After my studies across the United States (B.Sc.), France (M.Sc.), and Japan (Ph.D.), I pursued a career in research and teaching focusing on computer science. My early work, from 2002 to 2008, was affiliated with INRIA, University Henri Poincaré, and CNRS in France. From 2008 to 2011, I led a research and development team for the FP7 EU project CyberEmotions integrating emotional models into virtual reality applications. This project spanned nearly three years at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Since 2012, I have been a faculty member in the Image Processing & Computer Graphics group which I led for five years at HE-Arc. The HE-Arc is part of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Western Switzerland (HES-SO), in Neuchâtel and Lausanne. My research current interests include extended reality (XR), virtual, mixed, and augmented reality, and also industrial gamification, serious games, and real-time computation and visualization. Additionally, I am engaged in the taxonomy of digital interaction fields distinguishing Serious Games, Gamifications, and Gamified Simulations.
My research domain of application are primarily education, space sciencce, and health -- i.e., emergency response, rehabilitation, oncology, and thanatology. Other applications mainly involve real-time data transfer, compression, computation, and visualization. An overview of my recent work is accessible on this website. It includes R&D projects, scholarly publications, and academic committee engagements. Among my roles, I recently directed the international conference Gamification & Serious Games (GSGS). To date, I have authored over 100 publications, including the book "WebGL par la pratique" (@PPUR, "WebGL by Practicing"). I also served as editor for the GSGS series, which expanded from symposiums (GSGS'16 to GSGS'20) to international conferences (GSGS'21 and GSGS'23) [gsgs.ch].
Beyond the academic world, I have a deep admiration for Japanese culture. Cooking sushi and practicing the martial arts - karate, aikido and kyudo - has been a passion of mine for 40 years. Meeting grandmaster Moriteru Ueshiba, grandson of the founder of aikido, was a profound experience. Three hours of observation, including a personal correction, revealed just how much I still have to learn: everything! This balance between rigour, respect and harmony continues to shape my life and my work.
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