Summary
Yoann Fleytoux is a Robotic & AI Engineer with 11 years of experience combining a PhD in learning human preferences for robotic grasping with hands-on development of perception and manipulation systems. He has advanced dexterous manipulation at startups and research labs, shipping imitation learning, reinforcement learning and visuolanguage-action (VLA) pipelines for industrial and lab robots. Comfortable bridging academia and industry, he has integrated tactile sensing and human-guided strategies into practical benchmarks and deployable software stacks. Based in Nantes, France, he taught algorithms and optimization early in his career and repeatedly translates cross-disciplinary research into production-ready robotic solutions. An uncommon strength is his focus on human preferences and fragile-object handling, which guides his work toward safer, more adaptable grasping in real-world settings.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Learning Human Preferences for Robotic Grasping, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Learning Human Preferences for Robotic Grasping at Universite de Lorraine
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III
Master's degree Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering, Master's degree Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering at Université de Toulouse - UPSSITECH école d'ingénieurs
Master's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Universidade de Coimbra
english (toeic 990), French, Spanish