David Garcia

David Garcia serves as Head of the Research and Innovation Department at CESI South-East region, affiliated with the Digital Innovation Laboratory for Businesses and Learning to Support Territorial Competitiveness (LINEACT). His work focuses on industrial systems engineering, operational research, and numerical simulation with particular expertise in production systems modeling.

Dr. Garcia earned his Doctorate from Ecole Supérieure de Chimie, Physique Electronique de Lyon (ESCPE) with his 2002 thesis on polymer injection process optimization (awarded highest honors). He also holds an Advanced Study Diploma in IMAGE from Joseph-Fourier University - Dijon (1998, with honors) specializing in instrumentation and image computing.

His research spans production systems engineering, with evolving focus from fundamental polymer injection molding processes to contemporary applications in digital twin technology and Industry 4.0/5.0. Key interests include dynamic scheduling of flexible manufacturing systems, human-system interactions in production environments, and image processing for industrial applications. His work demonstrates a clear trajectory from material science fundamentals to advanced computational approaches for modern manufacturing challenges.

Analysis of his publication history reveals consistent contributions to polymer processing optimization that evolved toward digital manufacturing systems. His recent work focuses on digital twin implementation for micro learning factories, affordance characterization in industrial work environments using deep learning, and scheduling frameworks for Industry 5.0 contexts that balance human creativity with machine precision.

Dr. Garcia actively supervises research, currently guiding Sarah Ouarab's doctoral work on characterizing affordances in human cyber-physical production systems through multimodal perception of human-system interactions. He serves as Micro Learning Factory (MLF) platform referent and participates in thesis juries for related engineering disciplines.

As the regional coordinator for research and innovation activities at CESI South-East, he leads the LINEACT research team focusing on management and decision-making in production systems, human-system interactions, and educational innovation through project-based learning approaches across preparatory and engineering cycles.