Merhaba! Welcome to my research portfolio. I’m a second-year Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan, working with Dr. Katie Skinner at the Field Robotics Group.

I’m interested in applying probabilistic learning methods for computer vision and robotics to tasks such as state estimation, mapping, and decision-making in challenging environments.

I previously worked at iRobot, and have interned at the University of Washington Applied Physics Lab as a visiting researcher, advised by Dr. Aaron Marburg.

Below are papers and projects that I’ve worked on.

2024

🐢TURTLMap: Real-time Localization and Dense Mapping of Low-texture Underwater Environments with a Low-cost Unmanned Underwater Vehicle

Jingyu Song, Onur Bagoren*, Razan Adigani, Advaith V. Sethuraman, Katherine A. Skinner (*denotes equal contribution)

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2024)

Machine Learning for Shipwreck Segmentation from Side Scan Sonar Imagery: Dataset and Benchmark

Advaith V. Sethuraman, Anja Sheppard, Onur Bagoren, Christopher Pinnow, Jamey Anderson, Timothy C. Havens, Katherine A. Skinner,

International Journal of Robotics Research, 2024

2023

Uncertainty-Aware Acoustic Localization and Mapping for Underwater Robots

Jingyu Song*, Onur Bagoren* Katherine A. Skinner (* denotes equal contribution)

In OCEANS 2023 Limerick, 1-9

PUGS: Perceptual Uncertainty for Grasp Selection in Underwater Environments

Onur Bagoren, Marc Micatka, Katherine A. Skinner, Aaron Marburg

2025 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2025)

VAIR: Visuo-Acoustic Implicit Representations for Low-Cost, Multi-Modal Transparent Surface Reconstruction in Indoor Scenes

Advaith V. Sethuraman*, Onur Bagoren*, Harikrishnan Seetharaman, Dalton Richardson, Joseph Taylor, Katherine A. Skinner (*denotes equal contribution)

2025 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2025)

2025

OceanSim: A GPU-Accelerated Underwater Robot Perception Simulation Framework

Jingyu Song, Haoyu Ma, Onur Bagoren, Advaith Sethuraman, Yiting Zhang, Katherine A. Skinner

In Submission