I am an Associate professor of Software and IT Engineering at the École de technologie supérieure and an Adjunct professor of Computer Science at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Currently, I am currently on sabbatical leave and I am a visiting researcher at Roblox Research.
My research interests include real-time physics simulation, 3D character animation, motion capture, simulation of articulated mechanisms, computational contact mechanics, and measurement based modelling for virtual environments.
A complete list of my publications, posters, talks, and demos is available here.
NEW! I am recruiting PhD and Master’s students for projects on physics-based animation, 3D characters, and contact simulation. Please see the list of available projects.
Professional Activities
Program Chair
- MIG 2024
- GI 2022
- I3D 2020
- VRIPHYS 2018
Conference Chair
Posters Chair
Steering Committee
- I3D 2019-2022
- VRIPHYS 2018-2019
Program Committee
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2023
- SIGGRAPH 2021
- SIGGRAPH Unified Jury 2019, 2022
- SCA 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
- MIG 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022
- VRIPHYS 2018
- IEEE AIVR 2018
Tertiary Reviewer (selected)
- SIGGRAPH 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2013, 2015, 2017, 2020, 2021, 2023
- Eurographics 2012, 2016, 2017
- IEEE/RSJ IROS 2018-2020
- Computer Graphics Forum (CGF)
- Computers & Graphics
- Graphics Interface (GI)
- IEEE Transactions on Computer Graphics (TVCG)
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
- IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CGA)
Other Committees
- Secretary, Montreal SIGGRAPH Chapter 2018-2021
Previous and Current Students
Current Students
- Quoc-Minh Ton-That, PhD (co-supervised with Paul Kry)
- Andreas Enzenhoefer, PhD (McGill, with Paul Kry)
- Loic Nassif, PhD (McGill,with Paul Kry)
- Yinchu Liu, PhD (with Kenny Erleben)
- Pranav Agarwal, PhD (with Samira Ebrahimi Kahou)
- Hossein Feizollah Zadeh Khoiee, PhD (with David Labbé)
- Yosr Takouti, MASc (with David Labbé)
- Joël Pelletier-Guénette, MASc
- Yunhao Luo, MSc (McGill, with Paul Kry)
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- Alex Minh Hoang-Cao, MEng
Previous Graduate Students
- Omar Zoubir, MEng
- Juliette Seminaro, MASc (with David Labbé)
- Benjamin Boineau, MEng (with Adrien Gruson)
- Anthony Frezzato, MASc
- Yinchu Liu, MASc
- Henry Ho, MSc (McGill, with Paul Kry)
- Abdesselam Guerroudj, MASc
- Marwen Kraiem, MASc - went to DNEG
- Nicolas Lefebvre, MASc - went to CM Labs Simulations
- Nabil Boukadida, MASc (co-supervised with Eric Paquette) - went to AMD
Previous Undergraduate and Interns
- Joël Pelletier-Guénette, BEng research intern
- Arsh Tangri, Undergraduate MITACS Globalinks (intern)
- Syrine Enneifer, McGill University (intern)
- Lanxuan Zhou, Undergraduate MITACS Globalinks (intern)
- Dmitri Kolytchev, BEng (intern) - founded Hekaton Studio
Prospective Students
I am currently looking for Ph.D. and Masters students who are interested in 3D character animation, real-time multibody dynamics, and computational contact mechanics. Please see the list of available projects.