[Project Manager]

Dr Olivier Balet is a senior engineer and the R&D manager of the CS' Virtual Reality Department. His main areas of expertise include 3D interaction and animation, Virtual Reality, multi-modal computer-human interfaces, cooperative working, physical simulation, virtual prototyping. Prior to his current position, he has conducted research on 3D interaction at the Toulouse III University, and on virtual human simulation at the ENSICA high school where he was Assistant Professor.
He received his diploma (M.S.) and Ph.D. in computer science (VR specialisation) from the Toulouse III University, France. He is the author of several IST projects (CAVALCADE, VISIONS, V-Planet, V-Man, etc.).
He is also accredited expert to the European Commission for activities under KA3 and KA4 (Virtual Reality, Simulation, Multimedia and Collaborative Working Action lines), Virtual Reality professor at both the Toulouse III University and ENSICA, program committee member or reviewer for international conferences (Eurographics, ICVS, VRIC, Minitrack, etc.), and the author of more than 25 papers published in international journals and conference proceedings in his field of research. He has co-organised international conferences on Virtual Reality and is permanent member of GT-SCOOP (cooperative working), GT-RV (virtual reality) working groups. [contact]

[Project Manager Assistant]

Ms. Rachel Thiébaud is Project Manager assistant in CS. She received her Master Degree in German - Foreign Languages and Civilization - at the Sorbonne-Paris University and a Degree of Trilingual Director's Assistant (Pigier School - Paris). She had been working as Director's Assistant for ten years in different domains : industrial, educative, social (SIEMENS, MATRA COMMUNICATION, AIRBUS, ICAM Engineer School, Solidarity Mission in Lebanon). Last year, she graduated (DESS) in Multimedia Creation at the University Toulouse II - Le Mirail : Project Management, Multimedia and Art, Video Editing, Sound Editing, Interactivity, Ergonomics. Her last jobs : Technical Writer for Video Games at SIDE CITY in Montreal-Canada, Project Manager Assistant for Web Sites at OREALYS in Toulouse. She's fond of video games and video editing. [contact]

[Technical Manager]

Sylvain Bonneau is a senior engineer in CS' Virtual Reality Department. He graduated from ENSIMAG (National Superior School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of Grenoble) in 1999 and firstly worked in CS' Image Processing Department for a year. He then joined the Virtual Reality Department and particularly the Simulation branch where he nowadays manages software development teams. He has already led several projects such as the creation of fully functional 3D virtual cockpits for Airbus training simulators (AVC) or the development of an integrated virtual studio for 2D and 3D visual representation of real-time numerical simulations for MBDA (Osiris).. [contact]

[R&D Developper]

Dr Jérôme Fimes is in charge of the integration of the behavioural module provided by MASA and, more generally, of the development of simulation modules for CRIMSON.
Dr. Fimes received his Engineer diploma from the ENSICA high school and his Ph.D. in Networked systems and Simulation from the Toulouse III University, France. Since his master degree, his researches focused on distributed systems, simulation, telecommunications and visualisation. More specifically, he studied the simulation of hyper-frequencies telecommunications within built environments during his PhD. [contact]

[Lead Developper]

Fabian Serin is a software engineer in CS with expertise in real-time computer graphics. He received a postgraduate diploma, a master in Computer Graphics in 2003 from Toulouse University.
He has been involved in the development of 3D geographic information systems for CS since 2002.
Fabian has also a two year professional experience in software training and development of human resources management software. [contact]

[Technology Provider]

Dr. Emmanuel Chiva is Executive Vice-President, and manages the SCI (simulation) branch of MASA. Emmanuel Chiva has a post-graduate degree from the Ecole Normale Superieure, in Paris. A biologist, he received his Ph.D. in Biocomputing in the field of dynamic complex systems modelling. He joined MASA at its inception, helped develop the Biomethodes subsidiary, and played a key role in MASA business development, before taking the operational responsibility of the SCI branch. He published several papers in the field of complexity and in the field of wargaming/behavior simulation.
Emmanuel Chiva is a member of several industrial associations (NTSA, ADIS, SISO...), cooperates with NATO Modelling & Simulation Group and is an expert for the European Community in the field of complexity sciences. [contact]

[Technology Provider]

David Bourguignon is a Research and Development Engineer at MASA-SCI in Paris, France. He got a PhD in Biomedical Engineering at INP Grenoble, France, in 2003, and spent a year as a post-doctoral researcher at Princeton University, New Jersey, USA, in 2004. His field of expertise is Computer Graphics, especially systems for geometrical modeling by drawing. [contact]

[Technology Provider]

Jerome Comptdaer has been working at MASA since 2003 as research and developpment engineer. His first job was to develop behavioral models for military simulations. He is currently working on crowd simulation systems. He received a Computer Science Engineering degree, with a major in Cognitive Science, in 2003. He has a special interest in human and crowd behavior simulations. [contact]

[Technology Provider]

Lead programmer of the DirectIA SDK, stéphane has been involved in the gaming industry since 1995 and particulary in the AI field since 1998. He has a master's degree in computer science. As Lead programmer for three years at Cryo Interactive ( Paris ), he contributed to projects such as Ubik, Treasure Hunter and LA Blaster. He then joined MASA where he contributed to the development of DirectIA and became the Lead programmer of Conflict Zone.
References: Motivational Graphs : A New Architecture for Complex Behavrior Simulation - AI Game Programming Wisdom 2 - Charles River Media. [contact]

[End User]

Dr. Arjen Boin is an assistant professor at Leiden University’s department of Public Administration (the Netherlands) and director of the Leiden University Crisis Research Center. He currently heads a research group on institutional birth in the public sector (funded by the Dutch Science Foundation) and is member of a research team that studies Eureopean Union crisis canagement capacities. Boin publishes regularly on such topics as leadership, crisis management and institutional design. His most recent books include Crafting Public Institutions: Leadership in Two Prison Systems (Lynne Rienner), Managing Crises: Threats, Dilemmas, Opportunities (Charles C Thomas Publisher) (co-edited with Uriel Rosenthal and Louise Comfort) and The Politics of Crisis Management (co-authored with Paul 't Hart, Bengt Sundelius and Eric Stern) (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). He is the co-founder of the European Crisis Management Academy(ECMA).[contact]

[Technology Provider]

Chartier Christophe. He graduates in Industrial Data Processing in 1990. In 1991 he won the competition to participate at IBM’s sales departments training, he also attended in the same year the school of Industrial Marketing. Since 1995 he travels regularly in Europe and USA to qualify on new product lines and improve his relationship with constructors. Actually he is the President of Immersion SAS. [contact]

[Technology Provider]

Dr. Jean-Baptiste de la Rivière is project manager at Immersion. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the Bordeaux I University, France. Since his master degree, his research interests evolve around interaction and visualisation techniques for Virtual Reality. More specifically, he worked on real-time video analysis techniques to help interaction in large display systems.. [contact]

[Senior Researcher]

Fabio Ganovelli is a researcher in the Visual Computing Lab of ISTI-CNR in Pisa. His research interests include deformable object modelling, collision detection, multiresolution and isosurfaces extraction. He received an advanced degree (Laurea) in 1995 and a PhD in 2001
in Computer Science from the University of Pisa. [contact]

[Senior Researcher]

Claudio Montani is a Research Director with the Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie “A. Faedo” (CNR) in Pisa, Italy. He is head of the Visual Computing Lab. He graduated in Computer Science at the University of Pisa in 1977.
His main research interests include scientific visualisation, volume rendering, web-based graphics, multi-resolution data modelling and rendering, 3D range scanning, Cultural Heritage applications. These activities are carried on within the frameworks of national and international research projects.
On the previous topics, he published more than ninety papers in international refereed journals/conferences and he is reviewer for numerous national and international conferences and journals. He is member of AICA and IEEE Computer Society. [contact]

[Senior Researcher]

Marco Callieri recived a degree in computer science in 2001 at the university of Pisa, and is Ph.D. student at the moment. After graduation, he started working at the Visual Computing LAb as a researcher. His research activity involves standard 3D computer Graphics, with focus on the acquisition of real-world objects in particularly in the Cultural Heritage field aiming to the faithful reconstruction of complex shapes and appearance. He has a strong interest in user interfaces for interaction with 3D complex data.[contact]

[Senior Researcher]

Paolo Cignoni is a permanent researcher at the ISTI: Institute of Information Science and Technologies of the National Research Council in Pisa, Italy; he is a member of the Visual Computing Lab.
His research interests include the following fields of Computer Graphics:
- 3d Scanning and management of large unstructured 3d dataset
- Surface Graphics and Multiresolution Models: efficient visualization and browsing of huge 3D models
- Scientific Visualization: Isosurface extraction and techniques for the simulation of deformable tissues;
He received in 1992 an advanced degree (Laurea) and in 1998 a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Pisa.
He published more than 65 papers on journals and refereed conferences, held tutorials and gave invited talks at main computer graphics conferences. In 2004, he recived the Eurographics Young Researcher Award.[contact]

[Senior Researcher]

Roberto Scopigno is a Senior Research Scientist with CNR-ISTI. He graduated in Computer Science at the University of Pisa in 1984. He has been engaged in research projects concerned with scientific visualisation, volume rendering, multi-resolution data modelling and rendering, 3D range scanning, Cultural Heritage applications; Roberto is the CNR-ISTI responsible for the projects: EU IST “The Virtual Planet” IST-2000-28095, EU IST “ViHAP3D” IST-2001-32641, EU PASR-2004 “CRIMSON: the Crisis Simulation System”. [contact]

[Senior Researcher]

Enrico Gobbetti is the director of the Visual Computing (ViC) group at the Center for Advanced Studies, Research, and Development in Sardinia (CRS4). He holds an Engineering degree (1989) and a Ph.D. degree (1993) in Computer Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). Before joining CRS4, he conducted research on 3D interaction and animation at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, and on time-critical graphics, multimedia and virtual reality at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore MD, USA, and at the Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences (NASA/CESDIS), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD, USA. His current research interests include multiresolution and time-critical graphics, scientific visualization, as well as visual and haptics simulation. Enrico has widely published in international refereed journals and conferences. He served as program committee member and reviewer for international conferences and journals and has organized and taught advanced courses on object-oriented technology, graphics, and virtual reality at universities and international research symposia. [contact]

[Senior Researcher]

Marco Agus was born in Cagliari on December 21th, 1974. He holds a Laurea (M.Sc.) degree (1999) in Electronics Engineering and a Ph.D. degree (2004) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Cagliari, Italy. Since 2000, he is a researcher of the Visual Computing (ViC) group at the Center for Advanced Studies, Research, and Development in Sardinia (CRS4). His current interests are related to computer graphics and scientific visualization, haptic simulations, and surgical simulation.

[Senior Researcher]

Fabio Marton is a researcher in the Visual Computing (ViC) group at the Center for Advanced Studies, Research, and Development in Sardinia (CRS4). He holds a Laurea (M. Sc.) degree (1999) in Computer Engineering from the University of Padova. Before joining CRS4, he worked on 3D scanning at LMTT Padova and Optonet Brescia.