Atil Iscen

Researcher, Google

Joined

April 2020

Names

Atil Iscen (Preferred)

Emails

****@google.com (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Google Scholar

DBLP

Career & Education History

Researcher

Google (google.com)

2014 – Present

PhD student

Oregon State University (oregonstate.edu)

2009 – 2014

MS student

METU (metu.edu.tr)

2006 – 2009

Undergrad student

METU (metu.edu.tr)

2002 – 2006

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Kagan Tumer

2009 – 2014

Expertise

Robotics

Reinforcement Learning

Evoutionary Strategies

2012 – Present

Multiagent Learning

Reward Shaping

2007 – Present

Publications

Code World Models for General Game Playing
Wolfgang Lehrach, Daniel Hennes, Miguel Lazaro-Gredilla, Xinghua Lou, Carter Wendelken, Zun Li, Antoine Dedieu, Marc Lanctot, Atil Iscen, John Schultz, Marcus Chiam, Ian Gemp, Piotr Zielinski, Satinder Singh, Kevin Patrick Murphy
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
SAS-Prompt: Large Language Models as Numerical Optimizers for Robot Self-Improvement
Heni Ben Amor, Laura Graesser, Atil Iscen, David B D'Ambrosio, Saminda Wishwajith Abeyruwan, Alex Bewley, Yifan Zhou, Kamalesh Kalirathinam, Swaroop Mishra, Pannag R Sanketi
- ICRA 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis
David B D'Ambrosio, Saminda Wishwajith Abeyruwan, Laura Graesser, Atil Iscen, Heni Ben Amor, Alex Bewley, Barney Reed, Krista Reymann, Leila Takayama, Yuval Tassa, Krzysztof Marcin Choromanski, Erwin Coumans, Deepali Jain, Navdeep Jaitly, Natasha Jaques, Satoshi Kataoka, Yuheng Kuang, Nevena Lazic, Reza Mahjourian, Sherry Moore et al. (7 additional authors not shown)
- WRL@ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
EvoControl: Multi-Frequency Bi-Level Control for High-Frequency Continuous Control
Samuel Holt, Todor Davchev, Dhruva Tirumala, Ben Moran, Atil Iscen, Antoine Laurens, Yixin Lin, Erik Frey, Markus Wulfmeier, Francesco Romano, Nicolas Heess
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Evolving Control: Evolved High Frequency Control for Continuous Control Tasks
Samuel Holt, Todor Davchev, Dhruva Tirumala, Ben Moran, Yixin Lin, Antoine Laurens, Atil Iscen, Erik Frey, Markus Wulfmeier, Francesco Romano, Nicolas Heess
- CoRL 2024 Workshop SAFE-ROL Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis
David B. D'Ambrosio, Saminda Abeyruwan, Laura Graesser, Atil Iscen, Heni Ben Amor, Alex Bewley, Barney J. Reed, Krista Reymann, Leila Takayama, Yuval Tassa, Krzysztof Choromanski, Erwin Coumans, Deepali Jain, Navdeep Jaitly, Natasha Jaques, Satoshi Kataoka, Yuheng Kuang, Nevena Lazic, Reza Mahjourian, Sherry Moore et al. (7 additional authors not shown)
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Prosody for Intuitive Robotic Interface Design: It's Not What You Said, It's How You Said It
Elaheh Sanoubari, Atil Iscen, Leila Takayama, Stefano Saliceti, Corbin Cunningham, Ken Caluwaerts
- CoRR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Robotic Table Tennis: A Case Study into a High Speed Learning System
David B. D'Ambrosio, Jonathan Abelian, Saminda Abeyruwan, Michael Ahn, Alex Bewley, Justin Boyd, Krzysztof Choromanski, Omar Cortes, Erwin Coumans, Tianli Ding, Wenbo Gao, Laura Graesser, Atil Iscen, Navdeep Jaitly, Deepali Jain, Juhana Kangaspunta, Satoshi Kataoka, Gus Kouretas, Yuheng Kuang, Nevena Lazic et al. (15 additional authors not shown)
- CoRR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Robotic Table Tennis: A Case Study into a High Speed Learning System
David B. D'Ambrosio, Navdeep Jaitly, Vikas Sindhwani, Ken Oslund, Peng Xu, Nevena Lazic, Anish Shankar, Tianli Ding, Jonathan Abelian, Erwin Coumans, Gus Kouretas, Thinh Nguyen, Justin Boyd, Atil Iscen, Reza Mahjourian, Vincent Vanhoucke, Alex Bewley, Yuheng Kuang, Michael Ahn, Deepali Jain et al. (14 additional authors not shown)
- Robotics: Science and Systems 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Barkour: Benchmarking Animal-level Agility with Quadruped Robots
Ken Caluwaerts, Atil Iscen, J. Chase Kew, Wenhao Yu, Tingnan Zhang, Daniel Freeman, Kuang-Huei Lee, Lisa Lee, Stefano Saliceti, Vincent Zhuang, Nathan Batchelor, Steven Bohez, Federico Casarini, Jose Enrique Chen, Omar Cortes, Erwin Coumans, Adil Dostmohamed, Gabriel Dulac-Arnold, Alejandro Escontrela, Erik Frey et al. (24 additional authors not shown)
- Published: 01 Jan 2023, Last Modified: 22 Sept 2023
- CoRR 2023
- Readers: Everyone

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