Emiliano Penaloza

Visiting Researcher

AI Frontier Research

Hey I’m Emiliano a PhD student at Mila-Quebec/Université de Montréal, working under the supervision of Laurent Charlin. Prior to Mila, I completed my MMath in Statistics at the University of Waterloo under the supervision of Nathaniel Stevens. I obtained my Bachelors in Data Science from The University of Western Ontario, where I was a member of the Banking Analytics Lab led by Cristian Bravo. Currently my research focus is on enhancing user autonomy within intelligent systems, with applications in recommender systems and language models. My free time is mostly consumed by a good book and training for my next powerlifting meet.

Publications

How to Train Your LLM Web Agent: A Statistical Diagnosis. Dheeraj Vattikonda, Santhoshi Ravichandran, Emiliano Penaloza, Hadi Nekoei, Thibault Le Sellier De Chezelles, Megh Thakkar, Nicolas Gontier, Miguel Muñoz-Mármol, Sahar Omidi Shayegan, Stefania Raimondo, Xue Steve Liu, Alexandre Drouin, Alexandre Piche, Alexandre Lacoste, Massimo Caccia. At Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025.

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How to Train Your LLM Web Agent: A Statistical Diagnosis (Oral). Dheeraj Vattikonda, Santhoshi Ravichandran, Emiliano Penaloza, Hadi Nekoei, Thibault Le Sellier De Chezelles, Megh Thakkar, Nicolas Gontier, Miguel Muñoz-Mármol, Sahar Omidi Shayegan, Stefania Raimondo, Xue Steve Liu, Alexandre Drouin, Alexandre Piche, Alexandre Lacoste, Massimo Caccia. At Workshop at the International Conference of Machine Learning (ICML), 2025.

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