Suzan Ece Ada

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Engineering at Boğaziçi University, co-advised by Assoc. Prof. Emre Ugur and Prof. Erhan Oztop. My research is centered on robust and adaptive Reinforcement Learning (RL).

I have completed research visits at the University of Tübingen's Autonomous Learning Group with Prof. Georg Martius and at Osaka University's Symbiotic Intelligent Systems Research Center with Prof. Erhan Oztop.

Prior to my doctoral studies, I co-founded the social media startup Razzy Inc., leading iOS and backend development.

After graduating from Robert College, I earned a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering at Koç University on an academic merit scholarship and an M.Sc. at Boğaziçi University, graduating first in my class.

Selected Publications

1. S. E. Ada, G. Martius, E. Ugur and E. Oztop, "Forecasting in Offline Reinforcement Learning for Non-stationary Environments", The Thirty-ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems🌟 (NeurIPS–Spotlight), 2025🌟
2. S. E. Ada and E. Ugur, "Unsupervised Meta-Testing With Conditional Neural Processes for Hybrid Meta-Reinforcement Learning", in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, no. 10, pp. 8427-8434, Oct. 2024, (Presented in 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA 2025)), DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2024.3443496
3. S. E. Ada, E. Oztop and E. Ugur, "Diffusion Policies for Out-of-Distribution Generalization in Offline Reinforcement Learning," in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 3116-3123, April 2024, (Presented in 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024)), DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2024.3363530
4. S. E. Ada, H. Say, E. Ugur and E. Oztop, "Bidirectional Progressive Neural Networks With Episodic Return Progress for Emergent Task Sequencing and Robotic Skill Transfer," in IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 69690-69699, 2024, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3402089
5. S. E. Ada, E. Ugur, H. L. Akin, "Generalization in Transfer Learning", Robotica, 2022, DOI: 10.1017/S0263574722000625

For a complete list, please see my Google Scholar profile.

Teaching Assistant

Department of Computer Engineering, Boğaziçi University 🎓

Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2025 CmpE 220 Discrete Computational Structures
Fall 2022, Fall 2023 CmpE 250 Data Structures and Algorithms
Spring 2023, Spring 2024 CmpE 160 Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming
Spring 2022, Fall 2024 CmpE 150 Introduction to Computing

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