Frederic Fol Leymarie

Frédéric Fol Leymarie is a Professor at Goldsmiths, University of London, working at the intersection of creativity, artificial intelligence, and visual computing. His research focuses on understanding and modeling our internalized visual world through computer graphics, computer vision, machine learning, shape and movement understanding, and artistically skillful robots.

With a deeply multidisciplinary approach, he collaborates with practitioners and researchers across visual arts (drawing, painting, calligraphy, sculpture), performance (dance and theatre), psychology of perception, biosciences, curating, and applied robotics. His work bridges academic research, artistic practice, and real-world applications, including interactive systems and creative AI.

As an entrepreneur and curator, he founded high-tech ventures such as London Geometry and DynAikon, and co-founded the Creative Machine exhibition, an internationally recognized platform exploring machine creativity. He earned his PhD from Brown University, where he co-founded the SHAPE Laboratory, and has since played a key role in shaping pioneering graduate programs in arts computing, computer games, and applied AI at Goldsmiths.