@ Willow - Inria Paris

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I am a PhD Candidate (graduating in Spring'2025) in Computer Vision and Robotics at Inria Paris/DI ENS, working at Willow research team under the supervision of Ivan Laptev and Cordelia Schmid.

I am currently on the job market seeking research opportunities in both academia and the industry. If you'd like to chat, please don't hesitate to reach out to me.

I love learning about Computer Science topics and currently I spend my time teaching robots to perceive and act.

Interests:

Deep learning, robotics, computer vision, natural language processing

Professional Experience:

PhD Candidate
Inria Paris | 2021 - 2025
Research Engineer
Inria Grenoble | Jul 2019 - Aug 2021
Research Assistant
DLR - Munich | 2017 - 2018

Education:

PhD Computer Science
ENS-PSL | 2021 - 2025
MS Informatics - Exchange
TU München | 2016 - 2017
MEng Electrical Engineering
TU Madrid | 2015 - 2016
BE Electrical Engineering
TU Madrid | 2011 - 2015

News

June 2025

🎓 Defending my PhD thesis - I will be defending my PhD thesis with title "Learning visuomotor policies for robotic manipulation" on 4th of June 2025. More information about my thesis defense here.

May 2025

Talk at in AI & Robotics at ICRA 2025 - I presented our GemBench and 3D-LOTUS++ work at the lightning talks session of LatinX @ ICRA25. You can find the slides here.

April 2025

Talk at - I presented some of my work during a talk hosted by the PRIOR team at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. You can see the recording here.

Recent Publications

Towards Generalizable Vision-Language Robotic Manipulation: A Benchmark and LLM-guided 3D Policy

ICRA 2025

Ricardo Garcia*, Shizhe Chen*, Cordelia Schmid

sugar_paper


SUGAR: Pre-training 3D Visual Representation for Robotics

CVPR 2024

Shizhe Chen, Ricardo Garcia, Ivan Laptev, Cordelia Schmid

sugar_paper


PolarNet: 3D Point Clouds for Language-Guided Robotic Manipulation

CoRL 2023

Shizhe Chen*, Ricardo Garcia*, Cordelia Schmid, Ivan Laptev

polarnet_paper


Robust visual sim-to-real transfer for robotic manipulation

IROS 2023

Ricardo Garcia, Robin Strudel, Shizhe Chen, Etienne Arlaud, Ivan Laptev, Cordelia Schmid

robust_s2r_paper


Instruction-driven history-aware policies for robotic manipulations

CoRL 2022 - Oral

Pierre-Louis Guhur, Shizhe Chen, Ricardo Garcia, Makarand Tapaswi, Ivan Laptev, Cordelia Schmid

hiveformer_paper


Segmenter: Transformer for Semantic Segmentation

ICCV 2021

Robin Strudel*, Ricardo Garcia*, Ivan Laptev, Cordelia Schmid

segmenter_paper


Learning Obstacle Representations for Neural Motion Planning

CoRL 2020

Robin Strudel, Ricardo Garcia, Justin Carpentier, Jean-Paul Laumond, Ivan Laptev, Cordelia Schmid

nmp_repr_paper


DeepIG: Multi-Robot Information Gathering with Deep Reinforcement Learning

IEEE RA-L 2019

Alberto Viseras*, Ricardo Garcia*

deepig_paper

*Equal Contribution

Teaching

Object Recognition and Computer Vision 2022-2024, Teacher Assistant - Master level (MVA) - 50 hours - ENS Paris-Saclay

Object Recognition and Computer Vision 2021, Project Advisor - Master level (MVA) - ENS Paris-Saclay

Services

Conference Reviewer

ICCV 2025, CVPR 2025, ICRA 2025, ACCV 2024, CoRL 2024, ECCV 2024, CVPR 2024, ICCV 2023, IROS 2023, CVPR 2023

Journal Reviewer

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)

Others

Co-chair - Learning for Manipulation I oral session @ IROS 2023

Organizer - Generalization in Robotics Manipulation Workshop and Challenges @ CVPR 2025