Erhan Öztop
Associate Professor
Computer Science
Ozyegin University
Turkey
Biography
Erhan Öztop earned his Ph.D. at the University of Southern California in 2002. In the same year, he joined Computational Neuroscience Laboratories at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, (ATR) in Japan. There he worked as a researcher and later a senior research and group leader where he also served as vice department head for two research groups and held visiting associate professor position at Osaka University (2002-2011). Currently, he is a Computer Science faculty member of Ozyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey, and is affiliated with ATR, Japan as a visiting researcher.
Research Interest
computational study of action understanding and intelligent behavior, human-machine interface, cognitive neuroscience, robotics and machine learning.
Publications
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Ugur E, Nagai Y, Celikkanat H, Oztop E (2015) Parental scaffolding as a bootstrapping mechanism for learning grasp affordances and imitation skills. Robotica 33 (05): 1163-1180
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Ugur E, Sahin E, Nagai Y, Oztop E (2015) Staged Development of Robot Skills: Behavior Formation, Affordance Learning and Imitation, IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development 7(2), pp. 119-139
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Sezener E, Oztop E (2015) Minimal sign representation of Boolean functions: algorithms and exact results for low dimensions. Neural Computation 27(8):1796-823
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Babic J, Oztop E, Kawato M (2016) Human motor adaptation in full body movements: squat-to-stand under postural perturbations. Nature Scientific Reports 6: 32868 (doi:10.1038/srep32868)
