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.

Before UR, 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

• A Rational Analysis of the Acquisition of Multisensory Representations. (in press). Yildirim, I., Jacobs, R. Cognitive Science.
• A Bayesian Nonparametric Approach to Multisensory Perception. (2010). Yildirim, I., Jacobs, R. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society .

Selected papers before UR

• Cooperative Sign Language Tutoring: A Multiagent Approach. (2009). Ilker Yildirim, Oya Aran, Pinar Yolum, Lale Akarun. Engineering Societies in Agents' World X, LNAI 5881. [Best paper award, ESAW X.]
• Cooperative Sign Language Tutoring: A Multiagent Approach. (2009). Ilker Yildirim. Masters thesis, Bogazici University.
• Hybrid Models for Achieving and Maintaining Cooperative Symbiotic Groups. (2009). Ilker Yildirim, Pinar Yolum. Mind & Society , 8(2), 243-258. (A shorter version of this paper has also appeared in proceedings of the 5th European Social Simulation Association conference, ESSA 2008).