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I’m a Multidisciplinary software engineer, interested in algorithms, geometrical modeling, computer graphics, scientific visualization, physics-based simulation, computational photography, and anything else. I hold Bsc degree in Physical Informatics from Tbilisi State University (Georgia), Msc degree in Computer Science with Visual Computing specialisation track from ETH Zurich (Switzerland), and a PhD degree in Interdisciplinary program from University of Geneva (Switzerland)
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Selected list of publications:
A Living Mesoscopic Cellular Automaton Made of Skin Scales
Manukyan L., Montandon S.A., Fofonjka A., Smirnov S., M.C. Milinkovitch
Nature 544, 7649 : 173–179 (2017)
Here we show that in ocellated lizards a quasi-hexagonal lattice of skin scales, rather than individual chromatophore cells, establishes a green and black labyrinthine pattern of skin colour…
Crocodile Head Scales Are Not Developmental Units But Emerge from Physical Cracking
Milinkovitch M.C., Manukyan L., Debry A., Di-Poï N., Martin S., Singh D., Lambert D., Zwicker M.
Science 339, 6115 : 78-81 (2013)
We show that, contrary to skin appendages in other amniotes (as well as body scales in crocodiles), face and jaws scales of crocodiles are random polygonal domains of highly keratinized skin, rather than genetically controlled elements, and emerge from a physical self-organizing stochastic process distinct from RDMs: cracking of the developing skin in a stress field.
R2OBBIE-3D, a Fast Robotic High-Resolution System for Quantitative Phenotyping of Surface Geometry and Colour-Texture
Martins A., Bessant M., Manukyan L., M.C. Milinkovitch
PLOS ONE 10, 6 : e0126740 (2015)
Here, we report on R2OBBIE-3D, an integrated system that combines a robotic arm, a high-resolution digital colour camera, an illumination basket of high-intensity light-emitting diodes and state-of-the-art 3D-reconstruction approaches.
Vascular Structure Construction in Human Model for Consideration of Blood Flow in Heat Exchange during EM Exposure
D. Kakulia, L. Manukyan, M. Prishvin, V Jeladze, R. Zaridze, G. Bit-Babik, A. Faraone
European Electromagnetics 2008, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
A new algorithm for construction of artificial blood vessel networks and a new approach to simulate heat exchange in tissue are presented. The algorithm produces discrete three- dimensional geometric representations of both arterial and venous networks.
Related: L. Manukyan, D. Mazmanov, V. Labadze, D. Kakulia, R. Zaridze. “Toolkit for regeneration of vascular structure for precise numerical study of thermal processes in electromagnetic human exposure and its implementation in FDTDLab” Proceedings of XIIth DIPED-2007, Lviv, Ukraine.
EM Field Distribution and Propagation in Some Realistic Scenarios
D. Kakulia, L. Manukyan, D. Mazmanov, A. Razmadze, R. Zaridze
Journal of Applied Electromagnetism, Volume 9, Num. 2, December, 2007. pp. 39-53.
Related: L. Manukyan, L. Paroshina, T. Gogua, D. Kakulia. “Simulation of EM scattering on open surfaces by method of auxiliary sources”, Proceedings of Xth International Seminar/Workshop on Direct and Inverse Problems of Electromagnetic and Acoustic Wave Theory (DIPED-2005), Lviv, Ukraine.
Patents:
“System and method for simulating machining objects” US8838419, Sep.16, 2014