I am a second-year PhD student in Computer Science at University College London, where I am developing curriculum learning and world model methods that enable embodied agents to learn from synthetic data and generalize to real-world environments. I am co-supervised by Ilija Bogunovic and Jack Parker-Holder, and I am a member of UCL DARK Lab and Rhine AI Lab. Before starting my PhD at UCL, I completed a year-long deep learning research internship at HUAWEI R&D in Cambridge, UK, and hold an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from Leeds University. I have many years of experience in motorsport engineering, but my true passion is in creating machines that can think rather than race.

Publications

Illustration of IMac

Imagined Autocurricula

Ahmet H. Güzel*, Matthew Thomas Jackson, Jarek Luca Liesen, Tim Rocktäschel, Jakob Nicolaus Foerster, Ilija Bogunovic, Jack Parker-Holder

Accepted 2025 NeurIPS | paper

Illustration of zero-shot visual generalization from offline data

Synthetic Data is Sufficient for Zero-Shot Visual Generalization from Offline Data

Ahmet H. Güzel*, Jack Parker-Holder, Ilija Bogunovic

Accepted 2025 TMLR | paper | 3rd Place Winner - UCL AI CDT Summer Research Poster Competition 2025

Illustration of ChromaCorrect technology for VR headsets

ChromaCorrect: Prescription Correction in Virtual Reality Headsets Through Perceptual Guidance

Ahmet H. Güzel*, Jeanne Beyazian, Praneeth Chakravarthula, Kaan Akșit

Biomedical Optics Express 2023 | paper | code | Best Poster Award UKRI AI CDT Conference 2023

Illustration of fashion image segmentation using AI

Designing Efficient Image-to-Image Translation Artificial Neural Network Model For Segmenting Fashion Images

Ahmet H. Güzel*, Peihua Lai, Stephan Westland

Accepted to Intelligent Systems Conference 2024 | paper | code

Teaching Assistant Roles

  • 2024/2025 Term 2 | COMP0258: Open-Endedness and General Intelligence
  • 2024/2025 Term 2 | ELEC0141: Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing
  • 2024/2025 Term 1-2 | COMP0016 Systems Engineering lab
  • 2024/2025 Term 1 | COMP0213: Object-Oriented Programming for Robotics and AI

UCL Dark Lab MSc Thesis Supervision

  • 2024/2025: Selective Inference-Time Planning with World Model Imagination with Labeebah Islam (UCL Machine Learning MSc)
  • 2024/2025: Offline Diffusion World Models for Continuous Control Tasks with Adam Vawda-Oomerje (UCL Machine Learning MSc)