Meet the Team
Yohann Bearzi
Senior R&D Engineer
Kitware New York
Clifton Park, NY
Ph.D. in Geometry Processing
Université Claude Bernard in Lyon, France
M.S. in Geometry Processing
Université Claude Bernard in Lyon, France
M.S. in Engineering
CPE Lyon in France
Yohann Bearzi is a senior software engineer on Kitware’s Scientific Computing Team located in Clifton Park, New York. He implements filters and works on core functionalities in a couple of Kitware’s open source platforms, VTK and ParaView. In addition to his projects, Yohann also helps mentor new hires as part of Kitware’s onboarding process.
Prior to joining Kitware, Yohann interned at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute at the University of Utah. He focused on image processing, writing an algorithm to extract fibers from a CT scan of reinforced concrete. Yohann was also a research intern at LIRIS Computer Science Laboratory for Image Processing and Information Systems in Lyon, France. While there, he worked on point clouds and, more specifically, on how to compare the geometry of local point neighborhoods.
Yohann earned his Ph.D. and master’s degree in geometry processing from Université Claude Bernard in Lyon, France. He also received a master’s degree in engineering from CPE Lyon in France.
Awards
Honorable Mention Award for Wavejets: A Local Frequency Framework for Shape Details Amplification at Eurographics, 2018
Best Paper Award at AFIG Grenoble, 2016
Short-Term Feasibility Award presented during the Campus Creation Entrepreneurship Contest at the Université Claude Bernard in Lyon, France, 2012