Marie-Paule Cani

Marie-Paule Cani is a Professor of Computer Science at École Polytechnique (since May 2017), on leave from Grenoble INP and Inria. She leads the STREAM team at the LIX laboratory (CNRS, École Polytechnique) and collaborates externally with the IMAGINE team at Inria. Her research focuses on advancing intuitive methods for creating 3D shapes and virtual worlds, emphasizing user control and model-based knowledge.

Education:

• 1987: M.Sc. in Computer Science, École Normale Supérieure & University Paris XI
• 1990: Ph.D. in Computer Graphics, University Paris XI (advisor: Claude Puech)
• 1995: Habilitation in Computer Science, Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble

Research Interests: Her work spans shape modeling, computer animation, and procedural modeling. She pioneered methods such as implicit surfaces, physically-based animation, and sketch-based interfaces. Recent projects include combining procedural models with intuitive user interactions to streamline 3D content creation.

Awards & Recognition:

• ERC Advanced Grant (2011) for the EXPRESSIVE project
• 2011 Eurographics Technical Contributions Award
• 2012 CNRS Silver Medal
• 2013 Election to Academia Europaea

Leadership & Service: She created and led the STREAM (2017–present), IMAGINE (2011–2016), and ÉV@NCE (2003–2010) research teams. She has served as President of Eurographics (2017–present), Technical Paper Chair of SIGGRAPH 2017, and on editorial boards of ACM Transactions on Graphics, Computer Graphics Forum, and others.

Labs & Teams: Active in the LIX laboratory and collaborates with Inria's IMAGINE team. Her work bridges academic research and industrial applications in computer graphics and animation.