The Robotics and Embodied AI Lab and Mila hosted the Fall 2025 edition of the Mila Robot Learning Seminar; a set of virtual talks by researchers in this field. We had an exciting lineup of speakers for this edition of the seminar series!

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
Long-Horizon Mobile Manipulation in the Wild
6 November 2025
11:00 hrs EDT

Eugene Vinitsky
Assistant Professor
NYU
Robust Autonomy Emerges from Self-Play
13 November 2025
11:00 hrs EDT

Steven Waslander
Full Professor
University of Toronto
Open World Navigation and Memory for Agentic Robots
20 November 2025
11:00 hrs EDT

Oier Mees
Researcher
Microsoft
Embodied Multimodal Intelligence with Foundation Models
27 November 2025
11:00 hrs EDT

Shivam Vats
Postdoctoral Research
Brown University
Resource-Rational Robot Intelligence
4 December 2025
11:00 hrs EDT

Javier Civera
Full Professor
Universidad de Zaragoza
Visual Localization and Mapping as the 3D Geometric Grounding of Foundation Model Representations
11 December 2025
11:00 hrs EDT

Josiah Hanna
Assistant Professor
University of Wisconsin -- Madison
Safe and Deployable Reinforcement Learning for Reason and Action
18 December 2025
11:00 hrs EDT