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Career

· Postdoctoral Researcher, New York University2025–
· PhD Student, ENS Paris2021–2025
· PhD Student, INRIA2021–2025
· MSc in Mathematics, Computer Vision, and Machine Learning, École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay
· Engineering Degree, École Polytechnique

Publications (28)

Contact Models in Robotics: A Comparative Analysis
IEEE Transactions on robotics · 2023
47
cited
Differentiable Collision Detection: a Randomized Smoothing Approach
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2022
39
cited
GJK++: Leveraging Acceleration Methods for Faster Collision Detection
IEEE Transactions on robotics · 2024
27
cited
Leveraging Randomized Smoothing for Optimal Control of Nonsmooth Dynamical Systems
Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems · 2022
27
cited
Collision Detection Accelerated: An Optimization Perspective
Robotics: Science and Systems · 2022
25
cited
Differentiable Rendering with Perturbed Optimizers
Neural Information Processing Systems · 2021
17
cited
From Compliant to Rigid Contact Simulation: a Unified and Efficient Approach
Robotics: Science and Systems · 2024
15
cited
End-to-End and Highly-Efficient Differentiable Simulation for Robotics
arXiv.org · 2024
6
cited
Augmenting differentiable physics with randomized smoothing
arXiv.org · 2022
5
cited
Differentiable Simulation of Soft Robots with Frictional Contacts
International Conference on Soft Robotics · 2025
5
cited
Enforcing the consensus between Trajectory Optimization and Policy Learning for precise robot control
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation · 2022
5
cited
Differentiable optimization for robotics: simulation, learning and control. (Optimisation différentiable pour la robotique: simulation, apprentissage et contrôle)
2024
End-to-End and Highly-Efficient Differentiable Simulation for Robotics
Value-guided action planning with JEPA world models
2025
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