Frédérick Roy
Lead Of Simulation R&D
Seoul, South Korea
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Top SchoolFrédérick Roy is a lead simulation R&D engineer with 18 years of experience building medical simulation and image-guided surgery software, currently leading Simulation R&D at LN Robotics from Seoul. He combines deep software engineering and 3D rendering expertise with hands-on work in computer vision and augmented reality, developed through long-term roles at Inria and international stints like KIST. A core contributor and architect to the SOFA framework, he drove precision and numerical robustness improvements (introducing a generic SReal type and fixing deterministic collision phases) that underpin real-time multi-physics medical simulations. He has led projects spanning volumetric meshing, needle-penetration FEM models, AR tumor localization, and quality-driven processes aiming at professional/certifiable simulation software. Known for turning complex research prototypes into usable clinical tools, he also publishes an up-to-date technical resume and active GitHub that reflect his commitment to reproducible, long-lived open-source engineering.
18 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Master, Computer Science, Software Engineering at Université de Bordeaux
French, English, Korean, Spanish
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simulations9
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Github contributions (5)
sofa-framework/sofa
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
Real-time multi-physics simulation with an emphasis on medical simulation.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Software Architect
Back-end Developer & Software ArchitectContributions:1158 reviews, 19 commits, 1525 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Frédérick primarily focused on refactoring and enhancing the SOFA framework's engine components, with an emphasis on improving the handling of numerical data types and precision. They replaced explicit instantiations with a generic `SReal` type and addressed rounding errors specific to float data types within the grid topology. The user also contributed to the GUI and Multithreading plugins, resolving compile issues related to the `SReal=float` configuration and fixing a deterministic broad phase for the bounding tree in collision geometry.
simulationreal-timemedicalphysicscpp
sofa-framework/SofaRHI
Jul 2020 - Nov 2021
Rendering Hardware Interface for SOFA
Contributions:74 commits, 3 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 4 months
hardware-interfacerenderingsofa-frameworkpluginmetal
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