Edouard Leurent
PhD Student in Reinforcement Learning
Inria Sequel Team
Inria Non-A Team
Renault Group
I am a PhD student (CIFRE) at Inria Lille, under the supervision of Philippe Preux, Odalric-Ambrym Maillard, Wilfrid Perruquetti, Denis Efimov and Yann Blanco.
My research focuses on applying Safe Reinforcement Learning to Behavioural Planning in Autonomous Driving.
In other words, I address the problem of how to take high-level driving decisions (e.g. lane changes) - in the presence of uncertainty (e.g. in the behaviour of other traffic participants).
Driving is a social game: interactions between drivers introduce a coupling between the decisions of the ego-vehicle and the dynamics of the nearby traffic. They are difficult to model manually and justify the need to learn from data. But to deploy a learning-based system in such a critical setting, a notion of risk must be considered explicitly and controlled.
Before starting my PhD, I gratuated from MINES ParisTech and worked for three years as a Flight Control Engineer at Parrot.
Interests
- Optimal Control
- Statistical Learning
- Robotics
