Marcel Torne Villasevil

I am a Researcher at the Improbable AI Lab (MIT CSAIL) under the supervision of Professor Pulkit Agrawal and closely collaborating with Professor Abhishek Gupta at the University of Washington (WEIRD Lab). 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.

NEWS: I will be applying for PhD positions for the Fall 2024 admit!

I received my Master of Engineering degree from Harvard University, where I did my Thesis in Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback applied to Robotics supervised by Professors Pulkit Agrawal and Abhishek Gupta. I was fortunate enough to be supported by the Real Colegio Complutense scholarship. 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 Professor Martin Jaggi and Professor 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. I've been an intern at Microsoft (Bing) and Amazon (Search) working in ranking algorithms.

In industry, I have worked at Microsoft Bing and Amazon Search working on the ranking algorithms of both organizations.

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