Alperen Degirmenci

Alperen Degirmenci is a Senior Robotics Research Engineer at NVIDIA's Seattle Robotics Lab.

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.

Sim2Val: Leveraging Correlation Across Test Platforms for Variance-Reduced Metric Estimation

Learning-based robotic systems demand rigorous validation to assure reliable performance, but extensive real-world testing is often prohibitively expensive, and if conducted may still yield insufficient data for high-confidence guarantees. In this work we introduce Sim2Val, a general estimation framework that leverages paired data across test platforms, e.g., paired simulation and real-world observations, to achieve better estimates of real-world metrics via the method of control variates.