Curriculum

MSc in Computer Science at Paris XI University (Orsay), with a cognitive sciences specialization, with highest honors (mention Très Bien)

Engineer diploma in Computer Science, Electronic and Automatic at esiea Paris (Ecole Supérieure d'Informatique - Electronique - Automatique), with highest honors (mention Très Honorable avec les félicitations du jury).

Preparatory class PCSI (Physics Chemistry Engineer Sciences) at Lycée Blaise Pascal (Orsay).

High School Diploma in science, with highest honors (mention Très Bien).

Research master internship working on the conception of a formal language for conversational agents requests by a corpus study made within the framework of the DAFT project, under the responsability of Jean-Paul Sansonnet.

End of engineer studies internship devoted to the creation and the optimization of a lexico-semantic parser in Java and Python for an entertaining conversational agent. The Simdate project development was the first step to a second generation dialog technology (where the agent is proactive) based on a semantic ontology and the use of attentional structures (frames). That technology is eventually meant to be used for the agents developed and sold by the company.
Involvement in the deployment of several web agents and their prototypes by creating the pages and the communication functions in Javascript between the agents and the website.
Development of a new animation platform in Flash for the commercial conversational agents.

Technical internship to develop a web interface for an electronic documents repository online under SAP. This toolkit helped to speed up the work of european developers in order to create an integrated and compatible document management system for all the european countries.

Installation of a Second Generation METEOSAT satellite image reception station for the Satellite Image Acquisition and Processing research team, under the responsability of Laurent Beaudoin. Conception of a hardware and software archive system (3 Tb/year), in collaboration with Jean-Claude Bergès from the MSG research group.

Technical internship as C network developer under FreeBSD. Client-Server development and network switches configuration through SNMP.

Management of esiea Aerospace Association's hardware (10 computers) and development of a stars cartography software in Java.

Internship as employee of Xerox Consumables Department.

Communication campaign to promote comics in the school, management of the comics books library and development of a dedicated software and database (PHP + MySQL).

Website conception and development of dedicated tools (HTML editor in VisualBasic) for Xerox France Enterprise Committee.

Training and supervision of human education activities of 1st year students, under the responsability of Michel Boulanger and Fernand Claude.

Professor assistant in esiea electronic lab for first years students, under the supervision of Eric Konieczny.

Mastering Windows 95 to XP and NT, DOS.
Good knowledge of GNU/Linux.
Experience with FreeBSD.

High level : C, Java, Python, Visual Basic 5, Prolog, Lisp, Lex, Yacc.
Web : HTML, JavaScript, CSS, ActionScript, PHP, SQL (Oracle, MySQL).
Low level : assembly languages for micro-controllers and 80x86.

Ethernet, Token Ring and X.25.
Protocols TCP, UDP, ICMP, SNMP.

Software engineering (UML), formal logic, combinatory and numeric optimisation, data mining, artificial intelligence (artificial life, automatic learning, genetic algorithms and neural networks).

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher), Latex.

Mother tongue.

Fluent.
TOEIC : 935 (2004)
TOEFL : 247 Computer Based Test (= 597 Paper Based Test) (2004)

Good knowledge.