VCity Team Members

Fri, Jun 9, 2023

Staff members

• Gilles GESQUIERE : Professor, Head of Vcity project (VCity member since 2013)
• Sylvie SERVIGNE : Associate Professor (VCity member since 2014)
• John SAMUEL : Associate Professor (VCity member since 2017, previously post doctoral researcher)
• Johanna DELANOY : Associate Professor (VCity member since 2021)
• Thibault DUPONT: Associate Professor (VCity member since May 2022)
• Eric BOIX : CNRS Engineer (VCity member since December 2015)

Post-doctoral, Doctoral and Engineer positions

• Diego VINASCO-ALVAREZ: ATER position (September 1, 2023 - August 31, 2024) Research topic: Improving the quality of semantic harmonization of knowledge in urban digital twin (UDT) and smart city applications for decision-making support. The 3 main research axes this project focuses on (in the context of UDT and smart city applications) are: Improving semantic harmonization of nD urban data (and data models) for improving interoperability of heterogeneous data standards and multisource data in UDT and smart city applications, Providing a methodology for integrating high-frequency and low-frequency data in the twinning process, and Improving geospatial 3D support for knowledge graph standards and technologies

• Jey PUGET GIL: Doctoral position (January 3, 2023 - January 2, 2026) Research topic: Urban Knowledge Hub for Evolving Cities

• Clément COLIN: Doctoral position (January 1, 2022 - January 31, 2025) Research topic: currently doing a study in VCity in collaboration with Carl Software company , that aims to identify use cases, scientifical and technological locks, in order to integrate, visualize and interact in 2D, 3D and 4D with cities and buildings data in a Web environment.

• Corentin GAUTIER: Doctoral position (November, 2022 - September, 2025) Research topic: Dynamic, virtual and tangible representations of the city (effort part of the TIGA Project )

• Valentin MACHADO: Engineer (January 1, 2021- December 31, 2023) Topic: Gamification context for new 3D collective animation

• Lorenzo MARNAT : Engineer (November 2021- December 31, 2024) Research topic: Management of 2D and 3D geospatial data for building 3D scenes (effort part of the TIGA Project )

• Mathieu LIVEBARDON : Engineer (December 1, 2021- December 31, 2024) Topic: Gamification context for new 3D collective animation

Trainee/students members

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Former members and positions

• Diego VINASCO-ALVAREZ: Doctoral position (October 1, 2020 - September 30, 2023) Research topic: looking for conversion methods between urban data formats and queries to study social and urban datasets in order to explore n-dimensional city representations. With an emphasis on implementing a tool for converting geospacial formats into RDF graphs and a system of queries to efficiently execute over the resulting data.

• Julien PERCHERON : Internship (May 22, 2023 - September 30, 2023). Topic: Vegetation in urban city models

• Wesley PETIT : Internship (May 22, 2023 - September 30, 2023). Topic: Sunlight and shadow impact

• Arnaud GRIGNARD: Research Engineer (Marie Curie H2020 fund) (June 1, 2021 - May 31, 2023) Research topic: Reactive Agent-based Tangible simulation for decision making in urban studies (funded by ReAgent project- H2020 Marie Curie action).

• Laurène SMYKOWSKY: Engineer (june 2021- December 2021) Topic : Interactions between users in multidimensional spaces (effort part of the DatAgora project )

• Antoine WEBANCK: Research Engineer (March - December 2021) Research topic: Management and documentation of multidimensional spaces (effort part of the DatAgora project )

• Clément COLIN: Engineer (Nov. 2019 - December 2021) Research topic: currently doing a study in VCity in collaboration with Carl Software company , that aims to identify use cases, scientifical and technological locks, in order to integrate, visualize and interact in 2D, 3D and 4D with cities and buildings data in a Web environment.

• Lorenzo MARNATt : Internship (May - October 2021) Research topic: Management of 2D and 3D geospatial data for building 3D scenes.

• Mathieu LIVEBARDON : Intership (May - November 2021) Topic: Gamification context for new 3D collective animation

• Homère BOURGEOIS: Engineer (December - July 2021), Internship (June - Nov. 2020) Research topic: managing 3D contents in a tangible table context (effort part of the DatAgora project )

• Vincent JAILLOT: PhD student (February 2016 - April 2020) and Ingeneer (from April to 30th september 2020) Research topic: proposing methods and tools for enhancing 3D city models with their temporal dimension and with multimedia documents, for their visualization in a web context (linked to Fab-Pat project)

• Corentin GAUTIER: Engineer (November 2020 - October 2022) Topic: Development of new, innovative mediation tools for the re-establishment of the link between the citizen and the industries of their territory. (part of TIGA project)

• Diego VINASCO-ALVAREZ: Engineer Internship (March - August 2020) Research topic: looking for conversion methods between urban data formats and queries to study social and urban datasets in order to explore n-dimensional city representations. With an emphasis on implementing a tool for converting geospacial formats into RDF graphs and a system of queries to efficiently execute over the resulting data.

• Corentin GAUTIER: Engineer Internship (May - Sep. 2020) Research topic: managing 3D contents in a tangible table context (effort part of the DatAgora project )

• Thibaut CHATAING: Engineer Intership (Feb. - July 2020) Research topic: representations of city evolutions.

• Charlie BESSOT: Tech Internship (May - July 2020) Research topic: texturing 3D urban environments in a web browser which comprehends adding textures to buildings, terrain, trees, …

• Thomas LEYSSENS: Post doctoral researcher (April 2019 - March 2020) Research topic: enriching the processes of understanding of the city, particularly in terms of accessibility to nature in a context of urban densification (linked to Canopy project)

• Yann-Laurick ABE: Engineer Internship (June - July 2019) Research topic: managing heterogeneous urban data in a 3D view

• Valentin RIGOLLE: Engineer Internship (May - August 2019) Research topic: documenting cities

• Eric BOUCHER: Engineer Internship (May - Sep. 2018) Research topic: tangible platform for a better understanding of cities

• Sophïa ABOUJOUDA: Engineer Internship (March - Sep. 2018) Research topic: citizen participative involvement in city management

• Laurent TAINTURIER: Engineer Internship (June - July 2018) Research topic: a client/server approach for web based user provided geographic attachement of multi-media documents

• Jérémy GAILLARD: PhD student (March 2015 - May 2018) Research topic: use of three-dimensional geolocalized information for analysis, exchange and representation of cities

• Florian LANET: Infographist (May - Sep. 2017) Research topic: creating 3D models with historical archives

• Frédéric PEDRINIS: PhD student (April 2014 - Oct. 2017) Research topic: representations and dynamics of the virtual city

• Nicolas SAUL: Engineer Internship (May - Sep. 2017) Research topic: Managing 3D models in a web context

• Emmanuel SCHMUCK: Engineer Internship (May - Sep. 2017)
  Research topic: city documentation and storytelling for a better understanding of the city evolution

• John SAMUEL: postdoctoral researcher (Feb. 2016 - Feb. 2017) Research topic: city evolution (in relation with the Alaric Project )

• Clémence DUTEL: Infographist (March 2016 - Jan. 2017) Research: creating 3D models with historical archives

• Martial TOLA: CNRS Engineer (Jan. 2014 - Sept. 2016) Research topic: managing tools and source code in the Vcity project

• Clément CHAGNAUD: Engineer Internship (February - July 2016) Research topic: 3D representations for a better understanding of urban changes; the example of the left bank of the Rhône river in Lyon (1781-2015)

• Jérémy EDERT: Engineer Internship (June - Oct. 2015) Research topic: visualization of 3D urban data in a web browser

• Soizic LE GOUGUEC: Infographist (April - Sep. 2015) Research topic: creating 3D models with historical archives

• Cyril BRIQUET: Engineer (April - Sep. 2015) Research topic: assessing the privatization of skylines using 3D modelling: the case of Lyon

• Aurélien ARGOUD: Engineer Internship (Feb. - June 2015) Research topic: change detection in 3D Point cloud urban data

• Alexandre VIENNE: Engineer Internship (April - June 2014) Research topic: Visualization of 3D urban data in a web browser

• Alexandre VIENNE: Engineer (Nov. 2014 - Jan. 2015) Research topic: visualization of 3D urban data in a web browser

• Maxime MOREL: Engineer (June 2013 - Sep. 2014) Research topic: algorithms for reading, modifying, exporting and visualizing heterogeneous urban data

• Yohan RENARD: Infographist (April - Sep. 2014) Research topic: creating 3D models with historical archives

• Rémi BAUME: Engineer Intership (April - June 2014) Research topic: visualization of 3D urban data in a web browser