Etienne de Sevin
PhD in Artificial Intelligence
Senior Research Engineer
Email:
etienne.de-sevin_A_u-bordeaux.fr
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Professional address:
Research Experiences
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2015: Senior Research Engineer Lab: SANPSY - Université de Bordeaux - CNRS, Bordeaux Research Project: PHENOVIRT (national) Subject: Decision Architecture for Embodied Conversational Agents 2013-2015: R&D Engineer Company: MASA Group, Paris Research Project: Octavia Project (national) Subject: Decision Architecture for Non-Player Characters |
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2010-2013:
Senior Research Fellow with Dr. Vincent
Corruble Lab: SMA Team - LIP6 - UPMC, Paris Research Project: Terra Dynamica Project (national) Subject: Decision Architecture for Autonomous Pedestrians |
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2008-2010:
Research Fellow with Pr. Catherine Pelachaud
Lab: Greta Team, CNRS-Telecom Paristech, Paris Research Project: SEMAINE Project (european) Subject: Decision Architecture for Embodied Conversational Agents |
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2007-2008:
Post-Doct Fellow with Dr. Lola Canamero
Lab: Emotion Modeling Lab, University of Hertfordshire, UK Research Project: HUMAINE Project (european) Subject: Decision Architecture for Affective Robots |
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2002-2006:
Research Assistant with Pr. Daniel Thalmann Lab: Virtual Reality Laboratory, EPFL, Switzerland Research Project: HUMAINE Project (european) Subject: Decision Architecture for Autonomous Virtual Humans |
Information about my Research
Assistant Professor Application (in French)
Microsoft Academic Research Page
PhD Student Supervisions :
Sabrina Campano (UPMC) :
COR-E : un modèle pour la simulation d’agents
affectifs fondé sur la théorie COR
(pdf)
Quentin Reynaud (UPMC/Thalès) :
A Hybrid and Flexible Agent Architecture for Urban
Simulations: Behavior Composition and Anticipation
issues (pdf) (link)
Interests :
Cognitive Architecture, Decision-Making, Autonomous Virtual Humans, Motivations, Emotions, Personality, Real-Time Simulation, Perception-Action Loop, Embodied Conversational Agents, Action Selection, Non-Player Characters, Serious Game, Behavior Trees, Cognitive Sciences.
Diplômes :
2006
Doctorat en Informatique, EPFL, Lausanne
2001 Mastère de réalité
virtuelle et interaction multimodale, mention
bien, EPFL, Lausanne
2000 Master (DESS) d'intégration
multimédia et infographie, mention
bien, Univ. Lyon 2
1999 Master (DEA) d’intelligence
artificielle (IARFA), mention
assez bien, Univ. Paris VI
1998 Maitrise en Sciences
Cognitives, mention
bien, Univ. Bordeaux II
1997 Licence en Sciences
Cognitives, mention
bien, Univ. Bordeaux II
1996 Deug de Biologie, mention
assez bien, Univ. Angers
Main Publications :
Smart Zones to create Ambience of Life
E. de Sevin, C. Chopinaud, C. Mars
Game AI Pro 2: Collected Wisdom of Game AI Professionals.
(link)
An Evaluation of a Computational Model for Affective Behaviors
S. Campano, E. de Sevin, V. Corruble and N. Sabouret
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS'13)
Saint Paul, USA
FlexMex: Flexible Multi-Expert Meta-Architecture for Virtual Agents
E. de Sevin, Q. Reynaud and V. Corruble
Advances in Cognitive Systems (ACS'12)
Palo Alto, USA
(pdf)
A Listener Model: Introducing Personality Traits
E. Bevacqua, E. de Sevin, S. Hyniewska, C. Pelachaud
Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces(JMUI)
Elisabeth André, Marc Cavazza and Catherine Pelachaud (Guest Editors)
Vol 6: 27-38
(pdf) (link)
Influence of Personality Traits on Backchannel Selection
E. de Sevin, S. Hyniewska and C. Pelachaud
Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA'10)
Philadelphia, USA
(pdf)
An Action Selection Architecture for Autonomous Virtual Humans in Persistent Worlds
E. de Sevin (PhD Thesis)
Dir. : Pr. Daniel Thalmann
VRLab EPFL
(pdf) (link) (slides) (video)
A motivational Model of Action Selection for Virtual Humans
E. de Sevin and D. Thalmann
Computer Graphics International (CGI'05)
IEEE Computer SocietyPress, New York, USA
(pdf)