Burak Bolat

I'm driven by a deep curiosity to uncover the algorithms behind everything that piques my interest. My approach to understanding is hands-on—I love to touch, see, and share my discoveries with others. I’m constantly observing to find patterns and states, but I don’t stop there. If I can interact with something, I do. Whether it’s moving a robot or experimenting with its sensors, or riding a hoverboard (sorry, Romer colleagues!), I believe in diving in and learning through doing. This is why I spend most of my time playing, trying, and failing, as it’s the best way to learn.

This hands-on approach is one of the reasons I chose robotics. It gives me the opportunity to physically interact with systems, see them work, and show others the magic behind them. Computer vision is especially exciting for me because it lets robots "sense" the world, and I can visualize nearly every step of that process. It's like following the journey of an image from start to finish, and it fascinates me.

While robotics is my main focus, I also have a broad curiosity in other areas of computer science, like motion planning and collision avoidance, which I studied during my first internship. Computer graphics is another area that caught my attention during a course, and I had the chance to dive deep into it during my time at Rapsodo, where I worked on generating synthetic data for training. This experience further fueled my interest in the field, and I’d love to explore it even more.

When I’m not in the lab or the office, you’ll find me playing football, gaming, lifting weights, reading classics, or trying to learn electric guitar.