Design Engineering

Vincent Berenz, Ph.D.

French nationality, date of birth: 21/07/1977

current location: Tsukuba, Japan. Tel: +81-901*******

contact: *******@**.***.(tsukuba.ac.jp)

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Academic Curriculum

2008-2012 Ph.D. Artificial Intelligence

Awarded a three years Ph.D. scholarship from MEXT (monbukagakusho scholarship)

Awarded a two years fellowship from the Global Center of Excellence Program on Cybernics

Best award paper at the International Workshop on Cybernics 2011

Thesis A Declarative Approach for Targets-Drives-Means Based Behavior Control of Cognitive Robots

Affiliation, Dept of Intelligent Interaction Technologies

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Provided innovative solutions for the programming of cognitive humanoid robot.

Applied design patterns to the state of art technics in cognitive robot architectures

Designed solution for solving threading issues related to the concurrent implementation of reactive and deliberative cognition

Conceived and implemented an original control architecture based on declarative behavior-based robotics

Conducted users usability tests that validated the accessibility of the approach

Used the developed architecture for experiments in the field of human-robot interaction, involved design of a reactive behavior running a reinforcement learning algorithm

Created documentation, video-based tutorials and released the software open-source

Other published projects: machine learning applied to neural controlers, statistics methodology for management of battery for autonomous robots, emotionally assisted human-robot interaction.

2002 Master of Business Engineering

Affiliation: Ecole de Biologie Industrielle (EBI), France

One year program for acquiring skills for applying previously acquired biology skills in the context of decision

making and project management. Specialization: computing for life science. More information: website

1995-2001 Chemical Engineering Degree, specialization: life science

Affilation: Ecole Superieure de Chimie Organique et Minerale (ESCOM), France.

ESCOM is a grande ecole specialized in chemistry offering a 5-years post-A-level training course. Preparation cycle (2 years): solid basic multidisciplinary scientific knowledge. Engineering cycle (3 years): based on the knowledge of company tools and on chemistry, aiming at forming students into operative managers in the field of chemistry. Specialization in biology: Fast track formation in molecular biology and microbiology For more information: website

Professional Experience

2006-2007 Research Programmer (Japan)

Small sized (~20 people) start up research company for in-silico drug discovery

Specialized in protein/ligand interactions

Main activities Development of protein docking related tools

Development of software filter for preparation of a database of proteins using SVL and MOE Development of drug candidate/protein docking program

2002-2006 Research Programmer (USA, France)

World leader in in-vitro pharmacology, in-vitro ADME-TOX and in-vivo PK.

CEREP commercializes BioPrint, a large pharmacology and ADME database

Main activities Develpment of molecular descriptors for drug-design

Design of molecular descriptors based on pharmacophoric features, polar surface areas and fields overlapJava implementation and validation of these descriptors

Integration in machine learning software for a QSAR model builder, including neural network, decision trees and closest neighbor algorithms (JAVA)

Design of a virtual screening based on oracle database of active compounds

Collaboration with biologists for design of the end-user interface and implementation in the BioPrint pharmaco-informatics commercial plateform (Java, HTML, JSP and SQL)

Scientific and technical customer support

Partial summary: http://www.ai.iit.tsukuba.ac.jp/%7Evincent/papers/bioprint.pdf

1999-2000 Organic Chemistry Scientist

(Germany). Intern position held at Bayer AG (1 year, 1999) during seizure during chemical engineering study.

Job description: Creation of protocol for synthesis of imidazole derived compounds from aminoacetal and imidate building blocks, analysis and purification of the resulting compounds using preparative chromatography.

Graduate level internships

2001 (5 months): Corning Life Science (France). Selection of coating suitable for protein print, creation of protocol for protein print, analysis of results using fluorescent spectroscopy.

2000 (3 months): Sanofi-Aventis (France). Organic chemistry: development of synthesis protocols of active organic compounds.

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