The Robotics and Embodied AI Lab and Mila are hosting the Fall 2025 edition of the Mila Robot Learning Seminar; a set of virtual talks by researchers in this field. Seminars usually take place at 11:00 Eastern time on Thursdays and are streamed on our YouTube channel.

We have an exciting lineup of speakers for this newest edition of the seminar series! Follow us on Twitter for more.

Speaker

Talk title

Date/Time

YouTube link

Jiafei Duan
PhD Student
University of Washington
Graduate Student Researcher
Allen Institute for AI (AI2)
Towards Robotics Foundation Models that can Reason
9 October 2025
11:00 hrs EDT

Sherry Yang
Assistant professor
NYU | Courant
Staff Research Scientist
Google Deepmind
Learning World Models and Physical Agents
15 October 2025
12:30 hrs EDT

Jiayuan Mao
Assistant Professor
University of Pennsylvania
Research Scientist
Amazon Frontier AI & Robotics
Learning, Reasoning, and Planning with Neuro-Symbolic Concepts
16 October 2025
11:00 hrs EDT

Carmelo (Carlo) Sferrazza
Assistant Professor
UT Austin
Humanoid Robot Learning
23 October 2025
11:00 hrs EDT

Abhinav Valada
Full Professor
University of Freiburg
TBD
6 November 2025
11:00 hrs EDT

Eugene Vinitsky
Assistant Professor
NYU
TBD
13 November 2025
11:00 hrs EDT

Steven Waslander
Full Professor
University of Toronto
TBD
20 November 2025
11:00 hrs EDT

Oier Mees
Researcher
Microsoft
TBD
27 November 2025
11:00 hrs EDT

Shivam Vats
Postdoctoral Research
Brown University
TBD
4 December 2025
11:00 hrs EDT

Javier Civera
Full Professor
Universidad de Zaragoza
TBD
11 December 2025
11:00 hrs EDT

Josiah Hanna
Assistant Professor
University of Wisconsin -- Madison
TBD
18 December 2025
11:00 hrs EDT