Thomas Chatagnon

PhD Student

Email : thomas.chatagnon@inria.fr
Address :
IRISA, INRIA Rennes – Bretagne Atlantique
Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu
35042 Rennes, France
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Email : tairan.yin@inria.fr
Address :
IRISA, INRIA Rennes – Bretagne Atlantique
Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu
35042 Rennes, France
Tel. : +33 2 99 84 22 99
Assistant : 02 99 84 22 52 (Hélène de La Ruée)

Short bio

In July 2017, I graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics in Beihang University, China.

From September 2016 to August 2018, I spent 2 years in France as a double degree exchange student in Ecole Centrale de Marseille, with a focus on Computer Science. During this period of time, I took part in several different short projects about image process, 3D reconstruction and deep learning.

From September 2018 to June 2020, I finished my double degree exchange and went back to China. I pursued my master’s degree in State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems which was attached to Beihang University. My master’s research focused on real time 3D reconstruction of human hand based on depth maps. Afterward, I obtained a Master of Engineering degree from Beihang University and an engineering degree from Ecole Centrale de Marseille.

Since November 2020 I started my new journey in the RAINBOW team of INRIA Rennes as a PhD student. I am currently working on the generation of realistic trajectories of virtual humans and the population of virtual scenes. This research is in the context of CLIPE project.

Vicenzo Abichequer Sangalli

PhD Student

Email :
vicenzo.abichequer-sangalli@inria.fr

Address :
IRISA, INRIA Rennes – Bretagne Atlantique
Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu
35042 Rennes, France

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I started my undergrad in Computer Engineering in 2013, at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), in my hometown of Porto Alegre, in southern Brazil. During this time, I was part of a government-funded 1 year exchange program in the US called Science Without Borders and spent two semesters studying at Mercer University as part of my undergrad, while also completing a summer internship in California, at UC, Berkeley. I was involved in research since 2013 and was a permanent member of the Virtual Reality Group at PUCRS, working with image processing and virtual reality projects, while also publishing some papers. I left the group in January 2019 after getting my engineering degree.

I moved to Madrid, Spain, in February 2019 to start a research position at the Autonomous University of Madrid, as part of the Machine Learning Group. I also started my master’s degree in Machine Learning, Research and Innovation at the same university in September 2019, using my research project as thesis, and graduated from my master’s with honors in July 2020.

In September 2020 I moved to Rennes, France, to start a PhD at Inria. My thesis is within the CLIPE project and is directed towards enhancing the reactivity and responsiveness of virtual agents. It is being supervised by Julien Pettré, Ludovic Hoyet, Marc Christie and Carol O’Sullivan.

On a personal note, I love playing videogames and watching Formula 1. I usually play racing simulators, such as Gran Turismo, and all sorts of RPGs. As for F1, I’m a big fan of McLaren and my favorite drivers are Lando Norris, George Russel and Daniel Ricciardo! I’m an Italian-Brazilian citizen, but I’ve lived most of my life in Brazil. I speak Portuguese, English, Spanish and I’m learning French!