Diploma
Experiences
Post-Doctorate – Physics Institute of Rennes (France)
Simulations of granular matter.
Post-Doctorate – Sciences of the Universe Observatory (Rennes, France)
Recognition of the vegetation in 3D point clouds captured with a LiDAR.
Teaching – University of Rennes 1 (Rennes, France)
This was a contract with the University of Rennes 1 for a teaching position at the IUT school in St Malo. I taught Networking techniques. Research was done in cooperation with the LTSI laboratory in Rennes.
PhD – Concordia University (Montreal, Canada)
The thesis was accepted by the examining committee as submitted, without a request for even minor modifications, which is a very rare outcome. The examiners individually judged the thesis from "very good" to "excellent".
The first two years of this PhD were supported by the French ambassy subsidiary in Montreal and EADS corporate research center.
Research activities: Artificial life and intelligence, emergent behaviors, creation of algorithms and tools.
Teaching: Certificate of accomplissement of the "Teaching at the university level" Concordia seminar program. Application as a teaching assistant with 5th year students (assembly) and 4th year students (C++).
Supervisor of the PhD: Peter Grogono.
External Examiner: Wolfgang Fink.
Members of the commitee: Gregory Butler, Joey Paquet, Nawwaf Kharma.
See also the page dedicated to my PhD thesis on this site.
Engineering – EADS Research Center (Toulouse, France)
The corporate research center (CRC) of EADS (European Aeronautics and Defense Society) has the objective of gathering the Research and Development activities for the subsidiaries of the group.
Responsibilities: Technical expert, answering contract bids, technological survey, conception and realization.
Engineering – Astrium (Toulouse, France)
Astrium is a subsidiary of the EADS group. Its main activity is to build satellites, and this include all related facilities like simulators and control centers.
Responsibilities: Expert in software architecture in the satellite simulator department. Supervision of trainees, technical advisor for sub-contractors, member of the internal network of technical experts.
Engineering – CRIL Technology (Toulouse, France)
CRIL Technology is a software services company. It is specialized in on-demand realizations for clients, in domains ranging from the constructions of test benchs to the conception of Web interfaces to databases.
Responsibilities: Engineer and software programmer.
Master of Science by research – Aston University (Birmingham, England)
See the MScR page on this site for more d'information.
Research activities: Usage of a neural network and statistical techniques for weather forecasting.
Teaching: C++ teachning assistant for the second year studients in the university.
Supervisor of the Master: Dan Cornford
Internship – Hewlett Packard (Grenoble, France)
This French subsidiary of Hewlett Packard is located in Grenoble. The main activity of the department where I worked consists in the supervision of the outsourcing services they offer.
Task: Automate the analysis and supervision of the performances.
Internship - Centre for Mechanical Studies, Ile de France (Evry, France)
The CEMIF is a research center attached to the University of Evry. The research domains concern primarily robotics and artificial intelligence for the robots behavior, together with how to acquire data from the environment and visualization techniques.
Tasks: Define and implement a mechanism for the control and command of the robot from the Internet.
Supervisors of the internship: Samir Otmane, Florent Chavand.
