Maxime Alvarez

Hello !

I am a 2nd year PhD student at the University of Tokyo in the Matsuo-Iwasawa lab supervised by Prof. Matsuo and mentored by Matsushima Tatsuya where I study ways to make robots smarter through visual-language-action models. I am also a robot foundation model engineer at Telexistence where I also work on VLA models.

Publications

• Under review, Leave No Observation Behind: Real-time Correction for VLA Action Chunks, K. Sendai, M. Alvarez, T. Matsushima, Y. Matsuo, Y. Iwasawa
• IROS 2025 RoboFineMani Workshop, FTACT: Force Torque aware Action Chunking Transformer for Pick-and-Reorient Bottle Task, R. Watanabe, M. Alvarez, P. Ferreiro, P. Savkin, G. Sano
• ICLR 2022 ML Evaluation Workshop, A Revealing Large-Scale Evaluation of Unsupervised Anomaly Detection Algorithms, M. Alvarez, J.C. Verdier, D.J.K. Nkashama, M. Frappier, P.M. Tardif, F. Kabanza

Experience

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  Robot Foundation Model Engineer

  05/2025 ~ Today

  Telexistence 🇯🇵

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  Research Engineer

  10/2023 ~ 05/2025

  NABLAS 🇯🇵

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  R&D Engineer

  04/2023 ~ 10/2023

  Pretia Technologies 🇯🇵

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  ML SWE Intern

  Summer 2022

  Meta 🇬🇧

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  R&D Engineer

  08/2019 ~ 08/2021

  ACSL, Ltd 🇯🇵

Education

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  PhD

  2024 ~ 2027

  Graduate School of Engineering, Dept. of Technology Management for Innovation

  University of Tokyo 🇯🇵

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  Master of Science - Mathematics, Vision, Learning

  2022 ~ 2023

  Graduate School of Mathematics, Dept. of Mathematics

  École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay 🇫🇷

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  Master of Science - Computer Science

  2018 ~ 2019

  Faculty of Science, Dept. of Computer Science

  University of Sherbrooke 🇨🇦

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  Master of Engineering - Software Engineering

  2014 ~ 2019

  Dept. of Computer Science

  Polytech Tours 🇫🇷