Pascal Guehl

Contact

E-mail:

ARTIS
INRIA Rhône-Alpes
655, avenue de l'Europe
38334 Saint Ismier Cedex
FRANCE

Phone:	(+33) 4 76 61 55 88
Fax:	(+33) 4 76 61 54 40

Summary
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Multidisciplinary training at :

the University (Master of Physics and Applications)
and Engineering School (ESIEA Engineer)

I decided to indulge my passion and I specialize in the field of Computer Graphics and 3D real-time programming (Specialized Master ENSAM).

My industrial career in Visual Simulation and Virtual Reality gained at :

THALES Training & Simulation
CS (Communication & Systèmes)

Diginext

allowed me to work on exciting and innovative projects in the field of real-time 3D visualization for companies such as :

CNES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales)
IRSN (Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire)
Airbus
HPC department (High Performance Computing) at CS
CEA
Renault
Cité de l'Espace
etc...

Research themes

My work deals with computer graphics. I'm focused on:

Volume rendering (ray-tracing, voxels)
GPU Computing (CUDA) : use, debugging, performance analysis, technology watch
Real-time 3D visualization with OpenGL and GLSL shaders

GigaVoxels
I recently joined the research team Maverick as an R&D engineer on the GigaVoxels project.
This technology allows :

real-time 3D visualization of very large data volumes.

The “GigaVoxels” technology has risen from the explanatory phase research and first implementation by Cyril Crassin, a PhD student at INRIA, now in postdoc at NVidia.
This project, conducted under the supervision of Fabrice Neyret, senior researcher at INRIA in Computer Graphics, has lead to several publications and talks as well as two book chapters (see Cyril Crassin's web page).

I'm currently involved in an industrial implementation of GigaVoxels based on :

Efficient Rendering of Highly Detailed Volumetric Scenes with GigaVoxels by Cyril Crassin, Fabrice Neyret, Miguel Sainz, Elmar Eisemann [available in book : "GPU Pro" (A K Peters, page 643--676 - 2010)].
GigaVoxels: A Voxel-Based Rendering Pipeline For Efficient Exploration Of Large And Detailed Scenes, the Cyril Crassin's PhD Thesis.

RTIGE
The GigaVoxels team is partner of the ANR (The French National Research Agency) funded project "RTIGE, Real-Time & Interactive Galaxy for Edutainment".
This project, started in december 2010, will last 48 months.

"RTI Galaxy for Edutainment program proposes to address the problem of display, representation and real-time rendering of scenes composed of massively heterogeneous possibly animated elements. This theme will be applied to the particular field of the Galaxy."

The main French industrial company, RSA Cosmos, has been in the planetarium business for more than 20 years and can now count more than 150 planetariums installed across the world. We collaborate to provide tools to visualize galaxy, in which GigaVoxels belongs.

Recent publications

Here are my latest publications:

» See the complete list of my publications
» Image gallery

Curriculum Vitae

My CV online : » LinkedIn

Formation Initiale

ENSAM : Mastère Spécialisé Simulation et Réalité Virtuelle
ESIEA : Ingénieur (Mention Très Honorable avec les Félicitations du Jury)
UCP : Maîtrise de Physique et Applications
UCP : Licence de Physique
UCP : Deug MIAS (préparation ENSI)

Teaching

I do not teach but I would like to.

Personal area

Here is what I like. Some links.

Some links...
» My personal music site Below, two of my compositions in instrumental version. It's kind of Rock/Metal Progressive music like the band Dream Theater : musicality, virtuosity, images and words.