Kadi Bouatouch was an electronics and automatic systems engineer (ENSEM 1974). He was awarded a Ph.D. in 1977 and a higher doctorate in computer science in the field of computer graphics in 1989. He is working on global illumination, lighting simulation for complex environments, GPU-based rendering, and computer vision. He is currently a Professor at the University of Rennes 1 (France) and a researcher at IRISA (Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Systemes Aleatoires). He is a member of Eurographics.