Doctoral Thesis Defense of Ozan Özdemir

5 December 2024

On 05.12.2024, our colleague Ozan Özdemir had the successful defense of his doctoral thesis "Embodied Crossmodal Language Learning Using Neurocognitively Plausible Mechanisms". We congratulate him for his graduation and wishing the best for his future career! His thesis can be found here.

Here are some highlight publications that arose during his doctorate:

Embodying Language Models in Robot Action

Learning Bidirectional Action-Language Translation with Limited Supervision and Testing with Incongruent Input

Language-Model-Based Paired Variational Autoencoders for Robotic Language Learning

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