Simon Drouin
Associate Professor
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolSimon Drouin is an associate professor and software engineer with a decade of experience building high-performance graphics and imaging systems for medical and entertainment applications. He combines deep expertise in C++, Python, OpenGL/GLSL, VTK and Qt with a research background in computer vision to develop AR/VR interfaces for neurosurgical planning and guidance. His work spans stereoscopic animation, 2D/3D visualization and image-guided surgery systems—blending production-grade rendering pipelines with clinical-grade accuracy. A former postdoc at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard and long-time contributor at the Montreal Neurological Institute, he has repeatedly translated cutting-edge research into practical tools, including GPU-accelerated rendering rewrites and real-time tracking integrations. Notably, he pairs academic rigor with hands-on engineering, often optimizing shader pipelines and interactive toolchains that power both documentary visuals and surgical workflows.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)B.Eng., Computer Engineering, B.Eng., Computer Engineering at Polytechnique MontréalM.Sc., Computer Vision, M.Sc., Computer Vision at McGill University
Japanese
Github Skills (60)
ibis10
reproducible-research10
visualization10
3d-graphics10
open-source10
computer-graphics10
segmentation10
medical-imaging10
scientific-visualization10
data-visualization10
vtk10
image-processing9
qt9
volume-rendering9
neuroimaging9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
drouin-simon/Ibis
Dec 2016 - Jan 2022
Official repository of the Ibis Neuronav platform
Contributions:23 commits, 226 pushes, 146 branches in 5 years 2 months
deep-learningneural-networkibis
drouin-simon/OpenIGTLinkIO
Jun 2016 - Oct 2020
Library for interfacing to openigtlink/OpenIGTLink, dependent on VTK and Qt. Based on openigtlink/OpenIGTLinkIF
Contributions:2 PRs, 28 pushes, 11 branches in 4 years 5 months
openigtlinkqt5vtk
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