Scholar
Francesco Capuano
Google Scholar ID: E6WpTrUAAAAJ
ENS Paris Saclay
Citations & Impact
Citations
33
H-index
2
i10-index
1
Publications
7
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume
Academic Achievements
- Co-authored 'Robot Learning: A Tutorial', accepted at NeurIPS 2025 (corresponding author)
- Opinion paper 'Small VLAs Self-Learn Consistency' accepted at NeurIPS 2025 Embodied World Models Workshop
- Co-developed SmolVLA: a sub-500M VLA trained solely on open data
- Paper on 'RL for High-Power Lasers control' accepted to main track of RLC'25
- Paper on 'RL for Laser Systems' accepted at SPIE 2023; awarded Best Student Paper
- First paper published in JaCoW 2022 proceedings
Research Experience
- Since April 2025: Researcher at Hugging Face's robotics team, working with Remi Cadene on LeRobot
- Since January 2025: Part-time researcher at Mistral AI, collaborating with Sophia Yang on open-source AI
- April 2024–early 2025: Worked at Alan with CTO Charles Gorintin
- May 2023–April 2024: ML Engineer in Bain & Company’s startup incubator
- July 2022–2023: ML team at ELI Beamlines (Czechia), working on ML for Laser-Wakefield Acceleration