"The fact is that my brain goes out to play. That’s what creativity is — intelligence having fun. Imagination is more important than Knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand." (A. Einstein)

Short bio

Since october 2017, I am a research engineer at Télécom Paris, a first class Computer Science school of Institut Polytechnique de Paris. I am a member of Prof. Tamy Boubekeur's Computer Graphics group, which covers the core aspects of 3D Computer Graphics (Geometry, Animation and Rendering).

My research themes cover several Visual Computing areas: computer animation, computational geometry, image synthesis, 3D user interfaces. I am mainly targeting applications in creative industries, and incorporating intelligence wherever useful. I have addressed problems related to automating / assisting control and animation tasks within the 3D animation pipeline (staging, shooting, lighting, film editing) for virtual worlds or the real world (e.g. aerial cinematography). More broadly, I like exploring problems linked to 3D contents (creation, exploration, manipulation) and to the provision of smart creativity support tools.

I currently take part to the Allegorithmic Research lab, joining forces of the CG Group of Télécom Paris and Allegorithmic (world leader in 3D texturing, recently incorporated to the Adobe 3D & Immersion division), in which context I am focusing on rendering and interactive lighting design problems.

My wayfinding...

I obtained the PhD in Computer Science at University of Rennes (France) in 2013; my thesis has focused on efficient virtual camera control and on film editing (see Publications tab). Between 2013 and 2017, I have been working as an Assistant Professor (ATER) at University of Rennes, and three years as a postdoctoral fellow at Inria Grenoble (in Marie-Paule Cani's 3D animation team) and Inria Rennes (in Marc Christie's Virtual Cinematography group). In 2017, while at Inria, I started exploring a new topic -- the control of virtual light sources (aka inverse-rendering) --. In october 2017, I joined Telecom Paris and Tamy Boubekeur to carry on this research direction, together with image synthesis problems.

Before my PhD studies, I have also been a R&D engineer during 8 months on the FP7 Network of Excellence IRIS (Integrating Research in Interactive Storytelling), between Newcastle University (UK) and Inria Rennes (France).