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 Asst. Prof. Matsushima Tatsuya and Prof. Yusuke Iwasawa where I study ways to make robots smarter through end-to-end methods (vision-language-action models, world models, world actions models, etc...). I am also a senior research scientist at SoftBank Intuitions where I also work on VLA and world models.
Publications
- ICRA 2026 Workshop: From Data to Decisions, When Absolute State Fails: Evaluating Proprioceptive Encodings for Robust Manipulation, M. Alvarez, R. Watanabe, P. Crook, A. Zeinaddini Meymand, S. Kurian, P. Ferreiro, G. Sano
- 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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Senior Research Scientist
06/2026 ~ Today
SB Intuitions π―π΅
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Robot Foundation Model Engineer
05/2025 ~ 06/2026
Telexistence π―π΅
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Research Engineer
10/2023 ~ 05/2025
NABLAS π―π΅
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R&D Engineer
04/2023 ~ 10/2023
Pretia Technologies π―π΅
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ML SWE Intern
Summer 2022
Meta π¬π§
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R&D Engineer
08/2019 ~ 08/2021
ACSL, Ltd π―π΅
Education
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PhD
2024 ~ 2027
Graduate School of Engineering, Dept. of Technology Management for Innovation
University of Tokyo π―π΅
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Master of Science - Mathematics, Vision, Learning
2022 ~ 2023
Graduate School of Mathematics, Dept. of Mathematics
Γcole Normale SupΓ©rieure Paris-Saclay π«π·
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Master of Science - Computer Science
2018 ~ 2019
Faculty of Science, Dept. of Computer Science
University of Sherbrooke π¨π¦
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Master of Engineering - Software Engineering
2014 ~ 2019
Dept. of Computer Science
Polytech Tours π«π·