Maxence Faldor

I am interested in
  🧠 Artificial Intelligence
  ✨ Open-endedness
  🦾 Robotics
  🦎 Artificial Life
with a particular focus on learning to adapt to unforeseen situations in open-ended environments.

I am dedicated to breaking new ground in enabling robots to not just perform a task, but to acquire a breadth of general capabilities, mirroring the evolutionary adaptability found in nature. I also have interests in Metamathematics, Neuroscience and Consciousness.

Alongside my PhD studies, I teach both undergraduate and postgraduate students, Deep Learning, Mathematical Methods Tutorials and Python Programming, totaling 300 hours/year. My responsibilities include lecturing, conducting tutorials and workshops, developing and grading coursework, and managing modules.

I am also an organizer of the Imperial College Autonomous Reasoning & Learning (ICARL) seminar series

Each month, ICARL hosts a seminar series at Imperial College London, where we invite Artificial Intelligence researchers to give a presentation about their work.
I am responsible for the setup of the lecture theatre and technical equipment (microphones, video cameras, online meeting and so on) to ensure high-quality recordings for our YouTube channel.

Selected Publications

Skill-Conditioned Policy Optimization with Successor Features Representations

Maxence* Faldor, Luca* Grillotti, León Borja, and 1 more author

In ALOE workshop at NeurIPS, 2023

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{scopa,
  title = {Skill-Conditioned Policy Optimization with Successor Features Representations},
  author = {Faldor, Maxence* and Grillotti, Luca* and Borja, León and Cully, Antoine},
  year = {2023},
  booktitle = {ALOE workshop at NeurIPS},
}

Synergizing Quality-Diversity with Descriptor-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning

Maxence Faldor, Félix Chalumeau, Manon Flageat, and 1 more author

In , 2023

Bib PDF

@inproceedings{dcg_me_telo,
  title = {Synergizing Quality-Diversity with Descriptor-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning},
  author = {Faldor, Maxence and Chalumeau, F\'{e}lix and Flageat, Manon and Cully, Antoine},
  year = {2023},
}