Team members

Team leader

Bruno Cessac, Inria Research Director, team leader Keywords: neuronal and retinal modeling, neural population coding, dynamical systems, statistical physics, software development.

Researchers

Pierre Kornprobst, Inria Research Director Keywords: visual system modeling, biologically-inspired computer vision, computer vision, image processing, variational approaches, accessibility technologies, virtual and augmented reality

Hui-Yin Wu, Inria Starting Faculty Position Keywords: interactive storytelling, extended reality (VR/AR), accessible media for low-vision, computational/assisted creativity, procedural 3D content generation, user modeling, multimedia analysis

Ph.D. students

Pauline Devictor (2024-2027). Topic: Empathetic storytelling in interactive extended reality. Co-supervised by Marco Winckler and Hui-Yin Wu.

Sebastian Gallardo Diaz (2023-2026). Topic: Optimizing newspaper aesthetics preserving style under visual constraints: a computational approach of layouting. Co-supervised by Pierre Kornprobst and Dorian Mazauric.

Johanna Delachambre (Nov. 2022-Oct. 2025) Topic: Social interactions in low vision: A collaborative approach based on immersive technologies, co-supervised by Pierre Kornprobst and Hui-Yin Wu.

Franz Franco Gallo (Nov. 2022-Oct. 2025) Topic: Modeling 6DoF Navigation and the Impact of Low Vision in Immersive VR Contexts, supervised by Hui-Yin Wu and Lucile Sassatelli  (ANR CREATTIVE3D)

Postdocs

Jérôme Emonet (Oct. 2021-Oct. 2024), topic: A computational model of the retino-thalamo-cortical pathway, co-supervised by Bruno Cessac and Alain Desthexe (Institut des Neurosciences Paris‑Saclay).

Paritosh Sharma (Jan. 2025-Feb 2026), topic: Deep generative approaches for personalized training in virtual reality, supervised by Hui-Yin Wu.

Interns

Wei-Tung Pan (Jan. 2025-Jun. 2025, from Master de Sciences Cognitives Université de Bordeaux), topic: Multimodal Performance Analysis of Spatial Navigation Tasks in Virtual Reality, co-supervised by Hui-Yin Wu and Stephen Ramanoël

Administrative assistant

Marie-Cecile Lafont Email : Marie-Cecile.Lafont AT inria.fr Tel : +33 (0)4 92 38 78 30

Former members

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•  Researchers
  • Aurelie Calabrese, (Starting Research Position, 2019-Sept.2021) is now a resarcher at CNRS (LPC, Marseille). 
• Postdocs
  • Daniela Pamplona (Apr. 2014-Dec. 2016) is now a Enseignante-chercheuse at Université de Cergy-Pontoise (Paris, France).
  • Audric Drogoul, (Oct. 2014-Oct. 2016) is now a research engineer at Thales Alenia Space (Cannes, France).
•  Ph.D.
  • Jérôme Emonet (Oct. 2021-Oct. 2024) Topic: A computational model of the retino-thalamo-cortical pathway, co-supervised by Bruno Cessac and Alain Desthexe (Institut des Neurosciences Paris‑Saclay).
  • Florent Robert (Oct. 2021-Nov. 2024) defended his PhD on “Analyzing and Understanding Embodied Interactions in Extended Reality Systems”, co-supervised by Hui-Yin Wu, Marco Winckler (I3S), and Lucile Sassatelli (I3S).
  • Alexandre Bonlarron (Oct. 2021- … ) Topic: Automatic generation of text under constraints for the detection and monitoring of visual pathologies: Development of fundamental AI methods in automatic language processing, supervisor: Pierre Kornprobst, co-supervised by Jean-Charles Régin (I3S) and Aurélie Calabrese (LPC)
  • Simone Ebert (Oct. 2020-Nov. 2023) defended her PhD on December 13th, 2023. She is now a postdoc in Olivier Marre’s team at the Vision Institute in Paris. She also recently earned a DocWalker funding from the Université Côte d’Azur and spent two months (October-November 2023) in Valparaiso Chile, in Adrian Palacios‘ team.
  • Evgenia Kartsaki (Oct. 2017-Dec. 2021) defended her Ph.D. entitled “How Specific Classes of Retinal Cells Contribute to Vision: a Computational Model,” and she is now an innovation and transfer software development engineer at NeuroMod Institute (UCA).
  • Selma Souihel, (Oct. 2016-Dec. 2019) defended her Ph.D. entitled “Generic and specific computational principles for visual anticipation of motion trajectories,” and she is now a research engineer at start-up ZEBRYS.
  • Dora Karvouniari, (Oct. 2014-Mar. 2018) defended her Ph.D. entitled “Retinal waves: theory, numerics, experiments” and she is now a specialist in scientific communication at Eurecom.
  • N. V. Kartheek Medathati, (Oct. 2013-Dec. 2016) defended his Ph.D. entitled “Towards synergistic models of motion information processing in biological and artificial vision,” and he is now a Computer Vision Research Scientist with GE Global Research in Niskayuna (from 28th June 2021).
• Engineers:
  • Clément Bergman (Nov. 2022 – Apr 2024, Full-time engineer). Topic: data processing and software development. ANR TRACTIVE (https://www.i3s.unice.fr/TRACTIVE/home)
  • Jérémy Termoz-Masson (June 2021-Oct. 2023) Topic: Development of the Perception Toolbox for Virtual Reality (PTVR, https://ptvr.inria.fr), ANR DEVISE (https://devise.inria.fr)
  • Iliann Caugant, Business developer (Sept. 2018-June 2019), is now Sales Business Development at BeNomad
  • Marco Benzi, Engineer (Aug. 2017-June 2019), is now React Native Developer at felmo
  • Josselin Gautier, Engineer (Aug. 2017-Mar. 2018), is now Postdoc at Institut de la Vision.
• Interns
  • Johanna Delachambre, apprenticeship (Nov. 2020-Nov. 2022), is now doing her Ph.D. with us.
  • Sebastián Gallardo Díaz, Internship (2020), will start a Ph.D. with us in January 2023.
  • Ignacio Patricio Ampuero, Internship (2020).
  • Alex Ye, Internship (2020).
  • Teva Andreoletti, Internship (2018 and 2019).
  • Francois Caddet, Internship (2017).
  • Alberto Patino, Internship (2017).
  • Marco Benzi, Internship (2016).