Project Manager Engineering

Frederic F. LEYMARIE

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EDUCATION

Brown UniversityDivision of

Engineering / Providence, RI, USA

Ph.D. thesis on "Three-Dimensional

Shape Representation via Shock Flows," May 2003.

Awards: IBM

PhD Fellowship (1999-2000); Sigma Xi Outstanding Graduate

Student Research Award (2002).

McGill UniversityElectrical

Engineering / Montreal, Canada / 1990

Master's of Engineering: thesis in biomedical imagery: "Tracking and

Describing Deformable Objects Using Active Contour Models."

Award: Postgraduate Fellowship of the Natural Sciences and Engineering

Research Council of Canada .

Polytechnic School

of Montreal / Electrical Engineering / Canada / 1986

Bachelor of Engineering: GPA: 3.83/4; honors in aeronautics; internship

at, Inc.

Awards: from Bechtel Inc. (1984), Montreal University (1985), NSERC

Summer fellowship (1986).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Manager and Researcher : The . /

Brown University / 2003-present

Co-wrote a second to the National Science

Foundation (NSF),

in support to the second phase of the SHAPE Lab. (funding of more than

2 million USD over 4 years).

R&D Project Leader and Researcher : The . /

Brown University / 1998-2002

Initiated a successful proposal to the National Science Foundation (NSF), which

has lead to the establishment of the SHAPE lab. in late 1999 (funding

of 1.5 million USD over 3 years; (see www.lems.brown.edu/vision/extra/SHAPE/ ).

Developed a research plan in pattern analysis (see www.lems.brown.edu/vision/researchAreas/Shocks3D/

).

Invented and implemented new algorithms based on differential

calculus, computational geometry, optimization techniques, multi-scale

data analysis, and pattern recognition, with applications to object

modeling and virtual reality systems (patent pending).

Initiated international collaborations with the Institute of Computer

Graphics of the

Technical University of Graz (Austria), the Computer Vision Center of Barcelona (Spain), the

Italian National Research Council (,

Rome), the Sorbonne (Paris, France).

Project manager : Syseca (now Thales) / Thomson-CSF

/ Paris, France / 1994-97

Managed French and European projects (2 to 10 people) in the fields of

Geography, Multimodal interfaces, Technology transfer, Environmental

Emergency Management Systems.

Performed client reporting and negotiations, budget bookkeeping,

proposal and report writing and presentations, software design, as well

as business development activities.

Managed the

project - 4 R&D teams in 3 countries (France, Germany,

Netherlands) - funded by the European Commission; offshoot of this

project: .

Built a European consortium of R&D labs to prepare a proposal on

the digital cities of the future .

SKILLS

Written and Oral skills :

Authored and presented (20+) papers at professional conferences in

North America and Europe.

Invited speaker in

('01),

('01),

('00), Graz ('98), Berlin & Ispra (European Commission, '97).

First of technical peer-reviewed

journal papers.

One (provisional) US patent: "Method and apparatus for

multi-dimensional shape representation via shock flows," filed

October 18, 2002.

Reviewer (in the past 3 years) for,

ACM's Solid Modeling and Applications and conferences, ACM's Journal of

Computing And Information Science In Engineering, SPIE's Journal of

Electronic Imaging, Kluwer's Acta Applicandae

Mathematicae.

Programming/Computing :

Advanced computational programming (cellular automata, geometry, image

processing, numerical analysis, optimization, statistics), mainly in

the C language.

Also experienced in Lisp (object oriented design and implementation of

expert systems), C++ (graphical environment), Fortran,

Matlab/Maple/Mathematica.

Business and Leadership Experience :

Founding member of the Brown University Biotech Interest Group, 2002-3.

Participated in the Brown Entrepreneurship

Program in 1999. Co-wrote two business plans on

"electronic content publishing," and "investment clubs

on the internet."

Languages :

Bilingual French - English.

Elementary German & Spanish.

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