Etienne Chassaing

Etienne Chassaing

Robotics Engineer, Robotics and Control Engineering Teacher
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Experience

  1. Sep 2026 – PresentFrance

    🤗🤖 ML Engineer in Robotics

    • Deploying LeRobot on real hardware, specifically humanoids.
    • Working on the Hugging Face robotics course.
  2. Jan 2026 – PresentFrance

    Adjunct Lecturer

    CentraleSupélec, ECE Paris & AlbertSchool
    • CentraleSupélec: “Reinforcement Learning”, “Robotics Systems, from Motion to Embodied AI”, robotics projects.
    • ECE Paris: “Sampled Control Systems”, autonomous vehicle project.
    • AlbertSchool: “Mathematics Foundations”.
  3. Feb 2024 – Aug 2026France

    Independent Consultant in Applied AI and Systems Control

    • Supporting companies (startups and industrial players) on projects involving dynamic-systems modeling, control, and artificial intelligence: filtering, Reinforcement Learning, computer vision, MPC.
  4. Feb 2024 – Aug 2024Lausanne, Switzerland

    Master-Thesis intern on Physics-Informed Deep-Learning

    Schindler Lab
    • Develop a cross-modality model to generate thermal models of buildings.
    • Integrate physics priors to obtain a model consistent with heat transfer laws.
  5. Mar 2022 – Jul 2022Le Plessis Robinson, France

    Deep-Reinforcement-Learning intern

    Airbus Group
    • Developed multi-UAVs control strategies using Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL).
    • Designed a novel dedicated control structure based on existing state of the art.
  6. Jan 2020 – Jul 2024

    Oral Examiner, Tutor and Teaching Assistant

    Marcelin Berthelot Preparatory Class, Gustave Eiffel University, EPFL
    • Organized weekly graded tutorial classes to prepare students’ oral exams for Grandes écoles (“Colleur”).
    • Taught statistics, probabilities, and basic Data-Science to a master student.
    • Teaching Assistant at EPFL for “Legged Robots” (Master) and “Foundations of Artificial Intelligence” (Bachelor).
  7. Jan 2020 – Jul 2024

    Consultant

    Junior CentraleSupélec
    • Helped startups design their robotics projects and advised on design and control aspects.
    • Developed an autonomous camera system to monitor bacteria in micro cavities for Doctors Without Borders.
  8. Sep 2019 – Jul 2021

    University Project “Cubesat”

    Sponsored by Thales Alenia Space
    • Designed a unique TestBed for ADCS (Attitude) control algorithms, now used as a tutorial workbench to predict Cubesat attitude-behavior in space.
    • The project was defended to CNES and Thales Alenia Space.

Education

  1. Sep 2022 – Jul 2024

    Master’s in Robotics (Double Degree with CentraleSupélec)

    EPFL, Lausanne

    GPA: 5.76/6.0, A+

    Semester Projects:

    • Optimal control of a new UAV drone based on ROS (See publication below)
    • Design and control of a robotics platform for biology tasks in labs
    Courses
    • Control
    • Robotics Design
    • Machine Learning
    • Model Predictive Control
    • Mobile Robotics
    • Data Analysis
  2. Sep 2017 – Aug 2023

    Diplôme d’ingénieur and MS in Control Engineering

    CentraleSupélec, University Paris-Saclay

    GPA: 4.05/4.33, A+

    Preparatory classes:

    • MPSI-PSI* at Collège Stanislas
    Courses
    • Robotics
    • Control Engineering
    • Theoretical and Applied Mathematics
    • Mechanical Engineering
    • Electrical Engineering
    • Fluid Mechanics
    • Heat Transfer
    • Swarm Robotics Control
  3. Sep 2021 – Feb 2022

    Visiting Student Researcher

    Stanford University

    Conducted research at Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab, supervised by Prof J. Kenneth Salisbury.

    • Started a Human Robot Interaction project aimed at natural handovers from robots to humans.
    • Investigated how to detect secure grasps by measuring the stiffness of the recipient’s grasp. See publication below.

Skills & Hobbies

Mechatronics

Mechanics and CAD
Fusion360, SolidWorks, 3D printing (designed and built printers)
Electronics and embedded
C/C++, Arduino, sensors and IoT networks
Control
PID, state feedback, MPC, Kalman filtering, sampled systems
Robotics and AI
ROS, MuJoCo, LeRobot, Reinforcement Learning, PyTorch
Modelling and optimisation
Physical modelling, linear and quadratic optimisation
Python and data
NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, OpenCV

Sports

🧗🏻‍♂️ Climbing
Crags and multi-pitch routes
My climbs on Cragdiary →
🏔️ Hiking and trekking
GR 20, GR70 and self-supported treks

Awards

DRIEETS · Oct 2024

Certified Independent Consultant: Innovation Tax Credit (CII)

Certification valid from October 2024 to October 2028.
USPTO · Jan 2022

Patent: Systems and Methods for Tactile Gesture Interpretation

Patent on tactile gesture interpretation for human grasp detection, resulting from research conducted at Stanford University.
Stanford-France Center · Jul 2021

Stanford-France Fellowship

Laureate of the Stanford-France Center fellowship to conduct a 6-month research project at Stanford University. The fellowship was associated with Stanford University.
IEEExCentraleSupélec · May 2021

IEEExCentraleSupélec Innovation Challenge - 3rd Prize

Finalist in the IEEExCentraleSupélec Innovation Challenge, awarded 3rd prize. The project was associated with CS³ - Centre Spatial de CentraleSupélec for CubeSats.

Languages

French
English
German