Renaud Detry
Researcher in robot learning & space robotics. Associate Professor at KU Leuven.
I am an Associate Professor of robot learning at KU Leuven in Belgium, where I hold a dual appointment in electrical and mechanical engineering (groups PSI and RAM).
Formerly I was group lead for the Perception Systems group at
NASA JPL, Pasadena, CA, and an Assistant Professor at
UCLouvain, Belgium. At JPL, I was machine-vision lead for the surface mission of the NASA/ESA Mars Sample Return campaign (summarized in this invited lecture), and I worked on fun climbing robots such as the one shown in this video.
My research interests center on robot learning, in particular imitation learning and reinforcement learning with world models, with a primary interest in robot manipulation. My work is motivated by applications in manufacturing, agriculture, healthcare, on-orbit operations, and planetary exploration.
In addition to my faculty position at KU Leuven: I hold the following appointments:
- I sit on the steering committee of Leuven.AI,
- I am an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO) and IEEE Transactions on Robot Learning (T-RL), and I regularly serve as associate editor for IROS and ICRA,
- I am a member of the IEEE Science and Technology Watch Board,
- I am a member of the ELLIS Society, a visiting researcher at ULiege and KTH, and a technical advisor for OpalAI.
| Office: | 01.07 (at ESAT) |
| Post: |
Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 – box 2441 B–3001 Leuven Belgium |
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| Phone: |
+32 16 37 70 36 Students: email only please. |
| Web: |
Google Scholar, LinkedIn, Twitter, KU Leuven, Leuven.AI |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-0597-1167 |
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