Erdem Biyik

Erdem is at the department of Computer Science at the University of Southern California as an Assistant Professor. He was a postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley mentored by Stuart Russell and Anca Dragan. He has received his B.Sc. degree from Bilkent University, Turkey, in 2017; and Ph.D. degree from Stanford University in 2022 where he was advised by Dorsa Sadigh. His research interests lie in the intersection of robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning and game theory. He is interested in enabling robots to actively learn from various forms of human feedback and designing robot policies to improve the efficiency of multi-agent systems both in cooperative and competitive settings. He also worked at Google as a research intern in 2021 where he adapted his active robot learning algorithms to recommender systems. He will join the University of Southern California as an assistant professor in 2023.