Alperen Degirmenci  

 



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 Alperen Degirmenci is a Senior Robotics Research Engineer at NVIDIA's [Seattle Robotics Lab](https://research.nvidia.com/labs/srl/).

Prior to joining SRL, Alperen worked on Autonomous Driving at NVIDIA, building and scaling learning-based autonomy at the intersection of research and product. He worked on latent-space world models, end-to-end learning, multi-modality object detection and tracking for autolabeling, and VLAs.

Alperen earned his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Harvard University in 2018 and 2015 with a secondary field in Computational Science and Engineering, and his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University in 2012, with minors in mathematics, computer science, robotics, and computer-integrated surgery. Alperen’s research at the Harvard Biorobotics Lab focused on real-time, high-performance algorithm development for medical ultrasound image processing and robotic procedure guidance in catheter-based cardiac interventions.



   Research Area(s)

[Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning ](/index.php/research-area/machine-learning-artificial-intelligence)

[Generative AI](/index.php/research-area/generative-ai)

[Physical AI](/index.php/research-area/physical-ai)

[Robotics](/index.php/research-area/robotics)

 

 

  

 Main Field of Interest

[Robotics](/index.php/research-area/robotics)

 

  

 Google Scholar

[https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HIyXb5kAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HIyXb5kAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao)

 

  

 

 

 



 ### Publications

 

### 2025 

[Beyond Behavior Cloning in Autonomous Driving: a Survey of Closed-Loop Training Techniques](/index.php/publication/2025-12_beyond-behavior-cloning-autonomous-driving-survey-closed-loop-training)

[Peter Karkus](/index.php/person/peter-karkus), [Maximilian Igl](/index.php/person/maximilian-igl), [Yuxiao Chen](/index.php/person/yuxiao-chen), Kashyap Chitta, Jef Packer, [Bertrand Douillard](/index.php/person/bertrand-douillard), [Thomas Tian](/index.php/person/thomas-tian), Alexander Naumann, Guillermo Garcia-Cobo, Shuhan Tan, [Alperen Degirmenci](/index.php/person/alperen-degirmenci), Alexander Popov, Nikolai Smolyanskiy, Urs Muller, [Boris Ivanovic](/index.php/person/boris-ivanovic), [Marco Pavone](/index.php/person/marco-pavone)