Martin Sedlacek
ELLIS PhD in robotics and vision at CIIRC CTU in Prague
CIIRC CTU, B-642
Jugoslávských partyzánů 1580/3, 160 00
Prague, Czech Republic
I'm a first year student in the ELLIS PhD programme co-advised by Josef Sivic (CIIRC) and Cordelia Schmid (INRIA Paris) working on robot learning and computer vision. I currently focus on generalization capabilities of VLAs - see our recent (not yet published) benchmarking work - REALM.
Previously, I completed the MSc in AI at the University of Amsterdam awarded with the "Cum Laude" distinction and received ELLIS Honours Research scholarship. I also worked as a Software Engineer at Palantir, Amazon, and Goldman Sachs for more than 4 years. While at Goldman Sachs, I was part of a degree apprenticeship, studying for a BSc in Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) with full funding, and received the EECS Final Year Prize (top 5% in the EECS department).
News
| 01/09/2025 | Started as an ELLIS PhD at CIIRC in Prague working with Josef, Vladimir, and Cordelia. |
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| 15/06/2025 | Graduated Cum Laude with an MSc. in AI from UvA. |
| 01/09/2024 | Accepted to the ELLIS Honours Research Fellowship co-advised by Josef Sivic and Cees Snoek focusing on generalization in VLAs. |
| 17/07/2024 | Blogpost on consistency models for molecular structure prediction accepted to the GRaM Workshop at ICML 2024. |
| 28/05/2024 | Reproducibility study accepted to MLRC'23@NeurIPS and jointly published in TMLR. |