İlker YILDIRIM

I am a PhD student in the
Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences
421 Meliora Hall
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY, 14627
Email: iyildirim AT bcs DOT rochester DOT edu

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Research interests

I am interested in human learning, perception, and motor control. I try to understand how human cognitive and perpectual learning work by building computational models which are based on Bayesian statistics and knowledge represantation formalisms such as graphs and logic.

Previously, I have worked on learning in multiagent systems.

I am a member of Computational Cognition and Perception Lab which is advised by Robbie Jacobs.

Papers

• Cooperative Sign Language Tutoring: A Multiagent Approach. (In Press). Ilker Yildirim, Oya Aran, Pinar Yolum, Lale Akarun. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.
• Cooperative Sign Language Tutoring: A Multiagent Approach. (2009). Ilker Yildirim. Masters thesis, Bogazici University.
• Hybrid Models for Achieving and Maintaining Cooperative Symbiotic Groups. (In Press). Ilker Yildirim, Pinar Yolum. Mind & Society, Springer. (A shorter version of this paper has also appeared in proceedings of the 5th European Social Simulation Association conference, ESSA 2008).

Other refereed papers

• A Cooperative Multiagent Architecture for Turksih Sign Tutors. (2008). In Proceedings of the student session of 10th EASSS.

Conference Presentations and Posters

• Cooperation with Complement is Better. (2009). Ilker Yildirim, Haluk Bingol. Physics of Conflict and Competition, COSTMP0801 meeting, Rome, Italy.
• A Cooperative Multiagent Architecture for Turkish Sign Language Tutors, in the 10th European Agent Systems Summer School (EASSS08), on May 7 2008, Lisbon, Portugal. pdf.

• Hybrid Models for Achieving and Maintaining Collaborative Symbiotic Groups, in the ESSA'08, on Sept 9 2008, Brescia, Italy. pdf.