VCity Team Members

Fri, Mar 25, 2022

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)
• Eric BOIX : CNRS Engineer (VCity member since December 2015)

Post-doctoral, Doctoral and Engineer positions

• Clément COLIN: Doctoral position (January 2022 - December 2024) 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.

• Arnaud Grignard: Post-Doctoral fellow (Marie Curie H2020 fund) (May 2021 - April 2023) Research topic: Reactive Agent-based Tangible simulation for decision making in urban studies (funded by ReAgent project- H2020 Marie Curie action).

• Diego VINASCO-ALVAREZ: Doctoral position (oct 2020 - oct. 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.

• Corentin GAUTIER: Engineer (November 2020 - …) Research topic: Mediation, game and public spaces (effort part of the TIGA Project )

• Valentin Machado: Engineer (january 2021- …) Topic: Gamification context for new 3D collective animation

• Lorenzo Marnat : Engineer (November 2021- …) Research topic: Management of 2D and 3D geospatial data for building 3D scenes (effort part of the TIGA Project )

• Mathieu Livebardon : Engineer (November 2021- …) Topic: Gamification context for new 3D collective animation

Trainee/students members

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Former members

• 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 Marnat : 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)

• 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