A (non-exhaustive) tribute to the researchers who have had a meaningful impact at some point in my journey.
Mentors
Besides being extremely competent researchers, they are fundamentally good people who have taught me a lot. Working with them has been such a pleasure and a blessing.
Scientific heroes
- Gabriel Peyré
- His “Oldies but goldies” Twitter series basically introduced me to all the topics I love today, I wouldn’t be where I am today without him.
- Keenan Crane
- The “Heat method” made me fall in love with Geometry Processing and differential geometry. The beauty of his papers, courses, and talks did the rest.
- Albert Chern
- As a math-lover, being able to write papers 10% as cool as his would make me happy for life.
Teachers
Teachers who were willing to spend precious time to answer my questions during my studies.
Math popularizers
A long time ago, I did not like math. Amazing teachers and math popularizers made me change my mind right before I went to university. I am forever grateful to them for that.
Inspiring researchers
People who consistently do amazing work.
- Mathieu Desbrun The literal GOAT
- Etienne Corman
- Mark Gillespie
- Yousuf Soliman
- Mohammad Sina Nabizadeh
- Silvia Sellán
Lab-mates
My nice, smart and (incredibly) funny friends at the “Bureau 41” who make each day of my PhD a joy.
- Clément Aralou
- Gautier Campagne
- Mattéo Clémot
- Lucas De Meyer
- Timon Deschamps
- Arthur Dumas
- Cyril Perosino
The Origami team PhD students are also wonderful people!
My favorite papers
A non-ordered and non-exhaustive list of papers that made me go “wow” or motivated me to learn something
- Implicit Minimal Surfaces for Bijective Correspondances Corman et al.
- Fluid Implicit Particles on Coadjoint Orbits Nabizadeh et al.
- Lipschitz Pruning Barbier et al.
- Going with the flow Soliman et al.
- Monte Carlo Geometry Processing Sawhney et al.
- The Heat Method for Distance Computation, Trivial Connections on Discrete Surfaces Crane et al.
- Repulsive Curves Yu et al.
- Computing Minimal Surfaces with Differential Forms Wang et al.
- Stochastic Poisson Surface Reconstruction Sellán et al.
- Notions of optimal transport and how to implement them in a computer Lévy et al.
- Convolutional Wasserstein Barycenters Solomon et al. (The figures in it almost single-handedly made me want to discover and learn Optimal Transport!)
- Generation of tubular and membranous shape textures with curvature functionals Anna Song