Cyril Ray is lecturer at the Naval Academy Research Institute (IRENav) since October 2005. He obtained a Ph.D. from IRENav and University of Rennes 1 in France in 2003.  The thesis research project was concerned with distributed systems and the contribution such a system can provide for the modelling and the simulation of transportation systems. He made his post-docoral studies within ACES project at INRIA Rennes where he participated to the design and the conception of a Java operating system for embedded appliances.

His current research activities in GIS group at IRENav focus on modelling, analysis and visualisation of sensors and mobile objects within Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and mobile/ubiquitous Geographical Information Systems (SIG). These thematics are developed on the one hand within the urban framework and on the other hand within a maritime framework through many academic relations (China, Quebec, UK, Ireland, France) and with the regional partners. 

Cyril Ray is also in charge of computer science department at Naval Academy. His lectures within this department include computer architecture, operating systems, networks, distributed and embedded systems, simulation and the artificial intelligence, geolocalisation systems.