Stephane Cotin
Head Of The MIMESIS Team at InSimo
Strasbourg, Grand Est, France
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Top SchoolStephane Cotin is a senior research scientist and leader with 20 years of experience specializing in biomechanical and physics-based modeling for medical simulation, currently heading the MIMESIS team at Inria. He has driven translational research—from real-time patient-specific soft-tissue and device modeling to validated training and planning tools—while co-founding a medtech startup (InSimo) and leading national initiatives around the SOFA simulation framework. His career spans academic and industry roles in France and eight years in the US (Harvard, CIMIT, MERL), giving him a rare blend of rigorous applied mathematics (PhD) and hands-on commercialization experience. Known for building performant finite-element and contact models that run in real time, he pairs deep technical authorship with program and team management across international collaborations.
20 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master Computer Science, Master Computer Science at Université Bourgogne EuropePh.D. Applied Math and Computer Science, Ph.D. Applied Math and Computer Science at Université Côte d'Azur
French, English
Github Skills (8)
simulation10
medical10
physics9
sofa-framework9
cpp9
engine9
plugin1
testing1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sofa-framework/sofa
Jun 2006 - Nov 2018
Contributions:90 commits in 12 years 7 months
thomasmassari/sofa
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
physicsphysics-simulationmulti-physicssimulationsofa
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