Engineering Management
Resume:
Vincent Berenz, Ph.D.
Multi-fields research programmer with strong international experience
Nationality: French
Date of birth: 21/07/1977
Current address: Tsukuba, Japan
Tel: +81-90-184*-****
Contact: *******@**.***.*******.**.**
5 years professional experience as research programmer
Ph.D. Artificial Intelligence (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Master of Business Engineering (EBI, France)
Chemical Engineering Degree (ESCOM, France)
Software engineering / Robotics
Java (4 years professional experience), Python, C++, Octave
Robotics: iRobot Roomba ROI, expert in Aldebaran humanoid robot Nao
Strong experience in development of cognitive architecture for humanoid robots
Computer vision: OpenCV
Web programming: JSP, HTML
Database: SQL
OS: Ubuntu, IDE: Eclipse, version control: SVN
Competences in algorithms, machine learning and design pattern
Molecular modeling/Life science
MOE/SVL, Chemaxon JChem/Marvin
Professional experience in design of molecular descriptors for machine learning related to prediction of
pharmacologic properties / protein docking
Published research projects
Humanoid robotics: the Targets-Drives-Means architecture for declarative behavior specification
Statistics applied to mobile robotics: risk-gain battery management for mobile robots.
Machine learning: the Synchronized Oriented Mutations Algorithm for training neural controllers.
Professional Experiences
2006-2007 Research programmer, Pharmadesign, Japan
2002-2006 Research programmer, CEREP, USA/France
1999-2000 Organic chemistry scientist (intern position), Bayer, Germany
Languages
English: Fluent
French: Native
Japanese: Intermediate high
German: good working knowledge
For recommendations, please refer to: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/vincent-berenz/2/394/699
Online resume: http://www.ai.iit.tsukuba.ac.jp/~vincent/
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Academic Curriculum
2008-2012 Ph.D. Artificial Intelligence
Affiliation: University of Tsukuba Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Japan)
Supervised by: Pr. Kenji Suzuki, Pr. Yoshiyuki Sankai, Pr. Masahiko Morita
Thesis: A Declarative Approach for Targets-Drives-Means Based Behavior Control of Cognitive Robots.
2009-2011 Research student at the Cybernics GCOE education program: 2 years program of tutorial studies
in the field of human-machine-information systems. Includes classes in medicine, engineering and humanities
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: life sciences. Curriculum in molecular biology and microbiology
Professional Experiences
2006-2007 Research Programmer, Pharmadesign (Tokyo, Japan)
Development of protein docking related tools. Job descriptions:
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, CEREP (USA, France)
Development of molecular descriptors for drug-design. Job descriptions:
Design of molecular descriptors and JAVA implementation based on Marvin and JChem (Chemaxon)
Implementation of these molecular descriptors for a QSAR model builder, including Genetic and closest
neighbor algorithms (JAVA)
Collaboration with biologists for design of the end-user interface and implementation in the BioPrint
pharmaco-informatics commercial platform (Java, HTML, JSP and SQL)
Scientific and technical customer support
1999-2000 Organic Chemistry Scientist, Bayer AG (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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Publication list
International Journals
Vincent Berenz and Kenji Suzuki: "Targets-Drives-Means Architecture for Declarative Representation of
Cognitive Behaviors" (under review for publication in Autonomous Robotics).
Anna Gruebler, Vincent Berenz and Kenji Suzuki: "Emotionally Assisted Human-Robot Interaction using a
Wearable Device for Reading Facial Expressions", Advanced Robotics, Special Issue on Cutting Edge of
Robotics in Japan 2012
Vincent Berenz, Fumihide Tanaka and Kenji Suzuki: "Autonomous Battery Management for Mobile Robots
Based on Risk and Gain Assessment", Artificial Intelligence Review, pp.1-21, May 2011.
International Conferences Proceedings
Vincent Berenz and Kenji Suzuki: "Risk and Gain Battery Management for Self-Docking Mobile Robots", Proc.
of IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), 2011.
Vincent Berenz, Mark Herink, Fumihide Tanaka and Kenji Suzuki: "TDM: A Software Framework for Elegant
and Rapid Development of Autonomous Behaviors for Humanoid Robots," Proc. of IEEE-RAS International
Conference on Humanoid Robots, pp.179-186, 2011.
Anna Gruebler, Vincent Berenz and Kenji Suzuki: "Coaching Robot Behavior Using Continuous Physiological
Affective Feedback," Proc. of IEEE-RAS Conference on Humanoid Robots, pp. 466-471, 2011
Vincent Berenz and Kenji Suzuki: "Sensory-objects Network Driven by Intrinsic Motivation for Survival
Abilities", Proc. of IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), pp. 871-876, 2009.
Vincent Berenz and Kenji Suzuki: "Synchronized Oriented Mutations Algorithm for Training Neural
Controllers," Proc. of the International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP), pp. 244-251,
2009.
Other
Vincent Berenz, Fumihide Tanaka and Kenji Suzuki: "Targets-Drives-Means Architecture: a New Paradigm for
Easier Implementation of Behaviors into Humanoid Robots", Proc. of 4th International Workshop on Cybernics
(IWC2011), 2011.
Vincent Berenz, Fumihide Tanaka and Kenji Suzuki: "Assessment of Risk of Battery Depletion for Mobile
Robots", Proc. of 4th International Workshop on Cybernics (IWC2011), 2011 (best paper award).
Poster presenting the molecular modeling tools developed for the BioPrint database (CEREP):
http://www.ai.iit.tsukuba.ac.jp/~vincent/papers/bioprint.pdf
Open source software: TDM behavior based architecture
Targets-Drives-Means (TDM) is a humanoid robot behavior specification tools developed as the main part of the
doctoral studies at the University of Tsukuba Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. It has ben made available open
source along with tutorials, examples, documentation and an open-cv based vision module. Starting libraries for
Aldebaran Nao are also provided.
Source code, videos, tutorials and documentation:
http://www.ai.iit.tsukuba.ac.jp/~vincent/opensource/tdm/
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