TED University

TDSal: Task-Based Top-Down Saliency Prediction · Computer Vision, Visual Attention

• Developed a task-driven saliency model integrating YOLO visual features with Sentence-BERT task embeddings through transformer-based multimodal fusion.
• Evaluated on CC, KLDiv, SIM, NSS, and AUC-Borji, achieving an NSS of 3.53 and AUC-Borji of 0.9489.
• Accepted for publication in the CGI 2026 LNCS proceedings; supervised by Prof. Tolga Kurtuluş Çapın.

Artificial Intelligence Engineer

Start You UP

• Built AI instructor models using prompting and fine-tuning workflows for persona-driven interactive learning.
• Contributed to data pipelines for transcription, structured JSON generation, and adaptive question answering using Whisper and Azure OpenAI.

Software Engineer Intern

Intertech

• Developed a financial literacy chatbot using Azure OpenAI, React.js, and Python.
• Built backend integrations and response-quality evaluation workflows.