Frédéric Payan

Publication in European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

2026, October: our paper SENSAAS-Bioisostere: A computational method for 3D shape-guided bioisosteric replacements and scaffold-hopping is now available in European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (ScienceDirect). Authors: Louis Somme, Yassin Es Saim, Frédéric Payan, Dominique Douguet.
Full Paper, Web Server, Code Source.

Publication in Geoscience Data Journal

2025, September: our paper LUNDIsim: Model Meshes for Flow Simulation and Scientific Data Compression Benchmarks is now available in Geoscience Data Journal (Oxford Academic). Authors: Laurent Duval, Frédéric Payan, Christophe Preux, Lauriane Bouard.
Full Paper in Open Access and Open Data on Zenodo.

Publication in Bioinformatics

2024, March: our paper SENSAAS-Flex: a joint optimization approach for aligning 3D shapes and exploring the molecular conformation space has been accepted in Bionformatics (Oxford Academic). Authors: Hamza Biyuzan, Mohamed-Akram Masrour, Lucas Grandmougin, Frédéric PAYAN, Dominique Douguet Full Paper and Code (Open Access)

HDR Defense

2023, November: I have defended my habilitation thesis entitled "My contributions to 3D geometry processing" at I3S (Sophia Antipolis).
Manuscript (in french) : tel-04318462.
Slides (in french) : Here.

Member of the AFIG Board of Directors

2023, November: I have just been elected Member of the Board of directors AFIG.

Invited Talk at SFCi 2023

2023, October: I was invited to present Sensaas and Molecularxiv at the 11th SFCI conference (11èmes Journées de la Société Française de Chémoinformatique) held in Caen on October 5 and 6, 2023.
Slides (in english) : SensaaS and MoleculArXiv, or the benefits of interdisciplinarity.

Communication in Eurographics 2022

2022, April: I presented our short paper Graph-based Computation of Voronoi Diagrams on Large-scale Point-based Surfaces at Eurographics 2022 (Reims, France). Authors: Arnaud Bletterer; Frederic PAYAN; Marc Antonini. HAL

SENSAAS, our open source software to align 3D molecular structures is now released

2021, June: Dominique Douguet (UCA IPMC CNRS INSERM) and I have developed SENSAAS, an open access software to align 3D molecular structures. Based on their publication Shape‐based Alignment by Registration of Colored Point‐based Surfaces available Here in open access, the code is now available on github (github.com/SENSAAS/sensaas), and videos (installation instructions and examples of use) are available on the dedicated channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3cjM1j8cQ-95ev0DNxRMOA.

PhD Defense

2021, March: Lauriane Bouard, supervised by Laurent Duval (IFPEN), Marc Antonini and myself (I3S) has defended her PhD in march: "Refinable resolution and precision for volume mesh compression and simulation in geosciences".
Slides (in english) : Here
Manuscript (in english) : Here

Publication in IEEE TVCG

2020, December: our paper A local graph-based structure for processing gigantic aggregated 3D point clouds has been accepted in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. Authors: Arnaud Bletterer; Frederic PAYAN; Marc Antonini. DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2020.3042588

Publication in Molecular Informatics

2020, June: our paper sensaas: Shape‐based Alignment by Registration of Colored Point‐based Surfaces has been accepted in Molecular Informatics (Wiley). Authors: Dominique DOUGUET, Frédéric PAYAN. Full Paper (Open Access)

Organizing board for JFIG 2021

I am member of the organizing commitee for JFIG 2021 (November, Sophia Antipolis)

Organizing board for CORESA 20202021

I am member of the organizing commitee for CORESA 20202021 (November, Sophia Antipolis). Website

Raphaël Lançon-Ville (2025/11 - ...)
Impact of the 3D geometry of a DNA strand in the context of data storage on synthetic DNA
Funded by DS4H

Lauriane Bouard (2017 - 2021)
Refinable resolution / precision for volume mesh compression & simulation in geosciences / Raffinement en résolution et précision pour la compression et la simulation de maillages volumiques en géosciences
Co-supervised with Laurent Duval (IFP Energies Nouvelles) and Marc Antonini (DR CNRS)
Slides (in english) : Here
Funded by IFP-Energies Nouvelles

Arnaud Bletterer (2014 - 2018)
Surface reconstruction from dense point clouds / Reconstruction de surfaces à partir de nuages de points denses
Co-supervised with Marc Antonini (DR CNRS)
Manuscript (in french) : HAL
https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-02099777 Funded by Région PACA and Cintoo.

Jean-Luc Peyrot (2011 - 2014)
Optimization of the 3D scanning pipeline : from surfaces to semi-regular meshes / Optimisation de la chaîne de numérisation 3D : de la surface au maillage semi-régulier
Manuscript (in french) : HAL
Co-supervised with Marc Antonini (DR CNRS).
Funded by Région PACA and Noomeo company.

Aymen Kammoun (2007 - 2011)
Multiresolution analysis of semi-regular meshes. Application to geometry compression / Contributions au domaine de l'analyse multirésolution de maillages surfaciques semi-réguliers. Application à la compression géométrique
Manuscript (in french) : HAL
Co-supervised with Marc Antonini (DR CNRS).

Academic

• Dominique Douguet (CR Inserm, IPMC, UCA)
• Laurent Duval (IFP Energies nouvelles)
• Marc Antonini (DR CNRS, I3S, UCA)
• Eric Séjor (Chirurgien, CHU Nice)
• Thomas Maugey (CR Inria Rennes)
• Olivier Aubreton (Assistant Professor, Le2i, Le Creusot)
• Basile Sauvage (Assistant Professor, Icube, Strasbourg)
• Céline Roudet (Assistant Professor, Le2i, Dijon)

Companies and Institution

• IFP Energies Nouvelles, during the Postdoctoral research of Jean-Luc Peyrot (2015-2016), the PhD of Lauriane Bouard (2017 - 2021), and beyond...
• Cintoo (2014 - 2018) in the context of the PhD of Arnaud Bletterer.
• Noomeo (2011-2014) in the context of the PhD of Jean-Luc Peyrot and of the collaborative Project Creative3D.