Pierre Bénard
Assistant Professor at Université de Bordeaux
Greater Bordeaux Metropolitan Area France
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Top SchoolPierre Bénard is an assistant professor at Université de Bordeaux with 13 years of experience specializing in expressive and non-photorealistic rendering within computer graphics. His career blends academic research and industry exposure, including a post-doc at the University of Toronto and a post-doctoral internship at Pixar, informing both theoretical advances and practical stylization techniques for animation. He completed a PhD at Université de Grenoble focused on texture-based animation stylization and has collaborated internationally, notably as a visiting researcher at Princeton. Pierre’s work sits at the intersection of artistic expression and algorithmic rigor, producing methods that make animated content more expressive without sacrificing computational feasibility. Based in the Greater Bordeaux area, he combines deep academic roots with industry-relevant perspective, often exploring how perceptual insights can drive novel NPR algorithms.
13 years of coding experience
master, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, master, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at National School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of GrenobleCycle Préparatoire Polytechnique de GrenoblePhD, Computer Graphics, PhD, Computer Graphics at Université de Grenoble
French, English, German
Github Skills (47)
mongodb10
mysql9
mariadb9
postgresql9
query-builder9
cockroachdb9
prisma9
javascript9
sqlite9
mssql9
repr9
orm9
nodejs9
sql-server9
database9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
benardp/qrtsc
Jun 2018 - Aug 2020
Real-time line drawings from 3D models. Port of rtsc to Qt.
Contributions:1 release, 5 commits, 5 pushes in 2 years 2 months
3d-modelsqt5drawingsreal-time
benardp/Radium-Engine
Oct 2019 - Sep 2021
Research 3D Engine for rendering, animation and processing
Contributions:11 PRs, 15 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
rendering-engineanimation3d-enginerenderingopengl
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