Yvon Halbwachs

Senior Scientific Programmer
Mobile: +47 95 94 14 42
Office: +47 95 94 14 42
E-mail: yvh@simula.no
Affiliations: Kalkulo AS
Homepage: http://www.simula.no/~yvh

Education

 

Yvon Halbwachs is a french citizen that received his Master Degree in Computer Sciences in 1994 at the Universite Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France. He is specialized in Geometric Modeling, Topologic representation and real-time animation rendering.

Profesional experience

 

Before moving to Norway in january 1997 he has worked for different companies in France like:

  • BRGM (The french geological survey) where he worked on the 3d modelisation of fault networks.
  • Matra Datavision : where he used the Cas.Cade framework to develop a geological modeler (in collaboration with Brgm), and later worked in the support division of the Business Unit
  • Arte (French-German TV Chanel): where he worked with the configuration of the master control panel.

 

He moved to Norway in January 1997 and worked for two norwegian companies before joining Kalkulo:

  • Sintef Applied Mathematics (Geometry group) where he worked as a research scientist on different projects in applied Geology (EU Omega project, Siscat) and for the mobile industry (implementing a 3d rendering library for low-cost mobiles).
  • SimSurgery, which he joined in october 2000. The company is developping a simulator for laparoscopic surgery. It uses the real instruments used by surgeons, and used 3d real time graphics to simulate organs. Yvon was part of the team that started the company and developped the kernel of the simulator. Later he was responsible of the whole system architecture of the application, and took part in some presentations at surgical congresses.

 

He joined Kalkulo in mai 2008 and have been working on 3d viziualization application related projects here (geologial and medical fields mainly).

Interests:

  • 3D Graphics, OpenGL, Shading Language, Real time animations.
  • C, C++, python, sql, java, matlab
  • Qt, Open Scene Graph, Coin, Open Inventor
  • Geologic modeling, Surgical simulation, Game developement.

Awards:

  • Won the European IST Prize from the European Commission IT prize 2006 (representing SimSurgery).

  • Won theBest Paper Award in the Journal Mathematical Geology in 1996. The title was: "Topological and geometric characterization of fault networks using 3-dimensional generalized maps".
  • Won a price from the AMOPA ("Association des Membres de l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques") in 1988 that helped him financing and developping a local network between Commodore 64 machines.
  • Was the author of three video games when he was 13 (Parachute for the Vic20 and Heli-Jump and Devil's Gallery for the Commodore 64).

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