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Christophe Ramstein is Immersion's senior vice president of engineering and research and president of Immersion Canada, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary. Since 1988, Ramstein has been designing, developing, and evangelizing haptic systems, adding synthetic touch to the human-computer interaction experience. In 1988 he completed a Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics at the Institute Joseph Fourier and, in 1991, completed a PhD in computer sciences at the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble, France. From 1992 to 1996, he managed major R&D projects in the field of haptics and simulation with Industry Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, McGill University, and private companies. He authored many patents and innovative technical papers presented at international conferences. In 1994, he demonstrated the first multimodal system allowing visually impaired users to freely navigate the Windows desktop with a haptic mouse. In 1996, he founded Haptic Technologies, Inc. focusing on the engineering and production of programmable haptic systems. When Immersion Corporation acquired Haptic Technologies in 2000, Ramstein became senior director of software and driver development. In 2001, he became general manager of Immersion Canada and in October 2002 was promoted to vice president of Immersion's engineering group. | 