I am a permanent researcher within the DataShape research group at INRIA, France.

I am currently a 1-year visiting professor within the Escola de Matemática Aplicada da Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV/EMAp) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

My research interests are in Computational Geometry and Topology, with a focus on:

• Algorithmic Quantum Topology: knots and 3-manifolds, quantum invariants & categorification, combinatorial and computational complexity (classical and quantum), interactions with topology, geometry, algebra.


• Topological Data Analysis: algorithms, persistent homology and generalization, discrete Morse theory, applications to geometry and topology, and data analysis.

I am one of the main creators of the C++ software library GUDHI for Topological Data Analysis; see the Software tab for more details and other coding projects.

I received my PhD in 2014 from the University of Nice and INRIA Sophia Antipolis-Méditerranée, under the supervision of Jean-Daniel Boissonnat. I worked from 2014 to 2017 as postdoctoral fellow within the School of Mathematics and Physics of the University of Queensland, in collaboration with Ben Burton. I started my current position at INRIA in 2018.

I received the Gilles Kahn PhD award in 2015, and an EATCS Best Paper Award at ESA in 2012.

Current Activities:

• PI of the ANR JCJC grant AlgoKnot (2020-2023).
  
• Co-Editor of the CGTA - Special Issue on Algorithmic Aspects of Computational and Applied Topology.
  
• Co-Director of the French GT GeoAlgo (2022-).
  
• Lecturer at MPRI (2018-) Computational Geometry Learning.

Current & Past Supervision:

• PhD student: Owen Rouillé (2018-2022) --> now postdoc fellow at Jussieu IMJ-PRG
  
• Postdoctoral Fellow: Kristóf Huszár (2020-2022) --> now postdoc fellow at ENS Lyon
  
• Graduate student: Isaac Ren (2021) --> now PhD student at KTH