Jason Chemin

Research & Project Lead at Capgemini Engineering
jason.chemin@capgemini.com

Hi, I am Jason and my research mainly focuses on Reinforcement Learning applied to Control and Navigation of simulated characters, legged or wheeled robots and vehicles.

Experience

Research Engineer & Project Lead

Capgemini Engineering , Paris (Meudon), France

Project lead in charge of a research project on autonomous vehicles. The goal is to build (hardware) and implement (software) a fully autonomous electric vehicle. I do research and managing 10-20 people on this project.

December 2024 - Now

Research Engineer

CEA , Paris-Saclay, France

Autonomous navigation of vehicles and wheeled robots using Reinforcement and Federated Learning for the OTPaaS project. In this project, I investigated RL methods for path tracking.

December 2022 - December 2024

Engineer

LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France

Development of a C++ library for Humanoid Path Planner software.

March - August 2019

Internship

Mahidol University, Mahidol, Thailand

Development of a C++ software for MRI visualization with Leap motion for control.

June - December 2016

Education

LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France

PhD - robotics/machine learning
Thesis on contact planning for humanoid locomotion in the MEMMO project.
I worked on a RL steering method with terrain-aware navigation skills, generating a legged robot root trajectory prior to a contact planning phase.
2019 - 2022

Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

MSc - Computer Science
Double MSc degree with the engineering school "INSA Toulouse".
I worked in the Movement Research Lab under the supervision of Pr. Jehee Lee, on machine learning for character animation.
Master Thesis: "A physics-based Juggling Simulation using Reinforcement Learning".
2017 - 2019


Ecole de technologie supérieure (ETS), Montréal, Canada

6 months exchange
C++, Java, Computer graphics (openGl) and image processing.
2014


National Institute Of Applied Sciences (INSA), Toulouse, France

Engineering degree (BSc + MSc)
Double MSc degree with the Seoul National University.
BSc: General & Computer science
MSc: Informatics & Telecommunications Network
2012 - 2019

Publications

Autonomous Forklift Navigation Inside a Cluttered Logistics Factory

ICINCO 2024 (Porto)

Eric Lucet, Antoine Lucazeau, Jason Chemin


Paper

Does Path Tracking Benefit from Sequential or Simultaneous RL Speed Controls?

ICINCO 2024 (Porto)

Jason Chemin, Eric Lucet, Aurélien Mayoue


Paper

A Study of Reinforcement Learning Techniques for Path Tracking in Autonomous Vehicles

IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV) 2024

Jason Chemin, Ashley Hill, Eric Lucet, Aurélien Mayoue


Paper

LEAS: "Learning to steer a locomotion contact planner"

ICRA 2021

Jason Chemin, Pierre Fernbach, Daeun Song, Guilhem Saurel, Nicolas Mansard, Steve Tonneau


Paper
Video

A physics-based juggling simulation using reinforcement learning

ACM-MIG 2018

Jason Chemin, Jehee Lee


Paper
Video
Video(3D)

Projects

Robots-RL: an environment with pyBullet to learn a whole-body controller for Talos and Solo robots.


Github Link

MRI visualization with LEAP motion.

Project with Dr. Moores at Mahidol University.

Other projects.


ETS - Infographics: Modelisation of the solar system with OpenGL (c++).
SNU - Infographics: Modelisation of a 3D scene (focus on shaders, textures and lights).
INSA - Development of a chat system in java (UDP/TCP protocol).
Manufacturing of a Led Matrix 21x21 and integration of a rendering code with Arduino.
Github Link

Skills

Programming Languages

Python
C/C++
Java
ADA
Web(HTML,CSS,MySQL)

Experience in using

OpenGL
Tensorflow
PyBullet
HPP software
Gurobi (MIP/LP)

Other formations

Embedded systems(Real-time, Android, Arduino, PicBasic)
Networks(CISCO courses followed but not validated)
Telecommunications(theory on signal processing and mobile network)

Interests

Apart from my work, I am a real foodie. You may have spotted me in action at conference buffet !
I travelled a lot during my studies and I really enjoy discovering new cultures.
I lived 6 months in Canada, 8 months in Thailand, 2 years in South Korea and 3 Months in Scotland.