Francisco Roldan Sanchez

Postdoctoral Researcher at Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris | Safe RL and Autonomous Systems

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I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at Télécom Paris (Institut Polytechnique de Paris), where I work on safe reinforcement learning for autonomous systems. I completed my PhD at Dublin City University, where my research focused on sample efficiency for reinforcement learning in robotic manipulation tasks.

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Jun 15, 2026 Joined Télécom Paris (Institut Polytechnique de Paris) as a postdoctoral researcher, working on safe reinforcement learning
Mar 01, 2025 Completed my PhD at Dublin City University (Insight Centre for Data Analytics), with a thesis on sample-efficient strategies for off-policy reinforcement learning in robotic manipulation tasks.
Oct 14, 2022 Won the Real Robot Challenge, organized by the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems.

selected publications

  1. WAV2PIX: Speech-conditioned Face Generation using Generative Adversarial Networks.
    Amanda Cardoso Duarte, Francisco Roldan, Miquel Tubau, and 7 more authors
    In ICASSP, 2019
  2. Improving behavioural cloning with positive unlabeled learning
    Qiang Wang, Robert McCarthy, David Cordova Bulens, and 6 more authors
    In Conference on robot learning, 2023
  3. Learning and reusing primitive behaviours to improve Hindsight Experience Replay sample efficiency
    Francisco Roldan Sanchez, Qiang Wang, David Cordova Bulens, and 3 more authors
    In 2024 10th International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Applications (ICARA), Athens, Greece,, 2024
  4. Sample and time efficient strategies for off-policy reinforcement learning in robotic manipulation tasks
    Francisco Roldan Sanchez
    2025