Scholar
Maya Cakmak
Google Scholar ID: sPlonWcAAAAJ
University of Washington
Citations & Impact
Citations
6,789
H-index
38
i10-index
97
Publications
20
Co-authors
50
list available
Contact
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Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Two new papers presented at CoRL 2024
- - Presented 'AccessTeleopKit: A Toolkit for Creating Accessible Web-Based Interfaces for Tele-Operating an Assistive Robot' at UIST 2024
- - AccessComputing 6 funded as part of NSF's $48M investment into Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC)
- - Best Short Contribution award at HRI 2024 for 'Using 3D Mice to Control Robot Manipulators'
- - Best Video award at HRI 2024 for 'Robots for Humanity: In-Home Deployment of Stretch RE2'
- - Keynote talk at RO-MAN 2024 titled 'Towards Physically Assistive Robots in the Home'
- - Published a literature review on physically assistive robots in Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems
- - Paper on the impact of customization of assistive robot teleoperation interfaces accepted at RO-MAN 2023
- - Best Design Paper award at HRI 2023 for paper on assistive feeding for social dining
Research Experience
- - Conducted research in Robotics at Kovan Lab, Turkey
- - Worked for five years at the Socially Intelligent Machines Lab
- - Post-doctoral research fellow at Willow Garage, Inc., working with Leila Takayama
- - Professor at the University of Washington, Allen School for Computer Science & Engineering, directing the Human-Centered Robotics Lab
Education
- - B.Sc. in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Turkey
- - M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Turkey, advisor: Erol Sahin
- - Ph.D. in Robotics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, advisor: Andrea L. Thomaz
Background
- Research interests: human-robot interaction, end-user programming, and assistive robotics. Aims to develop robots that can be programmed and controlled by a diverse group of users with unique needs and preferences to do useful tasks.
Miscellany
- Attended the Paris Olympics to watch the Sports Climbing Boulder & Lead Combined finals in 2024
