Atalay Donat
Research Interests
Reinforcement Learning, Imitation Learning, Robotic Manipulation, Perception
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Atalay Donat
TU Darmstadt, FG IAS,
Hochschulstr. 10, 64289 Darmstadt
Room E327, Building S2|02
atalay(dot)donat(at)tu-darmstadt(dot)de

Atalay Donat joined the Intelligent Autonomous System lab on April, 1st, 2025 as a PhD student. He is primarily interested in developing perception-based algorithms for robotic manipulation.
Before his PhD, Atalay Donat completed his Bachelor's and Master's degree in Computer Science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. His thesis entitled “Towards Fusing Point Cloud and Visual Representations for Imitation Learning" was written under the supervision of Xiaogang Jia and Prof. Gerhard Neumann.
Research Interests
Reinforcement Learning, Imitation Learning, Robotic Manipulation, Perception
Publications
- Jia, X.; Blessing, D.; Jiang, X.; Reuss, M.; Donat, A.; Lioutikov, R.; Neumann, G. (2024). Towards Diverse Behaviors: A Benchmark for Imitation Learning with Human Demonstrations, ICLR 2024.
- Jia, X.; Wang, Q.; Donat, A.; Xing, B.; Li, G.; Zhou, H.; Celik, O.; Blessing, D.; Lioutikov, R.; Neumann, G. (2024). MaIL: Improving Imitation Learning with Selective State Space Models, CoRL 2024.