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Lille, Fr

Lille, Hauts-De-France, France

• Design architecture and develop a brand new 3D engine to display digital twins in a web browser (>500K objects).• Design architecture and develop web applications around the 3D engine.• Lead a development team in an Agile environment.

Lille, Hauts-De-France, France

Project Esquisse:• Designed and developed an app with React, Typescript and Three.js to export 3D scene as Vector Graphics images• Designed and developed techniques to manipulate 3D objects and skeletons via an IK system• Developed a NPR Render engine using state-of-the-art techniques and C++ libraries with WebAssembly• Established a Continuous Integration process on a GitLab and GitHub• Contributions to open-source projects on 3D tools and algorithms

Lille, Hauts-De-France, France

PhD in Computer Science, specialized in Human Computer Interaction.Thesis topic: Study of users strategies and tools used to illustrate interaction.Project Esquisse Blender:• Developed a Blender add-on developed in Python to export 3D scenes as Vector Graphics images.• Designed and developed interaction techniques to ease the manipulation of 3D objects and augment Blender default controls.• Developed a custom NPR rendering engine using state-of-the-art techniques on top of the built-in engine Freestyle.• Integrated support of external libraries: LeapMotion to manipulate hand-based skeletons, OpenCV to export pixel-based images. • Run user experiments and published the work to a top ranked HCI conference.Project 3D Rotations:• Designed and developed a web application using Three.js and Javascript for testing various trackball techniques to rotate 3D objects.• Reproduced state-of-the-art trackball techniques to rotate 3D objects and analyse their behaviour.• Run user experiments and published the work to a local french HCI conference.

Lille, Hauts-De-France, France

• Course 1: Object Oriented Programming with Java (32H)• Course 2: LibreOffice Calc basics (64H)• Course 3: Introduction to Human Computer Interaction (HCI) with JavaFX (64H)

Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Project Chromium Scrolling Latency:Solving a scrolling visual jitter issue in Chromium caused by asynchronous input and output frequencies of the mobile device used.• Developed and deployed a C++ software solution to overcome the issue in Chromium using trajectory prediction algorithms.• Designed and deployed new metrics to measure the scrolling visual jitter on a large set of android devices.• Run user experiments and published the work to a top ranked HCI conference.

Lille, Hauts-De-France, France

Project TurboMouse: Mouse position prediction using an embedded accelerometer to compensate system latency.• Designed a mouse prototype with an embedded accelerometer sensor.• Designed and developed a proof of concept using C++ Qt and Arduino .• Designed an optimized pipeline to merge inputs from the mouse and the accelerometer at high frequency • Predicted mouse position using trajectory prediction algorithms.• Run user experiments and published the work to a top ranked HCI conference.

Lille, Hauts-De-France, France

Project ForceEdge :ForceEdge is a new interaction technique to control the autoscroll velocity on both desktop and touch-based force sensitive devices.• Developed a proof of concept application for iPhone 6S (with a force sensitive surface) using Objective-C and UIKit.• Developed a proof of concept application for macOS (with a force sensitive trackpad) using Objective-C and Cocoa.• Run user experiments and published the work to a top ranked HCI conference.

Lille, Hauts-De-France, France

Project ContéThis project aims to associate different functionnalities to each side of an external pen (e.g. Conté pen) in contact with a touch screen using a resistive sensor.• Developed a prototype iPad app from scratch with C++ Qt• Established pen gestures recognition on the resistive surface with TUIO

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction (Hci)

Master'S Degree, Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction (Hci)

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Technology Degree, Computer Science