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Some words about me

I'm a professor at the Software & IT engineering department of École de Technologie Supérieure (ETS). Most of my teaching is in the software engineering and IT engineering programs and my research is done in the Computer Graphics discipline.

I'm also Chair of the Montreal ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter.

My M.Sc. thesis was done under the supervision of Pierre Poulin and George Drettrakis, while my Ph.D. thesis was done under the supervision of Pierre Poulin, George Drettrakis, and Claude Puech.

publications

master's thesis (in french)

doctor's thesis (in french)

Research interests

My research interest are in the areas of realistic image synthesis, aging of objects, use of graphics hardware, and 2D computer Graphics applications.

Teaching

• LOG750 : Infographie (Computer Graphics)
  Transformations, projections, color, rendering, OpenGL
• GTI410 : Applications des techniques numériques en graphisme et imagerie (Image Processing and 2D Computer Graphics techniques)
  2D image representations, Vector Graphics, Raster Graphics, Color
• GTI420 : Infographie avancée (Advanced Computer Graphics)
  3D modeling, visualisation, projections, animation, rendering, global illumination, Graphics API, 3D modeler

Computer Graphics ressources

• Important discoveries
• Researchers
• Research labs
• Companies in the Montreal area
• Conferences
• Journals

Tools

I frequently use the following tools: Java, C++, UML (Rational Rose), OpenGL, Qt, Maya, LaTeX2e, XEmacs, emacs-lisp, HTML, PalmOS, Linux, scripts tcsh, awk.