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Pr. Jeremie Dequidt

Full Professor · Computer Science

University of Lille · Polytech Lille · Inria Defrost

Research Interests

  • Researcher in Interactive Simulation for Medicine / Soft Robotics
  • Teacher in Computer Science (Programming, Mixed Reality, Simulation)

Responsibilities

2023– Director, International Relations, Polytech Lille
2023– Co-animator, TS2: Souplesse & Déformation, CNRS GdR Robotique
2025– Leader, Control and scientific Computing, CRIStAL
2017–2022 Director, Embedded Systems Department, Polytech Lille
2010–2017 Coordinator, Communicating Systems Track, Polytech Lille
2016–2019 Coordinator, Cross-Disciplinary Courses, Polytech Lille
2021–2023 Member of the Panel, CE33: Interaction, Robotics, ANR

Awards & Distinctions

2026
Grant — Åsgard mobility program grant

"Research cooperation with norwegian research laboratories in robotics. Funded by the French Institute in Norway and Norwegian Research Council."

2018
Best Paper — Best Paper Award , Advanced Robotics

"Software toolkit for modeling, simulation, and control of soft robots"

2016
Best Paper — Best Paper Award , SIMPAR

"Framework for online simulation of soft robots with optimization-based inverse model"

2015
Prize — Dirk Bartz Prize for Visual Computing in Medicine , Eurographics

Surgery Training, Planning and Guidance Using the SOFA Framework

2015
Grant — Recipient of the Young Researcher Funding

"Project IDeaS, 42 months duration with 175k€ budget. Acceptance Rate below 15%"

2015
Best Paper — Top Ranked AR/VR paper , TVCG presented at SIGGRAPH

"Impact of Soft Tissue Heterogeneity on Augmented Reality for Liver Surgery"

2014
Best Paper — Top Ranked AR/VR paper , TVCG presented at SIGGRAPH Asia

"Image-guided Simulation of Heterogeneous Tissue Deformation For Augmented Reality during Hepatic Surgery"

2013
Best Paper — Runner-up Best Paper Award , ISMAR

"Image-guided Simulation of Heterogeneous Tissue Deformation For Augmented Reality during Hepatic Surgery"

Research Projects

Adagio — Continous Robots for Endoscopy 2025–2029 191 k€

Work Package Leader

Research project on interactive robotics for healthcare applications

IRE — Intelligent Robotic Endoscopes 2024–2027 670 k€

Work Package Leader

Research project on interactive robotics for healthcare applications

PEPR AS4 — PEPR O2R / AS4 2024–2031 2.4 m€

Coordinator

National research program on robotics for societal applications

SoftRobots — Soft Robotics Framework

Supervisor

Open-source framework for soft robotics simulation

BISTRO — Brain-Interfaced SofT RObotics and Academic Collaboration 2025–2026

Prime Investigator

NeurotechEU project to increase academic cooperation with collaborative hybrid learning and research

COMOROS 2017–2018 497 k€

Researcher

SOROS — Bridging SOFA and ROS softwares 2016–2018 200 k€

Coordinator

Inria project to support research and development of simulation software to help design / simulate and control soft robots

CoBra — CoBra Brachytherapy 2018–2022 3.8 m€

Coordinator

Aims to improve quality of both diagnosis and treatment of localized cancers, by developing a new medical robot prototype for brachytherapy and biopsy under guidance of MRI.

IDeaS — Image-Driven Simulations 2011–2015 175 k€

Coordinator

Publications 77 total · 12/17 journal · 22/52 conference (selective) · 1960 citations · h-index 22 · i10-index 34

Journal Articles (12)

  1. Ducrocq, Julien Jean and Caron, Guillaume and Midavaine, Hervé and Duriez, Christian and Dequidt, Jeremie and Mouaddib, El Mustapha. "VisAdapt: Catadioptric Adaptive Camera for scenes of variable density of visual information". Applied optics, Vol. 62, No. 35, pp. 9207-9214, 2023. [URL][PDF]
  2. Schegg, Pierre and Menager, Etienne and Khairallah, Elie andMarchal, Damien and Dequidt, Jeremie and Preux, Philippe and Duriez, Christian. "SofaGym: An open platform for Reinforcement Learning based onSoft Robot simulations". Soft Robotics Journal, Vol. TBA, No. TBA, pp. TBA, 2022. [URL][DOI]
  3. Zhang, Zhongkai and Petit, Antoine and Dequidt, Jeremie and Duriez, Christian. "Calibration and External Force Sensing for Soft Robots using an RGB-D Camera". IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 2356--2363, 2019. [URL][DOI]
  4. Zhang, Zhongkai and Dequidt, Jeremie and Back, Junghwan and Liu, Hongbin and Duriez, Christian. "Motion Control of Cable-Driven Continuum Catheter Robot through Contacts". IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 1852--1859, 2019. [URL][DOI]
  5. Zhang, Zhongkai and Dequidt, Jeremie and Duriez, Christian. "Vision-based Sensing of External Force for Soft Robots using Finite Element Model". IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 1529--1536, 2018. [URL][DOI]
  6. Kerrien, Erwan and Yureidini, Ahmed and Dequidt, Jeremie and Duriez, Christian and Anxionnat, Rene and Cotin, Stephane. "Blood vessel modeling for interactive simulation of interventional neuroradiology procedures". Medical image analysis, Vol. 35, pp. 685--698, 2017.
  7. Coevoet, Eulalie and Morales-Bieze, Thor and Largilliere, Frederick and Zhang, Zhongkai and Thieffry, Maxime and Sanz-Lopez, Mario and Carrez, Bruno and Marchal, Damien and Goury, Olivier and Dequidt, Jeremie and Duriez, Christian. "Software toolkit for modeling, simulation, and control of soft robots". Advanced Robotics, Vol. 31, No. 22, pp. 1208-1224, 2017. [URL][DOI]
  8. Haouchine, Nazim and Cotin, Stephane and Peterlik, Igor and Dequidt, Jeremie and Sanz Lopez, Mario and Kerrien, Erwan and Berger, Marie-Odile. "Impact of Soft Tissue Heterogeneity on Augmented Reality for Liver Surgery". IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 584-597, 2015. [URL][DOI]
  9. Haouchine, Nazim and Dequidt, Jeremie and Berger, Marie-Odile and Cotin, Stephane. "Monocular 3D Reconstruction and Augmentation of Elastic Surfaces with Self-Occlusion Handling". IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 21, No. 12, pp. 1363-1376, 2015. [URL][DOI]
  10. Coevoet, Eulalie and Reynaert, Nick and Lartigau, Eric and Schiappacasse, Luis and Dequidt, Jeremie and Duriez, Christian. "Registration by interactive inverse simulation: application for adaptive radiotherapy". International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, Vol. 10, No. 8, pp. 1193--1200, 2015. [URL][DOI]
  11. Dequidt, Jeremie and Courtecuisse, Hadrien and Comas, Olivier and Allard, Jeremie and Duriez, Christian and Cotin, Stephane and Dumortier, Elodie and Wavreille, Olivier and Rouland, Jean-Francois. "Computer-based training system for cataract surgery". Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, Vol. 16, pp. 1--15, 2013. [URL][DOI]
  12. Dequidt, Jeremie and Marchal, Damien and Grisoni, Laurent. "Time-Critical Animation of Deformable Solids". Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, Vol. 16, pp. 177--187, 2005. [URL][DOI]

+ 5 additional journal articles in non-selective venues

Conference Papers (22)

  1. Tian, Sizhe and Adagolodjo, Yinoussa and Dequidt, Jeremie. "Active Prostate Phantom with Multiple Chambers". 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025.
  2. Zhang, Zhongkai and Petit, Antoine and Dequidt, Jeremie and Duriez, Christian. "Calibration and External Force Sensing for Soft Robots using an RGB-D Camera". IEEE ICRA, 2019.
  3. Zhang, Zhongkai and Dequidt, Jeremie and Back, Junghwan and Liu,Hongbin and Duriez, Christian. "Motion Control of Cable-Driven Continuum Catheter Robot through Contacts". IEEE ICRA, 2019.
  4. Zhang, Zhongkai and Dequidt, Jeremie and Duriez, Christian. "Vision-based Sensing of External Force for Soft Robots using Finite Element Model". IEEE ICRA, 2018. [URL]
  5. Zhang, Zhongkai and Morales Bieze, Thor Enrique and Dequidt, Jeremie and Kruszewski, Alexandre and Duriez, Christian. "Visual Servoing Control of Soft Robots Based on Finite Element Model". IEEE/RSJ IROS, 2017. [URL]
  6. Zhang, Zhongkai and Dequidt, Jeremie and Kruszewski, Alexandre and Largilliere, Frederick and Duriez, Christian. "Kinematic Modeling and Observer Based Control of Soft Robot using Real-Time Finite Element Method". IEEE/RSJ IROS, 2016. [URL]
  7. Goury, Olivier and Nguyen, Yann and Torres, Renato and Dequidt, Jeremie and Duriez, Christian. "Numerical Simulation of Cochlear-Implant Surgery: Towards Patient-Specific Planning". MICCAI, 2016.
  8. Largilliere, Frederick and Verona, Valerian and Coevoet, Eulalie and Sanz-Lopez, Mario and Dequidt, Jeremie and Duriez, Christian. "Real-time control of soft-robots using asynchronous finite element modeling". IEEE ICRA, 2015. [URL][DOI]
  9. Coevoet, Eulalie and Reynaert, Nick and Lartigau, Eric and Schiappacasse, Luis and Dequidt, Jeremie and Duriez, Christian. "Introducing interactive inverse FEM simulation and its application for adaptive radiotherapy". MICCAI, 2014. [URL]
  10. Haouchine, Nazim and Dequidt, Jeremie and Berger, Marie-Odile and Cotin, Stephane. "Single View Augmentation of 3D Elastic Objects". IEEE ISMAR, 2014. [URL][DOI]
  11. Haouchine, Nazim and Dequidt, Jeremie and Peterlik, Igor and Kerrien, Erwan and Berger, Marie-Odile and Cotin, Stephane. "Towards an accurate tracking of liver tumors for augmented reality in robotic assisted surgery". IEEE ICRA, 2014. [URL][DOI]
  12. Haouchine, Nazim and Dequidt, Jeremie and Berger, Marie-Odile and Cotin, Stephane. "Deformation-based Augmented Reality for Hepatic Surgery". MMVR, 2013. [URL][DOI]
  13. Dervaux, Francois and Peterlik, Igor and Dequidt, Jeremie and Cotin, Jeremie and Duriez Christian. "Haptic Rendering of Interacting Dynamic Deformable Objects Simulated in Real-Time at Different Frequencies". IEEE/RSJ IROS, 2013. [URL][DOI]
  14. Haouchine, Nazim and Dequidt, Jeremie and Peterlik, Igor and Kerrien, Erwan and Berger, Marie-Odile and Cotin, Stephane. "Image-guided Simulation of Heterogeneous Tissue Deformation For Augmented Reality during Hepatic Surgery". IEEE ISMAR, 2013. [URL][DOI]
  15. Lecomte-Grosbras, Pauline and Nassirou - Diallo, Mouhamadou and Witz, Jean-Francois and Marchal, Damien and Dequidt, Jeremie and Cotin, Stephane and Cosson, Michel and Duriez, Christian and Brieu, Mathias. "Towards a better understanding of pelvic system disorders using numerical simulation". MICCAI, 2013. [URL]
  16. Selosse, David and Dequidt, Jeremie and Grisoni, Laurent. "A Sketch-Based Interface for Annotation of 3D Brain Vascular Reconstructions". CGI, 2012. [URL]
  17. Yureidini, Ahmed and Kerrien, Erwan and Dequidt, Jeremie and Duriez, Christian and Cotin, Stephane. "Local Implicit Modeling of Blood Vessels for Interactive Simulation". MICCAI, 2012. [URL][DOI]
  18. Bilger, Alexandre and Dequidt, Jeremie and Duriez, Christian and Cotin, Stephane. "Biomechanical simulation of electrode migration for deep brain stimulation". MICCAI, 2011. [URL][DOI]
  19. Dequidt, Jeremie and Duriez, Christian and Cotin, Stephane and Kerrien, Erwan. "Towards interactive planning of coil embolization in brain aneurysms". MICCAI, 2009. [URL][DOI]
  20. Dequidt, Jeremie and Marchal, Maud and Duriez, Christian and Kerien, Erwan and Cotin, Stephane. "Interactive simulation of embolization coils: Modeling and experimental validation". MICCAI, 2008. [URL][DOI]
  21. Dequidt, Jeremie and Lenoir, Julien and Cotin, Stephane. "Interactive contacts resolution using smooth surface representation". MICCAI, 2007. [URL][DOI]
  22. Dequidt, Jeremie and Grisoni, Laurent and Chaillou, Christophe. "Collaborative interactive physical simulation". Graphite, 2005. [URL][DOI]

+ 30 additional conference papers in non-selective venues

Book Chapters (2)

  1. Courtecuisse, Hadrien and Dequidt, Jeremie. "Augmented reality biomechanical simulations for pelvic conditions diagnoses". Biomechanics of the Female Reproductive System: Breast and Pelvic Organs, 2023. [DOI]
  2. Wei, Yiyi and Cotin, Stephane and Dequidt, Jeremie and Duriez, Christian and Allard, Jeremie and Kerrien, Erwan. "A (Near) Real-Time Simulation Method of Aneurysm Coil Embolization". Aneurysm, 2012. [URL][DOI]

Other (6)

  1. Dequidt, Jeremie. "Data-Driven Interactive Simulations for Clinical and Robotic Applications". University of Lille, 2023.
  2. Duriez, Christian and Coevoet, Eulalie and Marchal, Damien and Vanneste, Félix and Goury, Olivier and Dequidt, Jérémie. "SoftRobots". Inria, Université de Lille, CNRS, 2023.
  3. Selosse, David and Dequidt, Jeremie and Grisoni, Laurent. "A Sketch-Based Interface for Annotation of 3D Brain Vascular Reconstructions". , 2012.
  4. Dequidt, Jeremie. "Objets autonomes en simulation physique temps-réel". University of Lille 1, 2005.
  5. Dequidt, Jeremie and Grisoni, Laurent and Chaillou, Christophe. "Asynchronous Interactive Physical Simulation". , 2004.
  6. Dequidt, Jeremie. "Détection de collisions entre objets physiques autonomes". University of Lille 1, 2002.

Academic Positions

2025--now CO2 Theme Coordinator
2024--now TS2 Co-Coordinator
2023--now Full Professor
2023--now Head of International Relations
2017--22 Head of Embedded Systems Department
2015--now Co-founder of Defrost Research Team
2010--15 Member of Shacra Research Team
2008--23 Associate Professor in Computer Science
2007--08 Research Engineer for Project SIMPLE
2006--07 Research Fellow (CIMIT·Harvard Med. School)
2002--05 Ph.D in Computer Science

PhD Supervision 9 students

2011 – 2014 25 %
Ahmed Yureidini

Robust Blood Vessel Modeling for Interactive Simulations

w/ Stephane Cotin, Erwan Kerrien, Marie-Odile Berger

→ R&D Engineer at Amadeus

2012 – 2015 33 %
Nazim Haouchine

Simulation guidée par l'image et réalité augmentée pour des opérations laparoscopiques

w/ Stephane Cotin, Marie-Odile Berger

→ Assistant Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School

2012 – 2017 33 %
Zhifan Jiang

Reconstruction semi-automatique d'un modèle biomécanique des tissus pelviens à partir d'une image IRM

w/ Christian Duriez, Matthias Brieu

→ Computer Scientist in AI-based Medical Imaging at Children's National Hospital

2018 – 2019 50 %
Zhongkai Zhang

Vision-based Calibration, Position Control and Force Sensing for Soft Robots

w/ Christian Duriez

→ Associate Professor, CAIR-CAS-Hong Kong University

2019 – 2022 50 %
Pierre Schegg

Navigation autonome de guides et cathéters pour une opération en cardiologie interventionnelle robotisée

w/ Christian Duriez · CIFRE (Robocath)

→ Research Engineer at Caranx Medical

2022 – 2026 33 %
Flavie Przybylski

Conception, modélisation et développement d’un robot endoscopique chirurgical souple

w/ Christian Duriez, Pierre Berthet-Rayne · CIFRE (Caranx Medical)

→ Research Engineer at Caranx Medical

2023 – ongoing 50 %
Sizhe Tian

TBD

w/ Yinoussa Adagolodjo

2024 – ongoing 20 %
Luciano Casanova

TBD

w/ Guillaume Laurent, Antoine Barbot · PEPR O2R

2025 – ongoing 50 %
Thomas Moupfouma

TBD

w/ Christian Duriez · HORIZON CL4 IRE

Patents

FR3015883 · BOPI 2015-27 · 2015-07-03

Système et procédé de suivi du déplacement d'un instrument médical dans le corps d'un sujet

w/ Mario Sanz Lopez, Stephane Cotin, Christian Duriez

US-15109034 · US Patent App. 15/109,034 · 2017-12-01

System and Method for Monitoring the Movement of a Medical Instrument in the Body of a Subject

w/ Mario Sanz Lopez, Stephane Cotin, Christian Duriez