Jérémie Allard
Biographical Sketch
INRIA Lille - Shaman Team
Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne
40, avenue Halley
59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq - FRANCE
Phone  +33 (0)3 62 53 15 73
Email  Jeremie.Allard@codrt.fr
Web  http://codrt.fr/allardj/
Research Interests
Scalable Interactive Simulations
High Performance Computing, Medical Simulation, Virtual Reality, Computer Graphics
Education
2002 – 2005 INPG – Grenoble, France
PhD in Computer Sciences
Advisor: Bruno Raffin
Subject: Interactive applications and distributed visualization: resource allocation and computation coordination
2001 – 2002 University of New Orleans – Louisiana, USA
M.S. Computer Sciences – student exchange program, DEA Université d'Orléans.
GPA: 4.0
1997 – 2001
 Université d’Orléans – Orléans, France
Maitrise Informatique (B.S. Computer Sciences)
Rank: 1 / 29
Research and Professional Experience
09/2007 – present Research Scientist.
Shaman Team, INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France.
http://www2.lifl.fr/GRAPHIX/
04/2006 – 07/2007 PostDoc Research Scientist.
Simulation Group, MGH/CIMIT, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
http://www.medicalsim.org/
01/2006 – 03/2006 PostDoc Research Scientist.
EVASION, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, Grenoble, France.
http://www-evasion.imag.fr/
10/2002 – 12/2005 Ph.D. Student.
MOAIS, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, Grenoble, France.
http://moais.imag.fr/
07/2003 Consulting.
VisionaiR 3D. Tilburg, The Netherlands.
http://www.visionair3d.com/
01/2002 – 07/2002 Research Assistant.
Visual Programming Group, CS Dept. University of New Orleans.
http://www.cs.uno.edu/
03/2001 – 06/2001 Research Internship.
Scalable High Performance Virtual Reality Project, LIFO, Université d'Orléans.
http://netjuggler.sourceforge.net/
Teaching Experience
10/2010 5rd Year Computer Science Master – University of Lille 1
High Performance Computing for medical simulation
10/2007 3rd Year Engineer School – Polytech'Lille
Algorithms for Parallel Systems – Multi-Core CPUs and GPUs
01/2005 Master 2 Research (M.S.) – Université d'Orléans
Parallel Virtual Reality
10/2002 – 10/2005
 Licence 1 (B.S.) – UPMF
Introduction to Computer Sciences
Research Projects
SOFA
2006 – present 		Simulation Open Framework Architecture
INRIA, MGH/CIMIT
Funded by INRIA, MGH, TATRC – US Department of Defense
http://www.sofa-framework.org/
PASSPORT
2008 – 2011 		PAtient Specific Simulation and PreOperative Realistic Training for liver surgery
IRCAD, INRIA, ETH, TUM, ICL, IZBI, UCL, STORZ, Inserm, U. Strasbourg
Funded by EU
http://www.passport-liver.eu/
Cyber-II
2003 – 2006 		Real-time Integration of a Person in a Virtual Environment with Interactions
INRIA, LIRIS
Funded by ACI «Masse de données» – French Department of Research
http://artis.imag.fr/Projects/Cyber-II/
Geobench
2002 – 2005
 Distributed Immersive Visualization and Haptic Interactions Applied to (Geo-)Scientific Data.
BRGM, CEA, INRIA, LIFO, TGS
Funded by RNTL – French Department of Research
Academic Advising
Ph.D. Students
Hadrien Courtecuisse ( 2008 - 2011) – New parallel architectures for interactive medical simulations – co-advisor (50%)
 Vincent Majorzyck ( 2010 - ) – Interactive blood flow simulation – co-advisor (50%)
Academic Activities
Journals
Reviewer : Medical Image Analysis (MedIA), Simulation in Healthcare, Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology, Microprocessors and Microsystems
Conferences
International Committee : International Committee of the Displays for the Near Future Symposium 2011
Program Committee : High Performance and Low Latency VR/AR Symposium 2010
Reviewing Committee : Workshop on Commodity Clusters for Virtual Reality (VR-Cluster'03)
Local Organizer : Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (EGPGV04)
Reviewer : SIGGRAPH 2011, IEEE ICRA 2011, VRIC 2010, CGI 2010, Eurographics 2009 & 2010, IEEE VR 2008 & 2010, IEEE Visualization 2009, ISBMS 2008, VRST 2008, TSCG 2005
Press Coverage
Cataract Simulation, European Research & Innovation Exhibition – TF1 (06/07/2008), Euronews (06/11/2008)
Grimage: Markerless 3D Interactions Demo, SIGGRAPH 2007 – LCI (12/18/2007), New Scientist, ZD Net, LifeStyleExtra
Publications
Book Chapters
Implicit FEM Solver on GPU for Interactive Deformation Simulation
Jérémie Allard, Hadrien Courtecuisse, François Faure
GPU Computing Gems Vol. 2, Chapter 21, NVIDIA/Elsevier - 2011 to appear
International Journals
Interactive Blood-Coil Simulation in Real-time during Aneurysm Embolization
Yiyi Wei, Stéphane Cotin, Jérémie Allard, Le Fang, Chunhong Pan, Songde Ma
Computers & Graphics - 2011 - Special issue on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine to appear
Volumetric Modeling and Interactive Cutting of Deformable Bodies
Lenka Jerabkova, Guillaume Bousquet, Sébastien Barbier, François Faure, Jérémie Allard
Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology 103, 2-3, pages 217 224 - December 2010 Special Issue on Soft Tissue Modelling
GPU-based Real-Time Soft Tissue Deformation with Cutting and Haptic Feedback
Hadrien Courtecuisse, Hoeryong Jung, Jérémie Allard, Christian Duriez, Doo Yong Lee, Stéphane Cotin
Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology 103, 2-3, pages 159 168 - December 2010 Special Issue on Soft Tissue Modelling
Volume Contact Constraints at Arbitrary Resolution
Jérémie Allard, François Faure, Hadrien Courtecuisse, Florent Falipou, Christian Duriez, Paul G. Kry
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2010) 29, 3 - August 2010 http://www.sofa-framework.org/projects/ldi
Modularity for Large Virtual Reality Applications
Jérémie Allard, Jean-Denis Lesage, Bruno Raffin
Presence : Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 19, 2, pages 142 161 - April 2010
Multi-Camera Real-Time 3D Modeling for Telepresence and Remote Collaboration
Benjamin Petit, Jean-Denis Lesage, Clément Ménier, Jérémie Allard, Jean-Sébastien Franco, Bruno Raffin, Edmond Boyer, François Faure
International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting 2010 - August 2009
International Conferences
Preconditioner-Based Contact Response and Application to Cataract Surgery
Hadrien Courtecuisse, Jérémie Allard, Christian Duriez, Stéphane Cotin
MICCAI 2011, Part 1, Toronto, Canada, LNCS 6891, pages 315-322 - September 2011 to appear
Implicit FEM and Fluid Coupling on GPU for Interactive Multiphysics Simulation
Jérémie Allard, Hadrien Courtecuisse, François Faure
SIGGRAPH Talks, Vancouver, Canada - August 2011
Computer-Based Training System for Cataract Surgery
Elodie Dumortier, Jérémie Dequidt, Stéphane Cotin, Christian Duriez, Jérémie Allard, Jean-Francois Rouland
3rd International ICST Conference on Electronic Healthcare for the 21st Century - December 2010
Asynchronous Preconditioners for Efficient Solving of Non-linear Deformations
Hadrien Courtecuisse, Jérémie Allard, Christian Duriez, Stéphane Cotin
Proceedings of Virtual Reality Interaction and Physical Simulation (VRIPHYS) - November 2010
Multi-GPU and Multi-CPU Parallelization for Interactive Physics Simulations
Everton Hermann, Bruno Raffin, François Faure, Thierry Gautier, Jérémie Allard
Euro-Par 2010, LNCS 6272, pages 235 246 - September 2010
High Fidelity Haptic Rendering for Deformable Objects Undergoing Topology Changes
Hoeryong Jung, Stéphane Cotin, Christian Duriez, Jérémie Allard, Doo Yong Lee
EuroHaptics 2010, LNCS 6191, pages 262 268 - July 2010
Computer-based Simulation of IOL Injection: Toward a Full Featured Cataract Surgery Training System
Nadia Boubchir, Stéphane Cotin, Christian Duriez, Jérémie Dequidt, Jérémie Allard, Jean-Francois Rouland
Meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO 2009) - October 2009
Toward Real-time Simulation of Blood-Coil Interaction during Aneurysm Embolization
Yiyi Wei, Stéphane Cotin, Le Fang, Jérémie Allard, Chunhong Pan, Songde Ma
Proceedings of the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), LNCS 5761, pages 198 205 - September 2009
Young Scientist Award
Suturing Simulation Based on Complementarity Constraints
Christophe Guébert, Christian Duriez, Stéphane Cotin, Jérémie Allard, Laurent Grisoni
Proceedings of SCA 2009 (poster) - August 2009
Parallel Dense Gauss-Seidel Algorithm on Many-Core Processors
Hadrien Courtecuisse, Jérémie Allard
High Performance Computation Conference (HPCC), pages 139 147 - June 2009
Fiber-Based Fracture Model for Simulating Soft Tissue Tearing
Jérémie Allard, Maud Marchal, Stéphane Cotin
Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR), pages 13 18 - January 2009
Towards a Framework for Assessing Deformable Models in Medical Simulation
Maud Marchal, Jérémie Allard, Christian Duriez, Stéphane Cotin
International Symposium on Computational Models for Biomedical Simulation, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), pages 176 184 - July 2008
Image-based Collision Detection and Response between Arbitrary Volumetric Objects
Francois Faure, Sébastien Barbier, Jérémie Allard
ACM Siggraph/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA), July 2008, Dublin, Ireland
Efficient nonlinear FEM for soft tissue modelling and its GPU implementation within the open source framework SOFA
Olivier Comas, Zeike Taylor, Jérémie Allard, Sébastien Ourselin, Stéphane Cotin, Josh Passenger
International Symposium on Computational Models for Biomedical Simulation (ISBMS'08), July 2008, London, UK
Towards a Framework for Assessing Deformable Models in Medical Simulation
Maud Marchal, Jérémie Allard, Christian Duriez, Stéphane Cotin
International Symposium on Computational Models for Biomedical Simulation (ISBMS'08), July 2008, London, UK
Real-time Modeling of Vascular Flow for Angiography Simulation
Xunley Wu, Jérémie Allard, Stéphane Cotin
MICCAI 2007, October 2007, Brisbane, Australia
EVE: Computer Based Endovascular Training System for Neuroradiology
Jim Rabinov, Stéphane Cotin, Jérémie Allard, Jérémie Dequidt, Julien Lenoir, Vincent Luboz, Paul Neumann, Xunlei Wu, Steven Dawson
ASNR 2007, June 2007, Chicago, Illinois, USA
SOFA – an Open Source Framework for Medical Simulation
Jérémie Allard, Stéphane Cotin, François Faure, Pierre-Jean Bensoussan, François Poyer, Christian Duriez, Hervé Delingette, Laurent Grisoni
Medecine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR15), February 2007, Long Beach, California, USA
Distributed Physical Based Simulation for Large VR Application
Jérémie Allard, Bruno Raffin
IEEE VR 2006, March 2006, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
The GrImage Platform : A Mixed Reality Environment for Interactions
Jérémie Allard, Jean-Sébastien Franco, Clément Ménier, Edmond Boyer, Bruno Raffin
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS'06), January 4-7 2006, New York, USA
A Shader-Based Distributed Rendering Framework
Jérémie Allard, Bruno Raffin
IEEE Visualization 2005, October 2005, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Running Large VR Applications on a PC Cluster: the FlowVR Experience
Jérémie Allard, Edmond Boyer, Clément Ménier, Bruno Raffin
IPT & EGVE Workshop 2005, October 2005, Aalborg, Denmark
FlowVR: a Middleware for Large Scale Virtual Reality Applications
Jérémie Allard, Valérie Gouranton, Loick Lecointre, Sébastien Limet, Emmanuel Melin, Bruno Raffin, Sophie Robert
Euro-Par 2004, August 2004, Pisa, Italia
Marker-less Real Time 3D Modeling for Virtual Reality
Jérémie Allard, Edmond Boyer, Jean-Sébastien Franco, Clément Ménier, Bruno Raffin
International Immersive Projection Technology Workshop (IPT) 2004, May 2004, Ames, Iowa, USA
Softgenlock: Active Stereo and Genlock for PC Cluster
Jérémie Allard, Valérie Gouranton, Guy Lamarque, Emmanuel Melin, Bruno Raffin
IPT/EGVE'03 Workshop, May 2003, Zurich, Switzerland
Jini Meets UPnP: An Architecture for Jini/UPnP Interoperability
Jérémie Allard, Vivek Chinta, Srivatsa Gundala, Golden G. Richard III
International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT 2003), January 2003, Orlando, Florida, USA
A User Level Framework for Ad hoc Routing
Jérémie Allard, Paul Gonin, Minoo Singh, Golden G. Richard III
IEEE International Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2002), November 2002, Tampa, Florida, USA
Net Juggler : Running VR Juggler with Multiple Displays on a Commodity Component Cluster
Jérémie Allard, Loïck Lecointre, Valérie Gouranton, Emmanuel Melin, Bruno Raffin
IEEE VR 2002, March 2002, Orlando, Florida, USA
Parallelizing Pre-rendering Computations on a Net Juggler PC Cluster
Jérémie Allard, Valérie Gouranton, Emmanuel Melin, Bruno Raffin
IPT 2002, March 2002, Orlando, Florida, USA
National Conferences
SOFA – a Modular yet Efficient Simulation Framework
François Faure, Jérémie Allard, Stéphane Cotin, Paul Newmann, Pierre-Jean Bensoussan, Christian Duriez, Hervé Delingette, Laurent Grisoni
SURGETICA 2007, September 2007, Chambery, France
FlowVR : A Framework for Distributed Virtual Reality Applications
Thomas Arcila, Jérémie Allard, Edmond Boyer, Clément Ménier, Bruno Raffin
Premières Journées de l'AFRV, November 2006, Rocquencourt, France
Tutorials and Demos
IEEE VR 2009 Tutorial on Interactive Physics Simulation
Jérémie Allard, François Faure, Erwin Coumans, Kenny Erleben, Richard Tonge
IEEE International Conference on Virtual Reality - March 2009
http://www.sofa-framework.org/tutorial-vr09
Grimage: Markerless 3D Interactions
Jérémie Allard, Clément Ménier, Bruno Raffin, Edmond Boyer, François Faure
SIGGRAPH 2007 Emerging Technologies, August 2007, San Diego, California, USA
MV Platform : A Real-Time Multi-Video Environment
Florian Geffray, Clément Ménier, Jean-Sébastien Franco, Jérémie Allard, Bruno Raffin, Edmond Boyer
IEEE VR 2006, March 2006, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
Coupling Parallel Simulation and Multi-display Visualization on a PC Cluster
Jérémie Allard, Bruno Raffin, Florence Zara
Euro-Par 2003, August 2003, Klagenfurt, Austria
Commodity Clusters for Immersive Projection Environments
Jérémie Allard, Marcio Calixto Cabral, Camille Goudeseune, Hank Kaczmarski, Bruno Raffin, Benjamin Schaeffer, Luciano Soares, Marcelo Knorich Zuffo
Course 18, SIGGRAPH 2003, August 2003, San Diego, California, USA
Thesis
FlowVR : calculs interactifs et visualisation sur grappe
Jérémie Allard. Advisor: Bruno Raffin
Ph.D. Thesis, Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, November 2005, Grenoble, France
Functional and Structural Recursion in Spreadsheet Languages
Jérémie Allard. Advisor: Markus Montigel
Master Thesis, University of New Orleans, August 2002, New Orleans, USA