Members

Sharing a coffee with members of Geomerix in 2024.

Faculty Members and Permanent Researchers

Marie-Paule Cani

Creative AI

Professor, Ecole Polytechnique

Vicky Kalogeiton

Generative AI and Multimodal Learning

Assistant Professor, HDR, Ecole Polytechnique

Damien Rohmer (Vista team leader)

Computer Animation & 3D Modeling

Professor, Ecole Polytechnique

Engineer

Pascal Guehl

Procedural noise, texture and material synthesis, sketch-based tools.

Research Engineer

2023/04 - 2027/04

Eleftherios Tsonis

Generative AI

Supervisors: Vicky Kalogeiton

2025/10 - 2026/02

Yuanzhi Zhu

Generative AI

Supervisors: Vicky Kalogeiton

2025/10 - 2026/02

Administrative assistant

Fanny Sabatier

PostDocs

Xi Wang

For better conditioning of video diffusion model!

Supervisor: Vicky Kalogeiton

Funding from Hi! Paris

2023/02 - 2025/01

Simo Alami

Supervisor: Marie-Paule Cani

Funding from Hi! Paris

2024/11 - 2025/09

PhD Students under our Main Supervision

Lucas Degeorge

Synthetic captioning for training diffusion models

Supervisors: Vicky Kalogeiton, Nicolas Dufour, David Picard (Ecole des Ponts)

2024/10 - 2027/09

Xianjin (Xavier) Gong

Editing 3D Keyframed Animation via Gesture & Vocal Inputs

Supervisors: Damien Rohmer, Vicky Kalogeiton

2024/10 - 2027/09

Pierre Hubert-Brierre

Level of details implicit surface

Supervisors: Marie-Paule Cani, Eric Galin (LIRIS)

2024/10 - 2027/09

Amandine Legrand

Multiresolution sketch-based animation for 3D virtual model

Telecom Paris

Supervisors: Damien Rohmer, Amal dev Parakkat

2024/10 - 2027/09

Yasser Benigmim

Domain Adaption of Deep Neural Networks for structured prediction tasks

Telecom Paris

Supervisors: Stéphane Lathuilière (Telecom Paris), Slim Essid (Telecom Paris), Vicky Kalogeiton

2021/10 - 2024/10

Paul Boursin

3D Simulation of paleontholitic mobility

Supervisors: Marie-Paule Cani, Sophie Grégoire (MNHN)

PhD funded by CNRS

2023/10 - 2026/09

Tara Butler

Creative AI: Towards a smart 3D authoring system for the visual exploration of scientific models.

Supervisors: Marie-Paule Cani, Pascal Guehl, Amal Dev Parakkat

PhD funded from Hi Paris! Creative AI project

2022/10 - 2025/10

Théo Cheynel

Video-Based Synthesis and Editing of 3D Animated Humanoid Characters Preserving Physically-Based Constraints

Supervisors: Damien Rohmer, Marie-Paule Cani

CIFRE PhD with Kinetix

2022/10 - 2025/10

Robin Courant

The Why of a Filmmaker

Supervisors: Vicky Kalogeiton, Marc Christie (Inria Rennes)

2022/10 - 2025/10

Thanos Delatolas

Scaling up video annotation towards deeper video understanding

Denmark Technical University

Supervisors: Dim P. Papadopoulos (DTU), Vicky Kalogeiton

2022/10 - 2025/10

Nicolas Dufour

Image and video editing using generative models

Ecole des Ponts

Supervisors: David Picard (Ecole des Ponts), Vincent Lepetit (Ecole des Ponts), Vicky Kalogeiton

2021/10 - 2025/03

Ridouane Ghermi

Movie questioning

Supervisors: Vicky Kalogeiton, Ivan Laptev (Inria Paris)

PhD funded from ANR JCJC WhyBehindScenes

2023/06 - 2026/09

Arnaud Gueze

Complex interior scene reconstruction from sparse multimodal data

Supervisors: Damien Rohmer, Marie-Paule Cani

CIFRE PhD with Homiwoo

2023/04 - 2026/03

Julie Mordacq

Multimodal analysis to detect physiological changes

Supervisors: Steve Oudot (GeomeriX), Vicky Kalogeiton

2022/10 - 2025/10

Rodrigo Stevenson

Modeling and Animating complex surfaces with Multi-Valued Field Functions

Supervisors: Damien Rohmer, Marie-Paule Cani

PhD funded from ANR MultiForm

2023/10 - 2026/09

Offsite PhD Students we co-advise

María Isabel Jimenez-Velasco

Automatic analysis of human behaviour in video incorporating 3D information

University of Cordoba, Spain

Supervisors: Manuel J. Marín Jiménez (Cordoba Univ.), Vicky Kalogeiton

2023/01 - 2025/12

Samuel Solé

Digital Portraits: Resurgence and Reconfiguration of the Face in Digital Art

Université Paris Sciences et Lettres

Supervisors: Emmanuel Mahé (EnsadLab), Marie-Paule Cani

PhD in Art History and Theory

2023/09 - 2026/09

Anandhu Sureshkumar

VR-based shape synthesis and editing with minimal input

Télécom Paris

Supervisors: Amal Dev Parakkat, Marie-Paule Cani, Stefanie Hahmann

2023/10 - 2026/10

Antonin Wattel

Sketch-Based Shape Detailing

Télécom Paris

Supervisors: Amal Dev Parakkat, Marie-Paule Cani

2024/01 - 2026/01

External collaborator

Hari Hara Gowtham Jetti

DynColor Optimizing colorization of 2D-Animation

Research Engineer at Télécom

2024/02 - 2025/02

Former team members

Former Visitors [+]

Julia Melgare

Perception Aware Facial Character Animation

PhD at PUC Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Supervisor: Soraia Raupp Musse (PUCRS)

2023/09 - 2024/06

James Gain

Invited Professor

University of Cape Town

2022/04 - 2022/07; 2023/05 - 2023/07

Pierre Poulin

Invited Professor

Université de Montréal

2022/03 - 2022/05

Nefeli Andreou

PhD (Visitor)

University of Cyprus

Supervisor: Vicky Kalogeiton

2022/09 - 2022/12

Former PhDs [+]

David-Henri Garnier

Interactive 3D Modeling of Evolutionary and Emergent Bio-Inspired Shapes

Supervisors: Damien Rohmer

CIFRE PhD with Dassault Systèmes

2020/10 - 2024/05

Current position: Research Engineer, Dassault Systèmes

Leo Milecki

Data-driven methods for renal transplantation

Supervisors: Maria Vakalopoulou (CentraleSupelec), Marc-Olivier Timsit (Necker Hospital), Vicky Kalogeiton

Collaboration with CentraleSupelec

2020/03 - 2023/02

Current position: PostDoc, Weill Cornell Medicine, USA

Jiayi Wei

Novel representations for surface Modeling and Analysis

Supervisors: Damien Rohmer, Pooran Memari (GeomeriX)

PhD partially funded from IP Paris AI Program

2020/10 - 2023/12

Current position: Research Engineer, Inria Sophia Antipolis

Eduardo Alvarado

Human Locomotion in Natural Environments

Supervisors: Damien Rohmer, Marie-Paule Cani

PhD funded from H2020 ITN CLIPE Project

2020/10 - 2023/12

Current position: PostDoc, MPI

Ariel Kwiatkowski

Scenario and interaction-ready agents

Supervisors: Marie-Paule Cani, Vicky Kalogeiton, Julien Pettré (Inria Rennes)

PhD funded from H2020 ITN CLIPE Project

2020/10 - 2023/12

Current position: Meta AI, previously at AIR (AI Redefined)

Maud Lastic

Visual simulation and authoring of consistent volcanic phenomena

Supervisors: Marie-Paule Cani, Damien Rohmer

Polytechnicien grant funding

2019/10 - 2023/07

Pauline Olivier

Dynamic sketches : Hierarchical modeling of complex and time-evolving scenes

Supervisors: Marie-Paule Cani, Pooran Memari

2019/10 - 2022/03

Current position: Consultant engineer, Akkodis

Thomas Buffet

Field-based approaches for the collision-free animation of layered and dynamic clothing

Supervisors: Damien Rohmer, Marie-Paule Cani

2017/10 - 2021/01

Current position: Engineer 2K

Pierre Ecormier-Nocca

Authoring consistent, animated ecosystems : Efficient learning from partial data

PhD + PostDoc

Supervisors: Marie-Paule Cani, Pooran Memari

2017/10 - 2020/12

Current position: PostDoc TU Wien

Former PostDocs [+]

Christophe Lino

Virtual cinematography of flying vehicles

PostDoc

Supervisor: Marie-Paule Cani

2020/01 - 2022/01

Current position: Professeur aggregé, Nantes

Jiong Chen

Real-time atmospheric simulation effects

Supervisor: Marie-Paule Cani

Funding from Uber chair in Integrated Urban Mobility

2022/09 - 2023/09

Current position: Young researcher, Inria

Zhisong Liu

Artificial Intelligence and Visual Computing

Supervisors: Marie-Paule Cani, Vicky Kalogeiton

Funding from Google chair

2020 - 2021

Current position: Associate professor at LUT (Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology), Finland

Former Interns [+]

Sixtine Lyonnet

Bachelor 3A : Procedural Sketch Interpretation for 3D plant design

Ecole polytechnique

Supervisors: Marie-Paule Cani, Paul Boursin

Bachelor Thesis at Ecole Polytechnique

2025/01 - 2025/03

Tim Scheller

Digital twins of plant growth

Supervisors: Marie-Paule Cani, Maks Ovsjanikov

PhD partially funded by Hi! Paris.

2023/10 - 2026/09

Marie Bienvenu

Master 2 : Hierarchical Deformation of Shape Primitives for Expressive Video-based Control on 3D Keyframed Animation

Ecole polytechnique

Supervisors: Damien Rohmer, Pascal Guehl

2024/03 - 2024/08

Arjun Bommadevara

Bachelor 3A : Procedural Sketch Interpretation for 3D plant design

Ecole polytechnique

Supervisors: Marie-Paule Cani, Tara Butler, Pascal Guehl, Amal Dev Parakkat

Bachelor Thesis at Ecole Polytechnique

2024/01 - 2024/03

Zoé Herson

Master 1 : Real-Time physical model in Unity for paleontholitic scenes

ENS ULM

Supervisor: Marie-Paule Cani

2023/09 - 2023/12

Paul Boursin

Master 2 MPRI : Deep-RL for physically simulated Homo Heidelbergensis

Ecole Polytechnique

Supervisor: Marie-Paule Cani

2023/04 - 2023/09

Gorazd Dimitrov

Master 1 MPRI : Real-time high quality meshing of skeleton-based implicit surfaces

Ecole Polytechnique

Supervisor: Marie-Paule Cani

2023/04 - 2023/06

Tim Scheller

Master 2 : Data-guided animated virtual model of growing plants and mushrooms

University of Applied Science in Cologne

Supervisors: Marie-Paule Cani, Damien Rohmer

2022/09 - 2023/03

Ekaterina Borisova

Bachelor 3A : Interactive Design with Physarum Model

Ecole Polytechnique

Supervisors: Damien Rohmer, David-Henri Garnier

2023/01 - 2023/03

Vilius Tubinas

Bachelor 3A : Reinforcement learning-based locomotion on uneven terrain

Ecole Polytechnique

Supervisors: Marie-Paule Cani, Ariel Kwiatkowski

2023/01 - 2023/03

Laurianne Bertrand

Master 2 : Sketching Animations of Organic Shapes

IP Paris

Supervisors: Marie-Paule Cani, Damien Rohmer

2022/03 - 2022/09

Vincent Bonczak

Master 2 : Multi-resolution sketches: Zooming into scientific illustrations with unlimited levels of details

ENS Paris-Saclay

Supervisors: Marie-Paule Cani, Renaud Charbier

2022/03 - 2022/09

Maika Edberg

Bachelor 3A : Audio-visual understanding of human interaction in videos

Ecole Polytechnique

Supervisors: Vicky Kalogeiton

2022/01 - 2022/03

Lucien Walewski

Bachelor 3A : Video summarization with multimodal understanding of human interactions

Ecole Polytechnique

Supervisors: Vicky Kalogeiton

2022/01 - 2022/03

Lazar Milikic

Bachelor 3A : Spatial-Temporal Action Recognition with Transformers

Ecole Polytechnique

Supervisors: Vicky Kalogeiton

2022/01 - 2022/03

Elouan Gros

Bachelor 3A : Correlation between animal displacement and terrain steepness

Ecole Polytechnique

Supervisors: Marie-Paule Cani, Pooran Memari

2022/01 - 2022/03

Ewen Collin

Licence 2 : Interactive online demonstrator of Velocity Skinning

Institut Villebon Georges Charpak

Supervisor: Damien Rohmer

2021/03 - 2021/05

Adrien Cances

Master 1 : Self-supervised learning of spatio-temporal video embeddings for automatic human interactions detection

Ecole des Ponts

Supervisor: Vicky Kalogeiton

2021/03 - 2021/07