Vincent Acary
Technical Editor And Co-founder at MIAI Cluster IA
Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, France
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Top SchoolVincent Acary is a senior research scientist and technical editor with over two decades of experience specializing in nonsmooth dynamical systems, numerical methods, and computational mechanics. As Directeur de recherches at Inria and co-founder/technical editor of JTCAM, he bridges rigorous mathematical theory with practical simulation tools, notably contributing to the open-source Siconos platform. He coordinates European research efforts on nonsmooth dynamics and now helps steer AI-for-mechanics initiatives at MIAI, reflecting a move toward data-driven computational mechanics. Vincent’s work spans complementarity-based contact modeling, time-integration schemes for impacts and friction, and the development of software that makes these methods accessible to engineers and roboticists. He co-authored a foundational Springer book on numerical methods for nonsmooth systems, underscoring both his academic influence and commitment to reproducible computation. Based in Santiago and trained in mechanics and simulation, he combines deep theoretical insight with long-standing software and community-building practice.
21 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Ingénieur, Mécanique et Simulation, Ingénieur, Mécanique et Simulation at Centrale Méditerranée
Github Skills (43)
physics-engine10
simulation10
nonsmooth-dynamical-systems10
robotics10
kinematics10
python10
simulator10
collision-detection10
simulation-framework10
reinforcement-learning10
bullet-physics10
pybullet10
visual-effects10
scientific-computing10
modeling10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
FrictionalContactLibrary/fclib
Oct 2015 - Dec 2022
Frictional Contact Library of problems
Contributions:3 releases, 49 commits, 8 PRs in 7 years 2 months
data-structuresproblems
vacary/siconos-tutorials
Oct 2020 - Jun 2026
Tutorials and examples of simulations using the siconos platform
Contributions:31 pushes, 11 branches in 5 years 9 months
pythonsimulationssimulation
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