Ege Yuceel
Hi, I’m Ege Yuceel, a second-year Ph.D. student in the Reliable Autonomy Group at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), advised by Prof. Sayan Mitra.
My research interests broadly lie in robotics, particularly in exploring the robust and safe limits of vision-based control. I am also interested in developing planning and localization algorithms that have soundness and completeness guarantees in minimal-information settings, with applications to safe autonomy, reach-avoid planning, and vision-guided control.
Previously, I completed my B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bilkent University, where I worked with Dr. Muhammed Ömer Sayın in the Games, Decisions, and Networks Lab. My undergraduate research focused on multi-agent learning and game theory.
📰 News
- October 2025: Our paper “Performance-Guided Refinement for Visual Aerial Navigation using Editable Gaussian Splatting in FalconGym 2.0” is now available on arXiv.
- 🎉 June 2025: Our paper “Convergence of Heterogeneous Learning Dynamics in Zero-sum Stochastic Games” is published in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC). Read on IEEE Xplore
- 🎉 July 2024: Our paper “Strategizing against Q-learners: A Control-theoretical Approach” was published in IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS). Read on IEEE Xplore
- August 2024: I began my Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UIUC, joining the Reliable Autonomy Group under Prof. Sayan Mitra, and received the Promise of Excellence Fellowship.
- May 2024: Graduated with High Honors (GPA 3.88/4.00) from Bilkent University and received the Research Excellence Award.
🔍 Research Interests
- Robust and agile vision-based control
- Safe autonomy and reach-avoid planning
- Planning and localization under minimal sensing