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Olivier Cuisenaire, Ph.D.

Professional Experience

02/00 - Signal Processing Lab. – EPFL Lausanne, CH

Senior Research Assistant

Elaboration of new algorithms for the characterization of carotid plaques by innovative tissue harmonic ultrasound imaging in order to reduce neurological complications after cardiovascular surgery.

10/99 - 01/00 Comm. and Remote Sensing Lab. – UCL Louvain-la-Neuve, BE

Senior Research Assistant

Development of a registration and 3D visualization software for the interpretation of multiple trans-cranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) experiments using a single magnetic resonance image (MRI) per patient.

07/99 - 08/99 Surgical Planning Laboratory – MIT/Harvard Boston, MA, USA

Visiting Researcher

Algorithmic development and software implementation of improved path-planning techniques for virtual endoscopy.

09/95-09/99 Comm. and Remote Sensing Lab. – UCL Louvain-le-Neuve, BE

PhD Student (FRIA bursar), Research Assistant.

Elaboration and testing of new distance transformation algorithms and other mathematical morphology tools. Study of active contour and active surface models for 3D image segmentation, including their implementation using finite element methods.

Application of those tools to medical image processing, including 3D rigid and non-rigid registration, brain atlas matching, template-based MRI segmentation, statistical voxel classification of multi-modal images, analysis of cytological images,

Supervision of several master thesis and participation to lecturing.

Education

10/1999 Universit catholique de Louvain (UCL) Louvain-le-Neuve, BE

Doctorat en sciences appliqu es (PhD thesis): Distance transformations: fast algorithms and applications to medical image processing .

1990-1995 Universit catholique de Louvain (UCL) Louvain-le-Neuve, BE

Ing nieur civil lectricien (electrical engineering), Summa cum laude every year. Master thesis on Automatic Registration of MR Images with a Computerized Brain Atlas .

02/95 – 05/95 Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) Barcelona, SP

Working on part of the master thesis with Prof. F. Marques. (Erasmus stay)

Awards

1999 SPIE Medical Imaging 1999 San Diego, CA, USA

Poster award for Automatic segmentation and measurement of axons in microscopic images

1990 International Mathematical Olympiads Peking, China

Selected as one of the six Belgian competitors in the IMO. Did not participate due to the boycott of the competition by Belgium.

1985-1990 Belgian Mathematical Olympiads Namur, BE

Finalist for six consecutive years (unique achievement in that generation). First price (2nd place) in 1990.

Publications

Please refer to attached list.

Computer Literacy

OS: MS-DOS, Windows 95-98-NT, Unix (Solaris), Linux.

Programming Languages: Pascal, C, C++, X-Motif, Tcl/Tk, VTK.

Languages

Language reading writing listening speaking

French native native native native

English very good very good very good very good

Spanish very good satisfactory good satisfactory

Dutch satisfactory basic satisfactory basic

I also have a good knowledge of Latin and basic knowledge of Sanskrit.

Extra-curricular Activities

1996-1998 Board of European Students of Technology http://www.BEST.eu.org

Founding member of the Summer Program committee, coordinating 45 summer courses around Europe for nearly 1000 students every year. Founding member of the Educational Issues committee, organizing conferences on engineering education.

Member of the Executive committee and co-treasurer of H3E, a Socrates thematic network in collaboration with CESAER and SEFI, rectors and academics from most European engineering schools. See http://www.HEEE.eu.org

Webmaster of http://www.BEST.eu.org and http://www.HEEE.eu.org.

1992-1995 Board of European Students of Technology Louvain-la-Neuve, BE

Treasurer, secretary, then president of the UCL local BEST group.

Sports (field hockey, squash), reading, travelling.

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