Professor Dr. Jean François Lalonde

Biography

Jean-François Lalonde, Ph.D., is a full professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering at Laval University and the assistant scientific director of the Institute of Intelligence and Data (IID). Before starting his teaching career in 2013, he was a post-doctoral researcher at Disney Research. He received his Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University in 2011. His research interests lie at the intersection of computer vision, computer graphics, and machine learning. He focuses particularly on how physical models can be combined with data-driven methods to better interpret, visualize, and synthesize the visual world. He is actively involved in transferring his research results to industry, as evidenced by his patents, collaborations with companies such as Adobe and Meta, and his role as a scientific consultant for several high-tech companies.

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