Elie Aljalbout

I am a robotics researcher at Meta FAIR working on latent action modeling and world models for robotic manipulation. Prior to joining Meta, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Robotics and Perception Group in Zurich, Switzerland working on world modeling and reinforcement learning for agile robots. I completed my PhD at the Technical University of Munich and spent a couple of years as a researcher at the Volkswagen Group, ML Research Lab. My research focus is at the intersection of machine learning, robotics and computer vision. I am particularly interested in foundation models for robotics/embodied AI, general agents, robotic manipulation and robot learning in general.

Research Interests

• Large-Scale Pretraining for Robotics
• World Models
• Vision-Language-Action (VLA) Models
• Reinforcement Learning & Optimal Control
• Self-Supervised Learning