Currently
• 2015-: Facebook
• Research scientist at Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research
Previously
• 2013-2015: IFP Energies Nouvelles
• Research engineer in signal and image processing.
Post-Doctorate
• 2011-2013: New York University
• Post-doc at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Science with Prof. Yann Lecun.
Combining graph-based approaches and learning methods for object recognition in scenes.
Education
• 2008-2011 : Université Paris Est
• PhD in Computer Science under the supervision of
Profs. Laurent Najman and Hugues Talbot.
• Discrete optimization for image processing: Resolution of
partial differential equations in graphs, with applications to
image segmentation, denoising, 3D reconstruction.
• Scholarship from DGA/CNRS, the research arm of the French
department of defense: scholarships attributed
competitively.
• 2008 : ESIEE Paris
• Engineering degree at ESIEE, France, a university of Computer
Science and Electronic engineering, graduated as valedictorian.
• 2008 : Université Paris Est
• Research Master degree in Computer Science at the UPE
(Paris-Est University), specialized in Imaging, in addition to
studies at ESIEE. Graduation with honors.
• 2006 : Université Paris Est
• Licence d'informatique (BSc Computer Science), awarded with merit.
• 2006 : Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
• Licence de Mathématiques , equivalent to BSc Maths in addition to studies at ESIEE.
• 2003 : Baccalauréat S
• Equivalent to English A-levels in pure maths and physics, Awarded with merit.
Honors and Awards
• EADS fundation PhD award
• February 2013 : Best inter-disciplinary (Maths and Computer Science) PhD thesis award (5000 €).
• Accessit Gilles Kahn PhD award
• February 2013 : Second price for best PhD thesis in Computer Science (500 €).
• CVPR doctoral symposium scholarship
• June 2011 : Scholarship ($ 1000) awarded to best graduating students.
• Best graduating students scholarship
• December 2007 : Scholarship (4000 €) awarded to best graduating students.
• ESIEE Innovation award
• June 2006 : "Virtual Joystick": project in image analysis
(motion detection) with two schoolmates from ESIEE. Innovation award
(1200 €) attributed to the best student ESIEE project among 150 others.
Work Experience
• 2008-current : ESIEE Paris
• Teaching assistant to BSc and Master students in
optimization, C programming, operating systems, set theory, graph
theory and algorithmics courses.
• March-Sept 2008 : Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, USA
• Addition of topological constraints to minimal
surfaces computation - study of discrete minimal surfaces problem
related to medical imaging.
• April-July 2007 : Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris
• Cognitive Neurosciences and Cerebral Imaging
Laboratory (LENA, CNRS). Software design of a tridimentionnal brain
atlas, implementation of image registration algorithms.
• Sept-Oct 2006 : DGA, French department of defense, Arcueil
•
Improved the
Human/Machine interface on a robotic platform,
implementation of skeletonization algorithms.
Skills
• Knowledge
• Graph Theory, Discrete Geometry, Convex Optimization, Mathematical
Morphology, Topology, Computer Graphics.
• Software languages
• C/C++, Matlab, Qt, Latex, Scilab, Python
Professionnal activities
• Software
• Implemented the Power Watershed Algorithm (C/C++ Code)
available freely
at http://sourceforge.net/projects/powerwatershed. This
software package provides implementation of various algorithms for 2D
and 3D image segmentation.
• Reviewer for journals and conferences
• IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), IEEE Transactions on
Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TR-PAMI), Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision
(JMIV), Pattern Recognition Letters (PRL), Image and Vision Computing (IVC), ACM Transactions
on Graphics.
• CVPR 2013 et Eusipco 2012
Invited Seminars
• Laboratoire d'Informatique de
l'Ecole Normale Superieure (CNRS/ENS/INRIA), Willow Project team,
November 4th, 2009.
• Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton NJ, October 8th, 2010.
• Telecom Paristech, Seminar GDR ISIS "Learning and sparsity", November 10th, 2010.
• 27 janvier 2011: GREYC, Université de Caen.
• 15 mars 2011: LAGA, Université Paris 13.
• 19 mars 2012: A2IA (Artificial Intelligence & Image Analysis), Paris.
• 8 octobre 2012: IMS, Bordeaux.
• 10 octobre 2012: Gipsa-lab, Grenoble.
• 7 fevrier 2013: INRIA, Sophia Antipolis