Summary
Olivier Aubert is a research-focused software engineer and Maître de conférences associé with 22 years' experience blending knowledge engineering, digital humanities, and learning analytics to design annotation-rich systems for video and activity traces. Based in Nantes, he combines academic research and hands-on consulting—leading projects on hypervideo, audiovisual annotation, trace modelling and visualization, and open educational resources. His work bridges user-centered design and document engineering, delivering research prototypes, dashboards and tooling used in e-learning and museum/multimedia contexts. Notably, he has driven long-running initiatives like Advene and COCo and frequently translates research questions into practical annotation and visualization solutions.
22 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer science at Université de Rennes I
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer science, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer science at Télécom Bretagne -IMT Atlantique
French, English, German, Spanish, Esperanto