Xavier Puig

Xavier Puig is a Research Scientist at FAIR, focusing on Embodied AI and human-centered intelligent systems. Previously, he earned his Ph.D. from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), advised by Professor Antonio Torralba. He also holds a double degree in Computer Science and Telecommunications from UPC's CFIS program.

• Education
  • Ph.D., MIT (CSAIL), 2022
  • B.S./B.S., UPC (CFIS program), 2016

Research Interests span building agents that collaborate with humans through goal anticipation, task coordination, and realistic behavior modeling in simulation environments. His work integrates Embodied AI, Multi-agent Systems, and 3D Scene Understanding with applications in Human-Robot Collaboration and Interactive Decision-Making.

Recent Trends in his publications emphasize Planning in Multi-agent Environments, Language-guided Robotics, Procedural Scene Generation, and Human Foundation Models for embodied tasks.

Scientific Awards

• Best Paper Award, NeurIPS Cooperative AI Workshop (2020)
• Spotlight Presentation, ICLR (2021)