My long-term goal is to understand intelligence; understanding its underlying principles would give us access to artificial intelligence (AI), and I believe that learning algorithms are essential in this quest. Learning algorithms could give computers the ability to capture operational knowledge (not necessarily in symbolic / verbal form) from examples.

I am primarily interested in the design of robust algorithms, in the context of subdivision surfaces in solid modelling. Such surfaces are used in Computer Graphics and Computer Vision, in particular for the geometrical models used in computer games and film animation.