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Daniel Thalmann
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BIOGRAPHY
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Daniel Thalmann is Professor and Director of The Virtual Reality Lab (VRlab) at EPFL, Switzerland. He is a pioneer in research on virtual humans. His current research interests include real-time virtual humans in virtual reality, immersive virtual environments, crowd simulation, and multimodal interaction. Daniel Thalmann has been Professor at The University of Montreal and Visiting Professor/Researcher at CERN, University of Nebraska, University of Tokyo, and Institute of System Science in Singapore.
Daniel Thalmann has published more than 400 papers in graphics, animation, and virtual reality. He is coeditor of 30 books including the recent “Handbook of Virtual Humans”, published by John Wiley and Sons and coauthor of several books including the book "Crowd Simulation" published by Springer in Fall 2007. He was also codirector of several computer-generated films with Virtual Actors including a Virtual Marilyn shown on numerous TV channels all over the world.
He received his PhD in Computer Science in 1977 from the University of Geneva and an Honorary Doctorate (Honoris Causa) from University Paul-Sabatier in Toulouse, France, in 2003.
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MAIN PUBLICATIONS
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Efficient Collision Detection within Deforming Spherical Sliding Contact, A. Maciel, R. Boulic, D.Thalmann, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol.13, No.3, 2007, pp.518-529
Building Exposure: Synergy of Interaction and Narration through Social Channels, B.Herbelin, M.Ponder, D.Thalmann, Presence, MIT Press, Vol.14, No2, 2005 pp.234-246
A Behavioral Model for Real Time Simulation of Virtual Human Crowds, S.Raupp Musse, D.Thalmann, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol.7, No2, 2001, pp.152-164.
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Publications
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see VRlab publications
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current work
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He is currently involved in 7 EU projects, the NCCR CO-ME and 3 Swiss National Foundation projects. He is also cowriting 3 books: one on Crowd Simulation, one on Virtual Rehabilitation, and one textbook on VR.
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Professional
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Co-editor-in-chief, Journal of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds
Editor, The Visual Computer, Transactions on Edutainment, Journal Of Universal Computer Science, Computer Graphics & Geometry, International Journal Of Human Factors Modelling And Simulation, International Journal Of Virtual Reality,International Review on Computers and Software
President, SARIT, the Swiss Association for Research in Information technology
Member of the Board of Directors, ERCIM, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics
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Conferences
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Member Steering Committee, ACM/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation
Member Steering Committee, ACM Virtual Reality Software Technology (VRST)
Member Steering Committee, International Workshop on Virtual Rehabilitation (IWVR)
Program CoChair, CASA 2010
Program CoChair, ACM VRST 2009
Program CoChair, ACM VRCAI 2009
Program CoChair, CAG GRAPHICS 2009
Program CoChair, CGI 2008
Program CoChair, ACM VRCAI 2008
Program CoChair, Virtual Rehabilitation 2007
Program CoChair, CGI 2007
CoChair, ACM VRST 2008
CoChair, CyberWorlds 2008
Chair, CGIM 2008
CoChair, CASA 2007
CoChair, ACM/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation 2007 (SCA 2007)
CoChair and Program Chair, CyberWorlds 2006
CoChair, ACM VRCIA 2006
CoChair, VSMM 2006
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Private
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Married to Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann
3 children: Melanie Vanessa Sabrina
Sports and hobbies
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Full Professor