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Justin Carpentier is a robotics researcher at Inria, leading the Willow research group since August 2023, attached to the Computer Science department at Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay. He holds an ERC Starting Grant for his project ARTIFACT (2025), focusing on artificial motion factories. His research spans Perception, Machine Learning, Optimization, and Control for Robotics. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Gepetto and Willow groups, completing his PhD on computational foundations of anthropomorphic locomotion at Gepetto (2014–2017). He earned a degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from ENS Paris-Saclay (2013) and conducted a visiting studies at Heidelberg University (2014).
His work emphasizes optimization techniques, robotics control, and simulation. Notable contributions include the ProxQP solver, differential simulation frameworks, and collaborative research with figures like Francis Bach and Jean Ponce. He advises multiple PhD students, co-supervises projects, and leads the Inria Robotics Lab with peers like Pierre-Guillaume Raverdy. His software contributions include Pinocchio and Crocoddyl, widely used in robotics research.
Recent articles (2024–2025) explore proximal optimization, real-time robotics algorithms, and physical constraints in robotics perception. He actively mentors engineers and postdocs, fostering open-source software development. His ERC grant project aims to advance motion generation for robots through interdisciplinary methods.
