Contact

octave.crespel@club.fr

About Me

I'm a French computer scientist, currently working for Inria, France's national institute for research in digital science and technology, in Grenoble. As a member of the ELAN team, my work focuses on the physical simulation of hair dynamics and the interactions of elasticity and friction.

I enjoy low-level programming and understanding what the code I write and use is doing behind the scenes. I try to embrace the handmade ethos in my work and personal projects.

When I'm not writing software, I like playing the drums, cooking, playing video games, reading among many other things.

Education

• (2018-2021) MSc (diplôme d'ingénieur) from École polytechnique in Paris. Majored in computer science (with a focus on computer graphics). Minored in biology, applied mathematics, and mechanics.
• (2021-2022) MSc from ENSIMAG, focused on computer graphics and applied mathematics.
• (2022-2023) MSIAM, MSc in Industrial and Applied Mathematics from the University of Grenoble.

Publications

• Contact detection between curved fibres: high order makes a difference.
  Presented at SIGGRAPH 2024.
  Octave Crespel*, Emile Hohnadel*, Thibaut Métivet and Florence Bertails-Descoubes.
  *Both authors contributed equally to this research.

CV

My résumé is available here.

Talks

• Faire l'X et être heureux quand même.
  A testimony and reflection about mental health I gave at my graduation ceremony in July 2023.
  Viewer discretion is advised : although it is important to me that this talk be publicly available, it contains personal elements. Watching it may alter your perception of me, especially if we are to have a purely professional relationship.