Bertrand Douillard  

 



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 Bertrand has focused on AI for robotics since his Ph.D. in the field. He brings experience from engineering and research roles at JPL, Zoox, Toyota Research Institute, and Waymo. His hands-on work has spanned the full range of robotics systems, from classical to end-to-end learned stacks, including perception, planning, controls, and the offline ML pipelines that support them. As part of his transition to NVIDIA Research, his current focus is on end-to-end autonomous vehicle models built on Recurrent State Space Models (RSSMs) and refined with Reinforcement Fine Tuning.

List of publications and CV: [link](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pt-ScqjoBpRXlxrdSJLWTuulO7gFQoYA5m8Ez5xi_D8/edit?usp=sharing).



   Research Area(s)

[Autonomous Vehicles](/research-area/autonomous-vehicles)

[Robotics](/research-area/robotics)

 

 

  

 Main Field of Interest

[Autonomous Vehicles](/research-area/autonomous-vehicles)

 

  

 

 

 



 ### Publications

 

### 2025 

[Beyond Behavior Cloning in Autonomous Driving: a Survey of Closed-Loop Training Techniques](/index.php/publication/2025-12_beyond-behavior-cloning-autonomous-driving-survey-closed-loop-training)

[Peter Karkus](/index.php/person/peter-karkus), [Maximilian Igl](/index.php/person/maximilian-igl), [Yuxiao Chen](/index.php/person/yuxiao-chen), Kashyap Chitta, Jef Packer, [Bertrand Douillard](/index.php/person/bertrand-douillard), [Thomas Tian](/index.php/person/thomas-tian), Alexander Naumann, Guillermo Garcia-Cobo, Shuhan Tan, [Alperen Degirmenci](/index.php/person/alperen-degirmenci), Alexander Popov, Nikolai Smolyanskiy, Urs Muller, [Boris Ivanovic](/index.php/person/boris-ivanovic), [Marco Pavone](/index.php/person/marco-pavone)