Alain Chesnais

As the former president of ACM and ACM SIGGRAPH, and former Director of Engineering for Autodesk Maya (at the time Alias|wavefront), Alain brings significant domain expertise and technical experience in the field of 3D graphics to the team.

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Since Alias|wavefront, Alain has held senior management roles including as CTO at SceneCaster, which developed a 3D visualization platform for social media. Today, Alain is the co-founder of TrendSpottr which develops web services that do predictive analytics and identify real time trends in social media.

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Alain studied at l’Ecole Normale Supérieure de l’Enseignement Technique and l’Université de Paris VII and XI, where he earned a Maîtrise de Mathématiques, a Maîtrise de Structure Mathématique de l’Informatique, and a Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies in Computer Science.

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