ufuk topcu

Full Professor, University of Texas, Austin

Joined

March 2017

Names

ufuk topcu (Preferred)

Ufuk Topcu

Emails

****@utexas.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Full Professor

University of Texas, Austin (utexas.edu)

2015 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Andrew Packard

Present

Expertise

Autonomy

Present

Reinforcement learning

Present

Verification

Present

Publications

A Multi-Fidelity Control Variate Approach for Policy Gradient Estimation
Xinjie Liu, Cyrus Neary, Kushagra Gupta, Wesley A. Suttle, Christian Ellis, ufuk topcu, David Fridovich-Keil
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
MoS-VLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model with One-Shot Skill Adaptation
Ruihan Zhao, Tyler Ingebrand, Sandeep P. Chinchali, ufuk topcu
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
DiBS-MTL: Transformation-Invariant Multitask Learning with Direction Oracles
Surya Murthy, Kushagra Gupta, Mustafa O. Karabag, David Fridovich-Keil, ufuk topcu
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Function Spaces Without Kernels: Learning Compact Hilbert Space Representations
Su Ann Low, Quentin Rommel, Kevin Miller, Adam Thorpe, ufuk topcu
- ICLR 2026 Conference Desk Rejected Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Scaling Curriculum Learning for Autonomous Driving
Cevahir Koprulu, David Paz, Feng Tao, Yuliang Guo, Xinyu Huang, ufuk topcu, Liu Ren
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Runtime Safety through Adaptive Shielding: From Hidden Parameter Inference to Provable Guarantees
Minjae Kwon, Tyler Ingebrand, ufuk topcu, Lu Feng
- ICLR 2026 Conference Desk Rejected Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Evaluating Human Trust in LLM-Based Planners: A Preliminary Study
Shenghui Chen, Yunhao Yang, Kayla Boggess, Seongkook Heo, Lu Feng, ufuk topcu
- Submitted to NeurIPS Lock-LLM Workshop 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Real-Time Privacy Preservation for Robot Visual Perception
Minkyu Choi, Yunhao Yang, Neel P. Bhatt, Kushagra Gupta, Sahil Shah, Aditya Rai, David Fridovich-Keil, ufuk topcu, Sandeep P. Chinchali
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
Dynamic Coalition Structure Detection in Natural Language-based Interactions
Andy Liu, Abhishek Ninad Kulkarni, Jean-Raphaël Gaglione, Daniel Fried, ufuk topcu
- AAMAS 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Online Adaptation of Terrain-Aware Dynamics for Planning in Unstructured Environments
William Ward, Sarah Etter, Tyler Ingebrand, Christian Ellis, Adam Thorpe, ufuk topcu
- RSS 2025 Workshop ROAR Oral
- Readers: Everyone

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