Dr. Bertel received his M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science and computer imagery from the University of Rennes 1 (France) in 2000 and 2003, respectively. While at the University of Rennes 1, he authored a multi-plaform software for France Telecom R&D to render and animate 3D talking characters at an interactive rate, with synchronization between animation and speech.

Currently François is involved in the ParaView project. His research interests include visualization algorithms and improvement of design methodologies.

Publications

William J. Schroeder, François Bertel, Mathieu Malaterre, David Thompson, Philippe P. Pébay, Robert O'Bara and Saurabh Tendulkar, Methods and Framework for Visualizing Higher-Order Finite Elements, In IEEE Transactions On Visualization And Computer Graphics, Volume 12, Number 4, July/August 2006, pages 446--460.

William J. Schroeder, François Bertel, Mathieu Malaterre, David Thompson, Philippe P. Pébay, Robert O'Bara and Saurabh Tendulkar, Framework for Visualizing Higher-Order Basis Functions, In Proceedings of IEEE Visualization 2005, Minneapolis, MN, October 23-28, 2005, pages 43--50. (draft)

François Bertel, Humanoid animation in a conversational context involving verbal and non-verbal dialog, PhD thesis, University of Rennes 1, France, December 15 2003.