Cansu Sancaktar

I’m a PhD student working on intrinsically motivated RL and open-endedness, advised by Georg Martius. My work focuses on building agents that decide what’s worth learning and explore their environment efficiently and autonomously, much like children at play.

I'm excited about the continual acquisition of novel skills with minimal external supervision, progressing toward scalable, self-improving systems.

You can reach out to me at: firstname [dot] lastname [at] gmail [dot] com.

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• 05/2025 - Our paper "SENSEI: Semantic Exploration Guided by Foundation Models to Learn Versatile World Models" has been accepted to ICML 2025!
• 04/2025 - Started my research internship at the CodeGen team at FAIR Meta Paris, advised by Taco Cohen.
• 07/2024 - IMOL Workshop has been accepted to NeurIPS 2024 in Vancouver!
• 06/2024 - Moving to Amsterdam for my internship at Qualcomm in the Embodied AI Team 🤖
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09/2023 - Our paper "Regularity as Intrinsic Reward" has been accepted to NeurIPS 2023!
07/2023 - IMOL Workshop has been accepted to NeurIPS 2023 in New Orleans 🎷