Stephane Grabli

Work History

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  Research Scientist

  META

  August 2022 - Present

  Sausalito, California, United States
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  Principal R&D Engineer

  Industrial Light & Magic

  February 2021 - August 2022

  San Francisco Bay Area

  Lead for the Image-Based Capture Team, responsible for Layout and Facial Capture technology.
  
  Film and TV Credits:
  The Book of Boba Fett (2022), The Witcher (2022)
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  Senior R&D Engineer

  Industrial Light & Magic

  January 2016 - February 2021

  San Francisco Bay Area

  - Lead Engineer of the Flux system (on-set markerless facial performance capture system)
  - Facial Capture Supervisor (The Irishman, 2019)
  
  Film Credits:
  The Irishman (2019), Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018), Rogue One (2016).
  
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  R&D Engineer

  Industrial Light & Magic

  August 2008 - December 2015

  Contributed to the physically-based shading and lighting tools used at ILM for film production.
  
  Film Credits:
  
  Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), Jurassic World (2015), Strange Magic (2015), Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014), Noah (2014), Red Tails (2012), Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011), Rango (2011)
  
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  Software Engineer

  Auryn, Inc.

  October 2005 - August 2008

  Los Angeles, California, United States
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  PhD

  INRIA Rhone-Alpes

  September 2001 - April 2005

  Ph.D. thesis, Drawing-Based Stylized Rendering, at ARTIS/GRAVIR – INRIA in Grenoble, France, supervized by François Sillion.
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  Visiting Researcher

  MIT

  2002 - 2003
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  Software Engineer

  Dassault-Systemes

  March 1999 - August 2000

  Research and Development engineer at Dassault-Systèmes, the CAD/CAM leader company, within the CATIA 3D Graphics team. Development in C++ on Windows and UNIX.

• intern

  iMAGIS / GRAVIR-IMAG

  1998 - 1998