Olivier Couet
Applied Physicist At CERN
Geneva Metropolitan Area Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolOlivier Couet is an applied physicist and senior software engineer at CERN with over 35 years of experience building scientific visualization and data-analysis tools, and a PhD in Computer Science from Laboratoire d'Annecy le Vieux. He has led the graphics work package for the widely used ROOT framework since 2002, contributing key visualization features such as the TScatter class and color-scheme enhancements that improve large-scale scientific plotting. Comfortable across low-level languages (Assembly, FORTRAN, C/C++) and modern tooling (databases, web programming, neural networks), he bridges physics research and production-quality software engineering. Based in the Geneva area, he combines deep domain knowledge of particle-physics experiments with pragmatic engineering to make complex datasets explorable and reproducible. An understated strength is his long-term stewardship of core open-source infrastructure, ensuring backward compatibility while modernizing visualization capabilities.
20 years of coding experience
DEA, Computer Graphics and Images Computing, DEA, Computer Graphics and Images Computing at University of StrasbourgPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des ParticulesIngénieur Physicien, Computer Graphics, Ingénieur Physicien, Computer Graphics at Télécom Physique Strasbourg
English, French
Github Skills (10)
data-visualizations10
root-view10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
document-root10
linear-algebra9
data-science8
machine-learning4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
root-project/root
Oct 2005 - Jan 2023
The official repository for ROOT: analyzing, storing and visualizing big data, scientifically
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Data Scientist
Back-end Developer & Data ScientistContributions:710 reviews, 5296 commits, 1301 PRs in 17 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Olivier's commits primarily focused on improvements to the visualization aspects of the ROOT project, particularly with the implementation of the TScatter class. They added functionalities like drawing scatter plots, incorporating different color schemes, and adjusting the code for compatibility with the latest version of the software. Furthermore, contributions show a good understanding of data visualization and the structure of plots.
pythonroot-cernmathematicsc-plus-plusscientific-visualization
couet/root
Jun 2019 - Aug 2021
The official repository for ROOT: analyzing, storing and visualizing big data, scientifically
Contributions:374 pushes, 371 branches, 22 tags in 2 years 2 months
analyzingdata-analysispythondata-sciencestoring
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