STANISLAS POLU
San Francisco, CA 94108
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http://www.scs.stanford.edu/~spolu/
EDUCATIONSTANFORD UNIVERSITY, CA, 2007-2009
Computer Science Master's Program. Graduated Mar. 09.
Systems Specialization.
Cumulative GPA: 3.82
ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE, FRANCE, 2004-2007
France's top ranking university for sciences.
Cross-disciplinary Background (CS, Maths, Stat, Eco).
Specialization : CS
GPA : CS 3.9, Overall 3.8
PREPARATORY CLASSSES MPI, FRANCE, 2002-2004
Intensive Undergraduate program in advanced Maths and Physics.
RESEARCH PROJECTSINDEPENDENT STUDY, SCS LAB, STANFORD UNIVERSITY, 2008
I have been working on a decentralized distributed file
system aiming at taking advantage of the bandwidth
generated by physically transported devices to spawn a
personal storage cloud over a user's devices.
RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIP, PBL LAB, STANFORD UNIVERSITY, 09/2007 - 03/2008
I have been in charge of the development of TalkingPaper,
a ubiquitous client-server collaborative environment
that facilitates knowledge capture, sharing and reuse
during synchronous and asynchronous communicative events.
SOFTWARE ENGINEER INTERN, EXALEAD SA, PARIS, 04/2007 - 08/2007
I did research on automatic clean-up and structured
extraction from HTML documents. I designed a semantic
for extraction rules specifically designed to take
advantage of the implicit logical content of a page's
hidden CSS attributes. My work has been integrated
in Exalead's corporate product One:Search.
SUMMER RESEARCH INTERNSHIP, PURDUE UNIVERSITY, 06/2006 - 08/2006
I worked with Pr. Mikhail Atallah on the dynamic
nearest neighbor problem and how to improve known
results using properties of uniformly distributed
points sets. (see Publications)
I made the talk at the 10th Workshop on Algorithms
and Data Structures (WADS 2007, Halifax, Canada).
WORK EXPERIENCEMEMBER OF TECHNICAL STAFF, ORACLE CORP., REDWOOD CITY, 07/2009 - Present
I am working on Oracle Clusterware, a portable cluster
software providing the infrastructure for Oracle
Real Application, and protection to any Oracle or
third-party application.
TEACHING ASSISTANTSHIP, STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CA, 09/2008 - 3/2009
I assisted Pr. Rosenblum and Pr. Mazieres in CS 140.
(Operating Systems)
SOFTWARE ENGINEER INTERN, APPLE COMPUTER INC, CUPERTINO, 06/2008 - 09/2008
I worked with the Rich Media Group, in charge of Mobile
Safari Hardware Acceleration relying on HTML5 CSS
transformations
SOFTWARE ENGINEER INTERN, EXALEAD SA, PARIS, 04/2007 - 07/2007
(see Research Projects)
CO-FOUNDER, KLEONET, PARIS, 2006
We designed MonDisqueEnLigne, a website that provides
free data storage solutions. I had to implement a
light distributed file system for back-end
scalability and an ajax user interface. We got more
than 6000 subscriptions. Not maintained anymore.
ADMINISTRATOR, DUO CONSEIL X HEC, PARIS, 2005-2006
Student organization providing consulting services to
French and international companies.
LIEUTENANT, PARATROOPERS BRIGADE, FRENCH ARMY, 01/2005 - 5/2005
I carried out various missions in the CS
field. Parachuting.
SOFTWARE ENGINEER INTERN, DATOPS SA, PARIS, 06/2001 - 07/2001
I implemented an algorithm to assist the integration
of web information sources with Datops' data-mining
and monitoring system.
CO-FOUNDER, KLEONET, PARIS, 2000
I created with a friend the start-up Kleonet SARL to
provide website design services.
SKILLSLANGUAGES
French - native, English - fluent, Spanish - basic.
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
Proficient : C++, C, Objective-C
Extensive experience with: Java, OCaml
Experiences with: Python, PHP / SQL, Javascript / CSS
DEVELOPMENT TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS
emacs, gdb, ASSERT .
AWARDS, HONORS
Best Scientific Internship, Ecole Polytechnique, 2007.
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Purdue Univ, 2006.
PUBLICATIONS
DISCREPANCY-SENSITIVE DYNAMIC FRACTIONAL CASCADING, DOMINATED MAXIMA SEARCHING, AND 2-D NEAREST NEIGHBORS IN ANY MINKOWSKI METRIC
with M.V. Blanton, M.J. Atallah, and M.T. Goodrich.
Accepted for publication in Proc. 2007 Workshop on
Algorithms and Data Structures (WADS 2007), Halifax,
Nova Scotia.
Acceptance Rate : 27% (40/150).
INTERESTSSPORT
Rugby (I played on the Ecole Polytechnique A Team)
Skiing