Alban Laflaquiere

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Alban is a research scientist at Sony AI. He received his engineering degree from The École nationale supérieure d'électrotechnique, d'électronique, d'informatique, d'hydraulique et des télécommunications (ENSEEIHT) in France, and spent his last year in École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland to work on bio-inspired and evolutionary robotics. Alban received a master’s degree in Intelligent Systems from Sorbonne University in France, where he started working on research in artificial perception. He later completed his Ph.D. in Robotics at Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics (ISIR) at Sorbonne on a sensorimotor approach to spatial perception. Alban’s research interests are in machine learning applied to robotics as well as the emergence and development of intelligence in artificial systems.