Halil Utku Unlu

Graduate Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: BS New York University Abu Dhabi

Research Areas: Robot perception, autonomous vehicles, collaborative robotics


Halil Utku Unlu is a PhD candidate at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, with a Global PhD Fellowship from NYU Abu Dhabi. He graduated with a BSc in electrical engineering and a minor in computer science (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) from NYU Abu Dhabi in 2019.

His research interest include 3D robot perception, collaborative robotics, and robot autonomy. He is part of Robotics & Intelligent Systems Control Laboratory (RISC Lab), where he is currently working towards finding efficient algorithms to address collaborative mapping problems in 3D.

Research

Designing a tomographic 3D feature extraction mechanism for efficient merging of large scale 3D maps