Lucas Gottar is an R&D Engineer in the Scientific Visualization team at Kitware Europe.
Lucas graduated from the University of Technology of Troyes (UTT) with an engineering degree in Computer Science and Information Systems, and completed a specialization in Computer Vision at UTBM. Lucas brings strong expertise in C++ development, GPU programming, computer graphics, and high-performance computing.
Before joining Kitware, he worked at Université Gustave-Eiffel on research related to human visual perception and contrast visibility, and completed an industrial internship at Jindal Films where he developed and deployed a real-time computer vision system for defect detection on a production line. Passionate about rendering and software architecture, he also developed his own modular 3D ray-tracing engine in C++20.