TOURNIER Maxime
Born 28th of September, 1984
French Nationality

tournier.maxime (at) gmail.com
103, Impasse Caravelle
B4 - A8
34000 Montpellier FRANCE

Post-Doctoral Researcher
Computer Animation and Robotics

Work Experience

2015 (3 weeks)	Visiting researcher Kinect2 and Occulus Rift development for immersive rehabilitation RIKEN Brain Science Institute / Toyota Collaboration Center Intelligent Behavior Control Unit, Nagoya, Japon
2013 - 2014	Post-doctoral researcher Tacit learning and modal analysis for humanoid locomotion RIKEN Brain Science Institute / Toyota Collaboration Center Intelligent Behavior Control Unit, Nagoya, Japon
2012 - 2013	Post-doctoral researcher Simulation and modeling of soft human/object interactions LIRMM laboratory (DEMAR team). Funding: ANR SoHuSim.
2007 - 2011	Doctoral Researcher in Computer Science Dimension reduction for human motion synthesis Jean Kuntzmann laboratory (EVASION team, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France)
2009 (6 months)	Visiting Ph.D. Student Physically-based character animation Collaboration with Paul Kry McGill University, Montréal, Canada
2007 (5 months)	M.Sc. Internship Motion capture data modeling for compression Jean Kuntzmann laboratory (EVASION team, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France)
2006 (5 months)	Engineer final internship Design & development of a motion capture annotation tool Ubisoft, Montreuil, France
2005 (2 months)	Engineer 2nd year internship Engineering for deformable objects simulation (SOFA framework) INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France
2005 (1 month)	Engineer 1st year internship Development of a monitoring (SNMP)* application and associated website* WOPR-Hosting, Lausanne, Switzerland

Education

2007 - 2011	Ph.D. in Computer Graphics Dimension reduction for human motion synthesis Jean Kuntzmann laboratory (EVASION team, INRIA Grenoble, France) Advisors: Francois Faure, Lionel Reveret
2006 - 2007	M.Sc. in Computer Graphics Motion capture data modeling for compression Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG), France Advisor: Lionel Reveret
2003 - 2006	Engineer in Computer Graphics Imagery & Virtual Reality Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble (ENSIMAG), France

Technical Skills

Expertise	Character animation and control Constrained dynamics and optimization
Teaching	Scientific event: 2D game programming for junior/high-school students Algorithmics in OCaml: 1st year University students classwork (48h)
Programming	C/C++11, Python, Lua, OCaml, Java. Web: HTML/CSS/JavaScript, SQL
Libraries	Boost, Qt, Eigen, OpenGL, OpenCV
Operating Systems	Unix (Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS) Windows basics
Language	English (fluent) French (native) German (basics) Japanese (notions)
Interests	Rock-climbing, ski/snowboard, photography, guitar

Publications

2015	Stable Constrained Dynamics Maxime Tournier, Matthieu Nesme, Benjamin Gilles, François Faure ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH, 2015
2014	Velocity-based Adaptivity of Deformable Models Maxime Tournier, Matthieu Nesme, François Faure, Benjamin Gilles Computer & Graphics, 2014
2012	Principal Geodesic Dynamics Maxime Tournier, Lionel Reveret Proc. of ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, 2012
2011	Natural character posing from a large motion database Xiaomao Wu, Maxime Tournier, Lionel Reveret IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE, 2011, 31 (3), pp. 69-77
2009	Motion Compression using Principal Geodesic Analysis Maxime Tournier, Xiaomao Wu, Nicolas Courty, Elise Arnaud, Lionel Reveret Computer Graphics Forum, 2009, 28, pp 355-364. Eurographics 2009 3rd Best Paper Award.
2008	Motion Compression using Principal Geodesic Analysis (poster) Maxime Tournier, Xiaomao Wu, Nicolas Courty, Elise Arnaud, Lionel Reveret Symposium on Computer Animation, Dublin, Ireland, July 2008.
2007	Paramétrisation de données MoCap pour la compression d'animations 3D Maxime Tournier, Lionel Reveret Master Thesis, Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, June 2007.