ICML • 2026
Behavioral Mode Discovery for Fine-tuning Multimodal Generative PoliciesAlberta Longhini, David Emukpere, Jean-Michel Renders, Seungsu Kim
I work on robot learning, with a focus on reinforcement learning and imitation learning for robotics. I care about approaches that enable flexible physical intelligence in the real world, emphasizing robustness, reliability, and generalization. My research spans self-supervised and visual RL, RL fine-tuning of pretrained multimodal policies, and the training and evaluation of generalist robotics policies.
Beyond my research, I’m usually training for long-distance races, from 5Ks to marathons, and I also thoroughly enjoy playing and watching football. I’m particularly drawn to the adaptive motor skills of athletes, where coordination, reactivity, and improvisation come together. At the same time, I read widely across cognitive science, philosophy, scientific history, and fiction.
ICML • 2026
Behavioral Mode Discovery for Fine-tuning Multimodal Generative PoliciesAlberta Longhini, David Emukpere, Jean-Michel Renders, Seungsu Kim
arXiV • 2026
Robust Skills, Brittle Grounding: Diagnosing Restricted Generalization in Vision-Language Action Policies via Multi-Object PickingDavid Emukpere, Romain Deffayet, Jean-Michel Renders
IROS • 2025
Disentangled Object-Centric Image Representation for RoboticsDavid Emukpere, Romain Deffayet, Bingbing Wu, Romain Brégier, Michael Niemaz, Jean-Luc Meunier, Denys Proux, Jean-Michel Renders, Seungsu Kim
ICRA • 2024
SLIM: Skill Learning with Multiple CriticsDavid Emukpere, Bingbing Wu, Julien Perez, Jean-Michel Renders
Best way to reach me is email.