David Filliat is a professor in the Computer Science and Systems Engineering Unit (U2IS) at ENSTA Paris and a member of the INRIA/ENSTA Paris FLOWERS team on developmental robotics. He is also Scientific Director of the Centre Interdisciplinaire d'Etudes pour la Défense et la Sécurité (CIEDS) at IP Paris. His research focuses on robotics, with a particular emphasis on perception and learning. His aim is to develop methods for simplifying the use of robots, making them more robust and increasing their autonomy. He is particularly interested in navigation, mapping, planning, learning applied to multi-modal perception and reinforcement learning, and applications to mobile robots, drones and autonomous vehicles.