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Education

• 2016 – Arts & Métiers ParisTech, LSIS UMR CNRS 7296, France – Ph.D in Product Design
• 2012 – Cranfield University, School of Engineering, UK - M.Sc. in Computational Techniques in Engineering
• 2012 – ESTIA Institute of Technology, France – M.Eng in Computer-Aided Engineering
• 2006 – Toulouse 3 University, France – B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering for Aerospace Technology

Positions held

• Since 2018: Associate professor, Grenoble Institute of Technology - G-SCOP UMR CNRS
• 2018 - 2018: Assistant professor, Arts & Métiers ParisTech – LSIS UMR CNRS
• 2016 - 2017: Post-doctoral research fellow, Airbus Helicopters, Model-Based Systems Engineering Methods & Tools Department
• 2013 - 2016: Doctoral research fellow, Arts & Métiers ParisTech – LSIS UMR CNRS
• 2012 - 2013 : Research engineer, ISAE Supméca – LISMMA

Projects

• 2024-2027: ANR PEPR eNSEMBLE (Website)
  • - Description: The purpose of the PEPR eNSEMBLE (Future of Digital Collaboration) is to fundamentally redefine digital tools for collaboration. To achieve this goal, we need to invent mixed (i.e. physical and digital) collaboration spaces that do not simply replicate the physical world in virtual environments, enabling co-located and/or geographically distributed teams to work together smoothly and efficiently. As part of the PEPR eNSEMBLE, I obtained a PhD scholarship to understand the influence of visual metaphors on cognitive and transdisciplinary collaborative conceptual co-design activities. The aim of the thesis is threefold. First, the fundamental objective is to understand how interactive visual representations influence the cognitive and collaborative activities of stakeholders involved in co-design activities. Second, a methodological aim is to propose a protocol for evaluating visual metaphors and metrics for measuring cognitive and collaborative activities in a transdisciplinary computer-mediated co-design activity. Third, the final goal is to develop ergonomic recommendations that provide concrete, actionable guidance for designing and evaluating virtual metaphors and ease the adoption of interactive visualisation in collaborative conceptual design phases.
  • - Scientific coordinator: Romain Pinquié, Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)
  • - Funding:
    • - XXX 000 € by the French National Research Agency (ANR)
  • - Role:
  • - Ph.D co-supervisor
• 2024-2029: ANR LabCom Joint Research Lab MIMESIS (Website)
  • - Description: The iMmersive huMan-systEms InteractionS lab (MIMESIS'Lab) is a joint research laboratory between the G-SCOP UMR CNRS Laboratory of Design, Optimisation and Production at the Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP-UGA) and the software editor SKYREAL. Our research tries to understand how humans represent and interact with different types of design information, and to develop natural and visually rich 3D human-computer interactions with the goal of advancing human-centred systems engineering. Short-term objectives include the development of new multi-modal collaborative modelling interfaces to explore and manage digital threads and to co-design architectures of engineered systems.
  • - Scientific coordinator: Romain Pinquié, Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)
  • - Funding:
    • - 363 000 € by the French National Research Agency (ANR)
    • - 56 000 € By Institut Carnot LSI in 2023-2024
  • - Role:
  • - Scientific coodinator
  • - Postdoctoral research fellows supervisor
  • - Ph.D co-supervisor
• 2023-2026: AI-Driven Engineering Assistance System (AIDEAS) (Website)
  • - Description: The objectives of the AIDEAS joint research project between the technological research institute Saint-Exupery and Grenoble Institute of Technology are twofold. First, it aims to fine-tune Large Language Models for tailoring a generative conversational AI to systems engineering activities. Second, the objective is to define methodological ergonomics guidelines for specifying, designing, implementing and evaluating interactions between a systems engineer and a conversational generative AI.
  • - Scientific coordinator: Romain Pinquié, Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)
  • - Funding: 546 749 € by the French Aeronautics and Space Research Foundation
  • - Role:
    • - Scientific coodinator
    • - Ph.D co-supervisor
• 2022-2026: MBSE for the Development of Drug-Device Combination Products (Website)
  • - Description: This action research project will integrate various methodological engineering design elements into a model-based systems engineering framework (process, method, modelling method, modelling language, modelling software) to support the Advanced Drug Delivery Systems division of Becton Dickinson Medical Pharmaceutical Systems in the development of future new MedTech drug-device combination products.
  • - Scientific coordinator: Romain Pinquié, Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)
  • - Funding: 120 000€ by Becton Dickinson – Medical Pharmaceutical Systems
  • - Role:
  • - Member of the scientific committee
  • - Member of the steering committee
  • - Postdoctoral research fellow supervisor
• 2021-2024: ANR EQUIPEX+ Continuum (Website)
  • - Description: The CONTINUUM project will create a collaborative research infrastructure of 30 platforms located throughout France, to advance interdisciplinary research based on interactions between computer science and the human and social sciences. Thanks to CONTINUUM, 37 research teams will develop cutting-edge research programs focusing on visualization, immersion, interaction and collaboration, as well as on human perception, cognition and behaviour in virtual/augmented reality.
  • - Scientific coordinator: Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, French National Research Council (CNRS)
  • - Funding: 13.6M€ by Investments of the Future national program
  • - Role:
  • - Member of the scientific committee
  • - Member of the technology transfer committee
  • - Member of the working group promoting education and professional training for XR
• 2021-2024: ANR PRC Coherence4D (Website)
  • - Description: The COHERENCE 4D project will develop a new paradigm of modelling, visualisation, interaction, and coherence maintenance of the digital twin interfaced with the physical twin. Thus, the maintenance of coherence will be done in four dimensions to take into account the spatio-temporal character of the evolutions: the digital twin modelled in three dimensions (3D) adapts to the temporal evolutions (4th dimension) of the physical twin.
  • - Scientific coordinator: Jean-Philippe Pernot, Arts et Métiers ParisTech
  • - Funding: 623 188€ by the French National Research Agency (ANR)
  • - Role:
  • - Scientific coordinator of the work package 5 “integration and validation”
  • - Ph.D co-supervisor
• 2021-2024: ANR JCJC ArchiTOOL (Website)
  • - Description: The project ArchiTOOL aims at inventing, prototyping, and evaluating an immersive and intelligent virtual environment for collaboratively designing the architecture of engineered systems. Instead of using domain-specific engineering software, the immersive and interactive environment will provide the architect with the modelling capabilities required to define the various views (operational, specification, functional, behavioural, structural, logic, safety, etc.) of a system architecture in a single virtual space before exporting each viewpoint in a standardised format that will enable domain-experts to continue with a detailed design. Moreover, the immersive environment will include a cognitive agent to support the system architect with intelligent capabilities: model verification, context-aware recommendation of rules, identification and automation of modelling routines.
  • - Scientific coordinator: Romain Pinquié, Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)
  • - Funding: 172 502€ by the French National Research Agency (ANR)
  • - Role:
  • - Project coordinator
  • - Ph.D. co-supervisor
• 2020-...: A community-based ecosystem for improving validation practices in engineering research (Website)
  • - Description: This open science initiative supported by the French S.mart Industry 4.0 Special Interest Group aims at improving the quality of research applied to engineering, especially the validation of results by creating open benchmark exercises to make quantitative judgements and fair comparisons to the state of the art. The version-controlled and community-based open platform is a collaborative space gathering benchmarks of engineering theories, processes, methods and tools where researchers can engage in the building of a sustainable validation ecosystem. In the GitHub platform, a benchmark gathers a community of experts focusing on a specific research problem and encourages the members of the community to: 1) Build empirical databases that store qualitative and quantitative research results, 2) Accumulate a sufficient number of similar studies to draw sound conclusions, 3) Make the state-of-the-art of a research field publicly available, 4) Dynamically collect new theories, methods and tools, 5) Provide a fair comparison of solutions in an environment equal to all participants and by covering the whole spectrum of interesting test cases, 6) Give industry partners the confidence that the theories, methods and tools are ready to be deployed and add value to their operations, 7) Document the outcome of benchmarking such that the experiments performed are repeatable, 8) Produce usable results with limited time and budget, 9) Know “what works, for whom, under which circumstances, 10) Pick up an existing method or tool to improve it, etc. In a nutshell, a benchmark should enable researchers and industrialists to rapidly learn the essence of a desired field of knowledge with an interest in finding its leading-edge.
  • - Animator: Romain Pinquié, Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)
  • - Funding: None
  • - Role:
  • - Animator
  • - Creator and maintainer of the GitHub platform
• 2019-2022: An immersive multi-view virtual environment for model-based design reviews (Website)
  • - Description: This project aimed at inventing a new immersive virtual environment for reviewing model-centric designs. A 3D graph enables end-users to explore the digital threads captured in a graph-oriented database that federates data extracted from a set of native models representing viewpoints (functional, logical, behavioural, structural, etc.) on the system-of-interest.
  • - Scientific coordinator: Romain Pinquié
  • - Funding: 130 000 € by the Grenoble Alpes University and Persyval LabEx
  • - Role:
  • - Project coordinator
  • - Ph.D. co-supervisor
• 2019-2022: Horizon 2020 “Open!Next” (Website)
  • - Description: OPEN!NEXT enables SMEs to engage in company-community collaboration for means of co-development and market exploitation of Open Source Hardware (OSH) products and related services. OPEN!NEXT builds upon the vision that SMEs are the best placed to release the formidable potential of OSH in terms of product innovation and business incubation. The project aims to establish a company-community ecosystem, facilitate the engagement of SMEs in efficient collaboration with OSH communities and open up new avenues for value creation.
  • - Scientific coordinator: Robert Mies, Technische Universitat Berlin
  • - Funding: 5,8M€ by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
  • - Role:
  • - Member of the steering committee
  • - Postdoctoral research fellow co-supervisor

Students

Ghislain Mugisha (2024-2027)
• - Supervisors: Pinquié (INPG) 50% - Loup-Escande (UPJV) 50 %
• - PhD Thesis title: Understanding the influence of visual metaphors on cognitive and transdisciplinary collaborative conceptual co-design activities
• - Doctoral school: I-MEP², Université Grenoble Alpes
• - Funding: PEPR eNSEMBLE
Sergio Camilo Medina Galvis (2024-2027)
• - Supervisors: Pinquié (INPG) 70% - Noël (INPG) 30 %
• - PhD Thesis title: Exploring the potential of the Industrial Metaverse in Systems Architecting: hope beyond the hype?
• - Doctoral school: I-MEP², Université Grenoble Alpes
• - Funding: ANR LabCom MIMESIS
Emilie Perreau (2023-2026)
• - Supervisors: Pinquié (INPG) 50% - Masclet (INPG) 50 %
• - PhD Thesis title: Ergonomics guidelines for specifying, designing, and evaluating interactions between a generative conversational AI and a systems engineer
• - Doctoral school: I-MEP², Université Grenoble Alpes
• - Funding: French Aeronautics and Space Research Foundation
Valentin Jousseaume (2022-2025)
• - Supervisors: Pinquié (INPG) 30% - Segonds (ENSAM) 70 %
• - PhD Thesis title: Digital adoption of engineering software: application to product lifecycle management
• - Doctoral school: SMI 442, Arts et Métiers ParisTech
• - Funding: French National Research Agency CIFRE project – industrial partnership with KNOWMORE
Chao Zhang (2021-2025)
• - Supervisors: Pinquié (INPG) 30 % - Paulette (ENSAM) 30% - Pernot (ENSAM) 40%
• - PhD Thesis title: Deep learning for computer-aided reverse engineering of CAD models from 2D technical drawings
• - Doctoral school: SMI 442, Arts et Métiers ParisTech
• - Funding: China Scholarship Council
Insaf Nahri (2021-2024) -> Now research engineer at Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment
• - Supervisors: Pinquié (INPG) 30% - Véron (ENSAM) 70 %
• - PhD Thesis title: Natural Language Processing for extracting textual requirements from unstructured building specification documents and integration of formal requirements in a Building Information Modelling digital mock-up
• - Doctoral school: SMI 442, Arts et Métiers ParisTech
• - Funding: French National Research Agency CIFRE project – industrial partnership with CSTB
Abdelhadi Lammini (2021-2024) -> Resigned
• - Supervisors: Pinquié (INPG) 40 % - Foucault (INPG) 40% - Noël (INPG) 20%
• - PhD Thesis title: Mixed Reality for maintaining the geometrical coherence of a Digital Twin
• - Doctoral school: I-MEP², Université Grenoble Alpes
• - Funding: French National Research Agency project – ANR PRC COHERENCE 4D
Haobo Wang (2021-2024) -> Now post-doctoral research fellow at G-SCOP UMR CNRS 5272
• - Supervisors: Pinquié (INPG) 75 % - Noël (INPG) 25 %
• - PhD Thesis title: An immersive virtual environment for the human-centric co-design of model-based system architectures
• - Doctoral school: I-MEP², Université Grenoble Alpes
• - Funding: FFrench National Research Agency project – ANR JCJC ArchiTOOL
Victor Romero (2019-2022) -> Now assistant professor at IMT Mines Alpes
• - Supervisors: Pinquié (INPG) 50 % - Noël (INPG) 50 %
• - PhD Thesis title: An immersive multi-view virtual environment for model-based design reviews - PhD manuscript
• - Doctoral school: I-MEP², Grenoble Alpes University
• - Funding: Scholarship from the I-MEP² doctoral school of Grenoble Alpes University
Armand Huet (2018-2022) -> Now experienced solution engineering at Capgemini Engineering
• - Supervisors: Pinquié (INPG) 30 % - Véron (ENSAM) 30 % - Segonds (ENSAM) 40 %
• - PhD Thesis title: A context-aware cognitive design assistant - PhD manuscript
• - Doctoral school: SMI 442, Arts et Métiers ParisTech
• - Funding: Industrial partnership with Capgemini

Scientific duties

• Participating in or organising workshops:
  • - Digital Twin Contest chair, Int. Conf. on Product Lifecycle Management, 2025, Sevilla, Spain
  • - Digital Twin Contest chair, Int. Conf. on Product Lifecycle Management, 2024, Bangkok, Thailand
  • - Workshop co-chair, “Design Research Quality”, Design Society, 18th International Design Conference, Dubrovnik-Cavtat, Croatia, May 20-24, 2024
  • - Workshop speaker, “Co-design of a community-based ecosystem to improve validation practices in engineering research”, S.mart Special Interest Group in Industry 4.0, Carry le Rouet, France, April 2023
  • - Workshop coordinator and speaker, “Advanced visualisation and interaction for Model-Based Systems Engineering”, INCOSE French Chapter, Grenoble, France, March 2023
  • - Workshop speaker, “Research benchmarks in systems engineering: Application to the activities of early validation and verification”, French-Academia forum of the INCOSE French Chapter, Toulouse, France, December 2022
  • - Scientific coordinator, Int. Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, Grenoble, France, July 2022
  • - Organiser of the monthly scientific seminars and the annual scientific writing workshop for the integrated design research department (3 research teams) of G-SCOP laboratory since 2018
• Membership of committees, commissions, boards, or similar:
  • - Co-chair Design Society Special Interest Group “Design Research Quality” since 2024
  • - Scientific committee of the INCOSE Human Systems Integration (HSI) International Conference since 2024
  • - Scientific committee of the International Conference on Research Into Design since 2024
  • - Scientific committee member of Systems.Manufacturing.Academics.Resources.Technologies (S.mart) national special interest group since 2023
  • - Elected board member of the G-SCOP UMR 5272 laboratory since 2023
  • - Scientific committee of the International Design Conference since 2020
  • - Scientific committee of the International Conference on Engineering Design since 2019
  • - Elected scientific committee member of the International Federation for Information Processing WG 5.1 since 2017
• Chair at international conferences:
  • - Chair, VR-enhanced design session, Int. Conf. on Engineering Design (ICED), 2023, Bordeaux, France
  • - Chair, Frameworks for project and service development session, Int. Conf. on Product Lifecycle Management, 2023, Montreal, Canada
  • - Chair, Opening keynote, Int. Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, 2022, Grenoble, France
• Review of papers for journals:
  • - International Journal of Design Science
  • - International Journal of Computers in Industry
  • - International Journal of Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications
  • - International Journal of Computer-Aided Design and Appplication
• Review of papers for international conferences:
  • - International Conference on Research Into Design
  • - International Conference on Engineering Design
  • - International Design Conference
  • - International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management
  • - International CAD Conference
  • - INCOSE International Symposium
• Review of sumbmissions to call of the French National Research Agency:
  • - Generic call
  • - Industrial Chairs
  • - Action research
• Special interest groups
  • - Contributor, Design Society, Health Systems Design SIG.
  • - Contributor, INCOSE French Chapter, Model-Based Systems Engineering SIG.
  • - Co-chair, INCOSE French Chapter, Local Chapter Auvergne-Rhône Alpes SIG.
  • - Contributor, Design Society, Design Process SIG.
  • - Founder, Benchmarks for the validation of engineering design research SIG. (Website)

  Publications