Stéphane Donikian
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- Golaem SAS
Bio:
SIGGRAPH 2014
Stéphane Donikian (fr.linkedin.com/in/stephanedonikian) defended its PhD thesis in computer sciences from University of Rennes 1 in 1992. He obtained an accreditation to direct researches (HDR) in 2004 from the University of Rennes 1. He was successively a researcher at CNRS and Inria, and then was appointed director of research at Inria in 2009. He founded the Bunraku research team in 2006, whose research topics were focused on virtual reality and virtual humans. Stéphane led this team of fifty people, with extensive academic and industrial worldwide collaborations. He left the responsibility for the team in July 2009 to found Golaem. He became the Golaem CTO in November 2009 and CEO in June 2010. He provides expertise to various national and European organizations in the areas of digital image, video game and defense. He was awarded the French national Inria / Dassault Systèmes innovation prize in 2011.