Senior Visualization Software Engineer, Swiss National Supercomputing Center, Switzerland
Jean Favre is a senior staff member at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), which he joined in 1995. He leads the centre’s Scientific Visualization Task within the Scientific Computing Unit. His career in graphics and visualization began in 1987 at the Tektronix Computer Graphics Research Labs. He holds a Doctor of Science degree from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at The George Washington University, where he received the Presidential Merit Fellowship. Jean contributes extensively to visualization efforts across the Swiss academic community, with a focus on parallel and large-scale computing and open-source visualization environments. He is an active contributor to the VisIt and ParaView applications. He has served the visualization community through paper reviews for leading IEEE journals, tutorials at major events including SIGGRAPH, IEEE VIS, ISC, and SC, and program committee roles for Eurographics and SC.
Associate Senior Researcher, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Japan
Takanori Haga is an associate senior researcher at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). He received his Ph.D. degree from Tohoku University in 2009. His research interest includes high-fidelity numerical simulation of multi-scale and multi-physics using heterogeneous HPC system.
Senior Researcher, CCSE, JAEA, Japan
Takuma Kawamura received his Ph.D. in Engineering (Electrical Engineering) from the Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan, in 2011. In the same year, he joined the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) as a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Computational Science and e-Systems (CCSE), where he became a fixed-term researcher in 2014 and a staff researcher in 2016. Since 2024, he has been a Senior Researcher at CCSE, JAEA. His research has consistently focused on particle-based visualization techniques for large-scale scientific simulations. At Kyoto University, he worked on the development of particle-based volume rendering methods, and at JAEA he has been engaged in visualization techniques for nuclear simulation data. His recent work concentrates on in-situ particle-based visualization and steering of large-scale simulations on supercomputers, as well as xR-based environments for interactive and collaborative exploration of nuclear CFD and related multivariate data. He has received several awards, including the Young Researchers Award of the Computational Science and Technology Division of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan in 2015 and Paper Awards from the Visualization Society of Japan in 2017 and 2024.
Research Scientist, Maison de la Simulation, France
Benoît Martin is a Research Scientist at Maison de la Simulation, a research laboratory affiliated with CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, and Université Versailles Saint-Quentin. He earned his PhD in distributed systems from Sorbonne Université in Paris, under the supervision of Marc Shapiro. His academic background includes a BSc and an Engineering degree from École Supérieure de Génie Informatique (ESGI) in 2012 and 2015, respectively, as well as an MSc from Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC) in 2015. Before pursuing his PhD, he worked as an engineer in high-performance computing and the fintech industry, and as a research engineer at Inria with the Aramis team. His current research focuses on in-situ analytics in high-performance computing, particularly addressing challenges related to distributed systems and programming models. His interests include Transactional Memory Models, Consistency Models for Shared Memory, Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs), and the Actor Model.
Director of Scientific Visualization, Kitware Europe, France
François Mazen is the Director for the Scientific Visualization team at Kitware Europe. Throughout his career, François has focused on developing software solutions for scientific communities from research to industry. This topic includes numerical simulation methods, performance, Artificial Intelligence and large software architectures. In 2008, François received his engineering degree at IFMA (French Institute for Advanced Mechanics) in Clermont-Ferrand, France, where he was nominated for TOP 10 students. The same year, he also received a Master of Science at Université Blaise Pascal (Clermont-Ferrand) where he specialized in Rigid Body. Before joining Kitware, his previous 13 years of experience included 4 years at Ansys as a Software Developer to customize the Ansys Workbench application for specific customer requirements. He also worked for more than 6 years at Siemens PLM as Project Leader and Software Architect, where he integrated Robot’s Path Planning Technology in large applications like Siemens NX, Dassault Catia and Tecnomatix Process Simulate. François is an open source enthusiast as he has been contributing to several open source softwares since 2007. Currently, he is an active member of the Debian Operating System development team. Since 2021 he has led Kitware’s European Scientific Visualization team, including team management, strategy, technical expertise, operational excellence and business development. His recent works include fostering usage in industry of in situ and in transit analysis with the ParaView Catalyst library.