Marcel Torne Villasevil

I am a PhD student at Stanford University. My dream is to design the next generation of learning-based assistive robots. I plan to get there by studying methods for scalable data collection and rapid adaptation of policies to unseen scenarios while emphasizing human-centric approaches.

Previously, I obtained my Master's degree at Harvard University supported by the Real Colegio Complutense scholarship. And I was part of the Improbable AI Lab at MIT CSAIL under the supervision of Professors Pulkit Agrawal and Abhishek Gupta. Even before that, I received my Bachelor's degree from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where I was lucky enough to do my bachelor's project at MLO and iGH under the supervision of Professors Martin Jaggi and Mary-Anne Hartley . There I started an open source platform, DisCO, for training ML models in a federated and decentralized fashion. I showed its usefulness training Computer Vision models for Healthcare.

In industry, I have interned at Microsoft Bing and Amazon Search working on their ranking algorithms.

I spend my free time I running, sailing, and biking; playing the barroque guitar; or reading books.