Olivier Michel

Born January 24th, 1970.

Professional

1996: I got my PhD in computer science from the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France.
1996-2000: I had several postdoc positions at LAMI and LSA with Prof. J.D. Nicoud and Prof. R. Siegwart, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
1998, I founded Cyberbotics Ltd., a company developing Webots, a mobile robot simulation software. Since then, I have been working part time or full time for Cyberbotics.
In 2001, I raised venture capital and founded Gollian Interactive Ltd., a company developing simulation software for toys. The company failed after over one year of activity.
From April 2003 to March 2005, I worked part time at EPFL as a scientific collaborator of Prof. Auke Jan Ijspeert at the Biologically Inspired Robotics Group (BIRG) within the Logic Systems Lab (LSL).
From September 2003 to March 2005, I worked part time as a scientific collaborator of Prof. Alcherio Martinoli at the SWarm-Intelligent Systems Research Group (SWIS).
Now, I am working full time for Cyberbotics.

How to reach me

E-mail: Olivier.Michel(at)cyberbotics.com - PGP public key
Tel: +41 21 693 86 24
Address: Cyberbotics Ltd. - PSE C EPFL - 1015 Lausanne - Switzerland

Personal

I am married with Valérie and we have three kids: Guillaume, François and Anaïs. I live in Gollion, a nice village in the swiss countryside. My leasure time includes basket ball, swimming, video games, skiing, playing with kids, cooking, cinema, movie making, theatre, playing the guitar. If I had more time, I'd like to practice robot building, video game development, AI programming, house building and farming.

I like: originality, swiss fondue, robots and my family.

I don't like too much: mobile phones, sea food, politics and administrative tasks.