Alex Tessier
Director, Simulation, Optimization & Systems
Americas
Biography
Alex Tessier is the head of the Simulation, Optimization and Systems Group. He leads the team’s efforts in Big Data, Computer Vision, and IoT. He has a Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Waterloo, and a Master of Science in Computer Science, and is currently a PhD Candidate, also in Computer Science, both at the University of Toronto. Alex has been a leader in the Complex Systems research team for over a decade, but joined after more than a decade in product organizations. With 20 years of diverse industry experience, Alex has worked in various areas and companies, notably: IBM, General Electric, Aiolos Engineering, National Defense Canada and Procision Analysis Corp.
Alex’s research interests are in interactive simulation, generative design, parallelism and hardware rendering.
Alex hobbies include scuba diving, playing the violin and being the drummer in a band. Together with his wife Alice, Alex’s activities outside of work focus mainly on his two young boys, William and Jacques, and their Labrador retriever Athena.
Publications (22)
2023
Generative design for COVID-19 and future pathogens using stochastic multi-agent simulation
Proposing a generative design workflow that integrates a stochastic…
2023
Algorithms for Voxel-based Architectural Space Analysis
This approach provides a simple and robust way to compute…
2022
Path Counting for Grid-Based Navigation
Counting the number of shortest paths on a grid is a simple procedure…
Projects
2022
Building Simulation
With simulation results in hand, an architect can better predict the…
2022
Systems Design and Simulation
Predictive models of complex systems will require a more scalable,…
2019
Project Dasher: Real-Time Building Performance in BIM
Project Dasher is an Autodesk research project using a BIM-based…
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