François Mazen is the Director for the Scientific Visualization team at Kitware Europe.
Throughout his career, François has focused on developing software solutions for scientific communities from research to industry. This topic includes numerical simulation methods, performance, Artificial Intelligence and large software architectures.
In 2008, François received his engineering degree at IFMA (French Institute for Advanced Mechanics) in Clermont-Ferrand where he was nominated for TOP 10 students.
The same year, he also received a Master of Science at Université Blaise Pascal (Clermont-Ferrand) where he specialized in Rigid Body.
Before joining Kitware, his previous 13 years of experience included 4 years at Ansys as a Software Developer to customize the Ansys Workbench application for specific customer requirements. He also worked for more than 6 years at Siemens PLM as Project Leader and Software Architect, where he integrated Robot’s Path Planning Technology in large applications like Siemens NX, Dassault Catia and Tecnomatix Process Simulate.
François is an open source enthusiast as he has been contributing to several open source softwares since 2007. Currently, he is an active member of the Debian Operating System development team.
Since 2021 he has led Kitware’s European Scientific Visualization team, including team management, strategy, technical expertise, operational excellence and business development.
Talks
(Last update December 2024)
2024
2024-05-13 ISC-HPC, Hamburg, Germany – « Visualization for and with HPC infrastructure » NHR4CE Sofa Talk
2024-05-16 ISC-HPC, Hamburg, Germany – 8th International Workshop on In Situ Visualization – « In Situ In Transit Hybrid Analysis with Catalyst-ADIOS2 »
2024-05-23 7th French/Belgian OpenFOAM® users conference – “Web Visualization of OpenFOAM Results”
2024-05-29 Teratec Forum 24, Paris, France – “Construire, contrôler et exécuter un jumeau numérique avec des outils de visualisation scientifique”
2024-06-03 PASC24, Zürich, Switzerland, Improving the Sustainability of Research and Scientific Software – “Measuring Software Sustainability”
2024-06-04 PASC24, Zürich, Switzerland, Open-Source Scientific Software Ecosystem Stewardship: Pathways to Foundations – “Challenges of Open Source Software Maintenance and Governance at Kitware”
2024-06-12 Fusion Workshop – AI and Visualizing large dataset Princeton University Mader Hall Campus – “Build, Monitor and Run a Digital Twin with ParaView”
2024-09-26 – ParaView User Day Europe 2024, Lyon, France – Opening Talk
2024-12-03 – Journée scientifique du CCRT 2024, Paris, France – “Visualisation Scientifique à l’ère Exascale”
2023
2023-05-17 – Durham HPC Days, Durham, UK – « Large-scale to Exascale Data Exploration and Visualization with ParaView »
2023-05-22 – ISC-HPC, Hamburg, Germany – « Recent challenges in visualization for HPC » NHR4CE Sofa Talk
2023-05-26 – ISC-HPC, hamburg, Germany – 7th International Workshop on In Situ Visualization – « Catalyst-ADIOS2 In transit analysis for numerical simulations using Catalyst 2 API »
2023-06-13 – 6th French/Belgian OpenFOAM® users conference, Grenoble, France – « Computational Model Builder for OpenFOAM »
2023-06-22 – Journée Visu 2023, Orsay, France – Prospective Panel
2023-09-19 – ParaView User Day Europe 2023, Lyon, France – Opening Talk
2022
2022-04-03 – Journée du Logiciel Libre, Lyon, France – » Kitware, illustration d’une activité commerciale autour du monde du libre et de l’innovation »
2022-05-17 – 5th French/Belgian OpenFOAM® users conference, Solaize, France – « Modern and Advanced Features of ParaView »
2022-05-22 – ISC-HPC, Hamburg, Germany – « In Situ Analysis and Visualization with Catalyst and Ascent », Tutorial with Jean M. Favre (CSCS)
2022-05-30 – ISC-HPC, Hamburg, Germany – « Visualization in HPC » NHR4CE Sofa Talk
2022-11-13 – SuperComputing, Dallas, TX, USA – In Situ Infrastructures for Enabling Extreme-scale Analysis and Visualization Workshop – « In Situ Monitoring and Steering Deep Learning Training from Numerical Simulations in ParaView-Catalyst »
2021
2021-09-15 – code_saturne/neptune_cfd Annual users’ meeting – « In Situ Analysis with ParaView Catalyst »
Webinars
2024
2024-01-30 – Kitware’s Webinar for Teratec/CC-Fr – Explore and Visualize Massive Datasets with ParaView
2024-10-08 – Altair’s and Kitware’s Webinar – High-fidelity simulations with OpenRadioss & ParaView
2023
2023-11-07 – Kitware’s Webinar for Teratec/CC-Fr – « Explorez et visualisez vos données massives avec ParaView »
2023-07-03 – Kitware’s Webinar for EXCELLERAT2 – « Large-scale to Exascale Data Exploration and Visualization with ParaView »
2023-03-15 – Kitware’s Webinar – « »Basic CFD Post-processing with ParaView »
2022
2022-11-09 – Kitware’s Webinar – « Leverage the Power of your GPU »
Scientific Publications and Contributions
2024
Mazen, F., Gombert, L., Givord, L., Gueunet, C. (2025). In Situ in Transit Hybrid Analysis with Catalyst-ADIOS2. In: Weiland, M., Neuwirth, S., Kruse, C., Weinzierl, T. (eds) High Performance Computing. ISC High Performance 2024 International Workshops. ISC High Performance 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15058. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73716-9_34
Gueunet, C., Mazen, F. (2024). Towards a Progressive Open Source Framework for SciVis and InfoVis. PDAV 2024 – IEEE VIS Workshop on Progressive Data Analysis and Visualization
2023
Mazen, F., Givord, L., Gueunet, C. (2023). Catalyst-ADIOS2: In Transit Analysis for Numerical Simulations Using Catalyst 2 API. In: Bienz, A., Weiland, M., Baboulin, M., Kruse, C. (eds) High Performance Computing. ISC High Performance 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13999. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40843-4_20
Fausty J., Gueunet C., Westphal M., Mazen F. Challenges in visualizing results from more modern finite element formulations: high-order, DG, H(div), H(curl). Talk at Journée Visu 2023, June 22, 2023, Orsay, France.
J. Fausty, F. Mazen. Enabling Scientific Communities through ParaView. Talk at Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) 2023 Minisymposium: Code as Community, June 26, 2023, Davos, Switzerland.
2022
A. Ribes, F. Mazen, L. Meyer. In Situ Monitoring and Steering Deep Learning Training from Numerical Simulations in ParaView-Catalyst. Talk at In Situ Infrastructures for Enabling Extreme-Scale Analysis and Visualization (ISAV’22), November 13, 2022, Dallas, TX, USA.
F. Mazen, A. Schieb, A. Ribes, L. Meyer. Visualize, Monitor and Control the Training Process of a Deep Surrogate Model in ParaView. ISC HPC 2022 Project Poster Session. Hamburg, Germany. May-June 2022.