Nicolas Bouillot (Ph.D., Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers de Paris, 2006) is a researcher in the Society for Arts and Technology (SAT). He was research associate in the Shared Reality Lab (McGill university), and a member of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT).

His former interests in distributed systems, algorithms and music led to his development of the distributed virtual concert project (2002-2006). Motivated by multi-disciplinary research problems, he then contributed to the Audioscape project (2007-2009), in which mobile technologies and low-latency network streaming were used to support group collaboration in an outdoor augmented reality audio game.

In the Open Orchestra project (2010-2011), he explored audio/score synchronization, musical performance visualization, network monitoring, remote control, and high fidelity streaming for telepresence. Since 2012, he is involved in the switcher/shmdata projects.