Scholar
Stephane Cotin
Google Scholar ID: 7siqmQwAAAAJ
Research director, Inria
Citations & Impact
Citations
4,067
H-index
33
i10-index
89
Publications
20
Co-authors
70
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Contact
Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Author or co-author of over 200 scientific articles
- Inria-Thales Innovation Prize (2018)
- French Academy of Sciences Award (2018)
- Dirk Bartz Medical Prize at Eurographics (2015) for SOFA’s contribution to medical simulation
- Best Paper Award at ISMAR (2013) for image-guided simulation in hepatic surgery
- Young Scientist Award at MICCAI (2009) for real-time blood-coil interaction simulation
- Best Paper Award at VRIPHYS (2005) for catheter and guidewire simulation
- US Army’s Greatest Inventions Award (2005) for emergency training work
- CIMIT Career Award (2004)
- Edward M. Kennedy Award for Health Care Innovation (2003)
- Frequent keynote and invited speaker at international conferences and academies (e.g., French Academy of Sciences, Academy of Surgery, J.FIG, SMIT)
Research Experience
- Former research lead of the Simulation group at CIMIT in Cambridge, USA
- Former instructor at Harvard Medical School in Boston
- Worked as a research scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Lab (MERL) in Cambridge after Ph.D.
- Currently leads MIMESIS team in developing technologies at the intersection of imaging, robotics, medicine, and computer science
- Collaborates closely with clinicians to develop patient-specific biophysical modeling and data-driven simulation for real-time intra-operative guidance
- Collaborated with HelpMeSee foundation on surgical training, leading to the creation of startup InSimo
Background
- Research Director at Inria
- Leader of the MIMESIS team
- Main research interests in real-time physics-based simulation of soft tissues, fluids, medical devices, and imaging processes
- Focus on improving surgical training, planning, and image-guided therapy
- Initiated and developed the SOFA open-source simulation framework, now a reference in advanced simulation
- Co-founder and scientific advisor of three startups: InSimo, Twinical, and EVE
