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Name Takieddine Soualhi
Label Research Engineer in AI & Robotics
Email takieddine.soualhi@inria.fr
Url https://takieddinesoualhi.github.io
Summary Postdoctoral research engineer in AI and Robotics at Inria Lyon (CHROMA team), working on multi-agent reinforcement learning for human-robot coordination.

Work

  • 2025.04 - Present
    Research Engineer
    INRIA, CHROMA Team
    Introducing novel MARL methods for human-agent coordination.
    • Introducing novel MARL methods for human-agent coordination.
    • Conducting large scale simulations and deploying trained models for industrial partner (Enchanted Tools).
    • Integration of the ROS2 navigation stack into the partner's humanoid robot.
  • 2022.02 - 2024.02
    Teaching Assistant
    University of Burgundy and Franche-Comté
    Teaching courses in computer science and robotics.
    • Courses: C Programming, Operating Systems, Web Applications, Robotics.
    • Supervision of students semester projects.
  • 2021.11 - 2025.02
    Research Engineer / Ph.D. candidate
    CIAD lab
    PhD research on deep reinforcement learning for mobile robot visuomotor control.
    • Conduct literature review, identify literature, and set scientific goals.
    • Build custom RL training environments and training robots.
    • Propose novel RL and MARL algorithms for training single and multi-robot systems on vision-based control tasks.
    • Deploy the trained models on real robots.
    • Publish results in top-tier robotics journals.
  • 2021.04 - 2021.06
    Research Engineer
    LoopAI
    Research on facial expression recognition.
    • Literature review on facial expression recognition.
    • Evaluation of CNN and GAN-based models on the FER dataset for facial expression recognition.
  • 2021.03 - 2021.09
    Machine Learning Engineer
    LINEACT lab
    Machine learning for human-robot interaction datasets.
    • Preprocessing and cleaning the InHard multimodal human-robot interaction dataset.
    • Collecting and building a custom dataset using MoCap data in VR.
    • Proposing, implementing, and evaluating deep learning models for both the InHARD dataset and the newly collected dataset.
    • Shipping code along with documentation.
  • 2019.10 - 2020.02
    Research Assistant
    Sorbonne University / ISIR lab
    Research on autonomous driving simulation and deep learning.
    • Building a simulation scene and its corresponding real scene for autonomous driving.
    • Fine-tuning deep learning models for scene understanding.
    • Implementing control and planning algorithms.
    • Shipping code along with demo of the platform.
  • 2015.11 - 2017.09
    Mentor
    AEPI NewVision
    Mentoring students in DIY robotics and electronics projects.
    • Building DIY projects, including robots, electronic boards, IoT templates.
    • Mentoring students and supervising DIY projects.
    • Presenting projects and participating in conferences.

Education

  • 2021.11 - 2024.12

    Belfort, France

    Ph.D.
    University of Burgundy and Franche-Comté
    Computer Science
    • Dissertation: Deep reinforcement learning based visuomotor policies for mobile robots in single and multi-agent configurations.
    • Keywords: Reinforcement learning, Deep learning, Robotics, Computer vision, Multi-agent systems.
    • Supervisors: Prof. Yassine Ruichek, Prof. Stéphane Galland.
  • 2018.09 - 2021.09

    Paris, France

    M.Sc.
    Sorbonne University
    Intelligent Systems and Robotics
    • Keywords: Robotics, Audio processing, Computer vision, Machine learning, HCI.

Awards

Skills

Reinforcement Learning
Dynamic programming
Value based RL
Policy gradients
Actor-critic methods
DQN, PPO, SAC, Rainbow, R2D2, Agent57
Behaviour cloning, DAgger, RLHF, IRL, GAIL
Deep Learning
MLPs, CNNs, RNNs, Attention models, Transformers
Dropout, L1 and L2, Data augmentation, Batch normalization
VLMs, LLMs, VLAs (Pi0, SmolVLA, RT-x)
Robotics
State Estimation, SLAM
Visual servoing, Path planning, Robot modelling
Gazebo, Pybullet, Habitat-sim, Gibson, Isaac-sim
ROS1/2
Turtlebot3, Robotnik Summit-XL

Languages

Arabic
Native speaker
French
Fluent
English
Fluent

Interests

Research Interests
Reinforcement Learning
Multi-Agent Systems
Robotics
Computer Vision
Human-Robot Interaction