Séverin Lemaignan
Chercheur Principal at IIIA-CSIC
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolSéverin Lemaignan is a Principal Research Scientist with 17 years of experience at the intersection of machine learning, cognitive science and social robotics, now co-leading the interdisciplinary SocialMinds lab at IIIA-CSIC in Barcelona. He has moved between academia and industry—from associate professorship and research fellow roles at Bristol Robotics Lab to heading Social Robotics and AI at PAL Robotics—bringing both scientific rigour and product-focused deployment experience. His work centers on artificial social cognition and socially assistive robots, combining cognitive architectures with ML to enable robots that understand and adapt to human social behaviour. A seasoned mentor and project lead, he has supervised students, managed interdisciplinary projects, and published original HRI research since his PhD work on cooperative multi-robot cognition. He also contributes hands-on engineering to open-source tooling, for example improving OpenGL-based viewers and pyassimp integration for 3D model exploration, reflecting a blend of low-level systems craft and high-level theory. Based in Barcelona, he bridges European robotics labs and industry to translate social-AI research into real-world robotic systems.
17 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Ingénierie, Master of Science (MSc) Ingénierie at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Artificial Intelligence - Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Artificial Intelligence - Robotics at Technical University of MunichLycée HocheMaster of Science (MSc) Ingénierie, Master of Science (MSc) Ingénierie at Arts et Métiers - École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et MétiersDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Artificial Intelligence - Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Artificial Intelligence - Robotics at Université de Toulouse / CNRS
English, German, French
Github Skills (14)
c-language10
assimp10
3d-graphics10
cpp10
shader10
cprogramming-language10
opengl10
cplus10
pygame10
python10
sdl10
fbx9
collada8
gltf7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
assimp/assimp
Nov 2012 - Jan 2019
The official Open-Asset-Importer-Library Repository. Loads 40+ 3D-file-formats into one unified and clean data structure.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Séverin appears to have contributed to the development of a new OpenGL-based viewer, demonstrating the integration of Pygame and SDL for interactive 3D model exploration within the context of the Assimp library. This involves setting up a shader-based rendering pipeline with keyboard and mouse controls, offering a modern OpenGL application starting point. Further contributions include simplifying the existing OpenGL viewer for educational purposes and making the import of `pyassimp` more straightforward.
pythonc-plus-plusobjective-cvolume-renderingfbx-exporter
severin-lemaignan/dialogs
Jun 2010 - Apr 2015
Contributions:5 commits in 4 years 11 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.