Ronan Boulic

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Fields of expertise

Experimental study of Embodiment in VR,
Immersive Interaction,
Human Movement Modelling,
Human Posture Optimization,
Real-Time 3D Interaction,
Motion Capture,
Inverse Kinematics,
Locomotion and steering control,
Expression of complex emotions

Advisor

Loën Boban

Presented PhD thesis:
Nana Tian (2023)
Mathias Delahaye (2023)
Thibault Porssut (2021)
Henrique Galvan Debarba (2016)
Eray Molla (2015)
Daniel Raunhardt (2010)
Schubert de Carvalho (2009)
Benoît Le Callennec (2006)
Paolo Baerlocher (2001)

Supervisor

Presented PhD thesis:

Damien Maupu
Ehsan Arbabi
Pascal Glardon
Anderson Maciel
Sofiane Sarni
Luc Emering
Tom Molet
Pascal Beicheraz
Huang Zihong

Co-Advisor

On-going PhD thesis:

Manuel Peinado Gallego (Uni. Alcala, Spain)

Presented PhD thesis:

Inmaculada Rodriguez Santiago (Uni. Alcala, Spain)

Ramon Mas Sanso (Uni. Balearic Islands, Spain)

Mission

RESEARCH: My major research interest is on motion synthesis for virtual humans and robot, in particular while performing immersive 3D full-body interactions within potentially complex virtual envrionments. This includes also human movement modeling with some recent activities in collaboration with EPFL Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory (LNCO). Applications can be found in Virtual Prototyping, Games, Ergonomics, 3D Human-Machine Interfaces, etc... Since February 2011 I lead the Immersive Interaction research group (IIG).

TEACHING: I greatly appreciate to teach the basis of Computer Science (ICC), Programming and Software Engineering to first year

Biography

I come from Brittany, France, where I have completed my PhD degree in Computer Science in 1986 from the University of Rennes, France, at the INRIA-IRISA research institute. I also received the Habilitation degree from the University of Grenoble, France, in march 1995.

I was hired in 1989 as First Assistant in the VRLAB, I became scientific collaborator, and senior researcher.

Publications

Infoscience publications

Research

Research Gate profile

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ronan_Boulic/

Teaching & PhD

Teaching

Computer Science

Communication Systems

Past EPFL PhD Students

Boban Loën , Delahaye Mathias Guy , Galvan Debarba Henrique , Molla Eray , Porssut Thibault Serge Mario , Raunhardt Daniel , Ribeiro de Carvalho Schubert , Tian Nana ,

Courses

Project oriented programming

This course focuses on the complementary features of the C language that allow to design robust modular applications (principle of separation of concerns). The practice dimension is deemed particularly important ; for this reason a significant time is devoted to a project.

Information, Computation, Communication

The goal is this course is to introduce students to computational thinking, to present fondamental ideas of computer science and to develop their first programming skills (C language).

Virtual reality

The goal of VR is to embed the users in a potentially complex virtual environment while ensuring that they are able to react as if this environment were real. The course provides a human perception-action background and describes the key programming techniques for achieving efficient VR applications