🚀 Julien Castet has led research activities at Immersion since 2012, with expertise in Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Music and Art. He is an active expert for the French National Research Agency and the European Commission, and recently joined the board of the Virtual Worlds Association, a European alliance for useful, open and human-centred virtual worlds.

👨‍🎓 He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science (specialisation in Cognition, Interaction, Learning and Creation) from Grenoble Alpes University and has been involved in European research since 2005, co-authoring 30+ scientific publications and coordinating multiple EU-funded projects.

👬 At Immersion, he leads a multidisciplinary team of 15 researchers, engineers and designers, inventing and prototyping cutting-edge XR solutions. More: immersion.fr/research-development | YouTube

More than 10 years working in the XR field.

Freelancer at XR Works, organizer of the “Rennes XR” meetups.

Dr. Frédérique Krupa, director of the Digital Design Lab at l’école de design Nantes Atlantique, is a UX designer and former design professor at Parsons School of Design, RISD, UofArts, and Paris College of Art, where she founded and chaired the Masters (MA & MFA) in Transdisciplinary New Media.

Her research focuses on establishing AI UX methods, a holistic, transdisciplinary and systemic approach to create fair, accountable and transparent machine learning data, algorithms and predictive models.

Frédérique KRUPA’s link to Laval Virtual dates back twenty years to her days at Virtools SA and Dassault Systèmes.