Quentin Herau

I’m a Research Engineer at Applied Intuition in Sunnyvale, California, developing neural simulation for autonomous driving and robotics. My research spans 3D reconstruction, neural rendering and world models, including appearance transfer and scene modeling across repeated traversals.

I build scene representations for closed-loop training and evaluation of driving models, simulation-ready robotics assets, and world action model pretraining. I also mentor PhD research interns.

I completed an industrial PhD at Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab with ICB (CNRS / Université Bourgogne Europe) in 2025, working on targetless sensor calibration with dense differentiable rendering. Before that, I earned a diplôme d’ingénieur from ENSEEIHT in Toulouse and a research master’s degree, spent an exchange semester at National Taiwan University, and worked on active learning at IPAL (NUS / CNRS) in Singapore.