Education

2005-present	Post-doc at the DGP (Toronto, Canada). Advisor: Karan Singh. Research in fluid and character animation.
2002-2005	PhD at the Graphics Lab, Otago University (Dunedin, New Zealand). Advisors: Geoff Wyvill, Marie-Paule Cani and Brendan McCane. Development of deformer techniques for shape modeling including sweepers and swirling-sweepers, and fluid simulation.
2000-2001	Masters in Computer Graphics at INPG (National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble, France). Advisor: Marie-Paule Cani. Curriculum internship on multi-resolution implicit surfaces at {\bf iMAGIS-GRAVIR} laboratory (1/2001--6/2001).
1998-2001	Engineering in Computer Science at EPITA (School for Computer Science and Advanced Techniques, Paris, France). Curriculum internship on 3D object reconstruction from image sequences, at the TSI (Signal-Image Processing) Lab., ENST (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications), in collaboration with the Musée du Louvre (10/1999--12/1999). Advisor: Francis Schmitt.

Experience

	Natural History Filmmaking and Communication (New Zealand). 40 seconds of 3D animated scenes for ``Exhuming Adams'', a documentary about an extinct Mistletoe, using Maya. Freelance (20/04/2005--03/05/2005). Directed and produced by Brant Backlund and Thassilo Franke.
	Natural History Filmmaking and Communication . 40 seconds of 3D animated scenes for ``Back to the Ice'', a documentary on Antarctica, using Maya. Freelance (05/05/2005--10/05/2005). Produced and directed by Mike Booth and Chris Kugelman.
	ARL (Animation Research Ltd, New Zealand). Photoshop photo-editing (11/2004).
	CAT (Character Animation Technology, New Zealand) 3DS Max scripting (2003).
	Research on intestines virtual surgery at iMAGIS-GRAVIR laboratory (7/2001--9/2001).

Awards & scholarship

Best paper award at Pacific Graphics'04, for the Swirling-Sweepers technique.

Best paper award at SMI'04, for the Sweepers technique.

2002-2005 The Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund Scholarship.