Josiane YANKAM NJIWA

PhD, INSA of Lyon

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Phone: +33 (0) 6 51 10 77 17

E-mail: acafkc@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

A well versed, highly motivated Image Processing R&D Engineer with successful recent track

record in clinical & preclinical research and development biomedical engineering,

neurosciences, processing, image reconstruction, segmentation, and registration. Ambitious

project manager, experienced in driving multidisciplinary projects from development to

completion. Recognized for exceptional problem solving and motivational skills as the ability

to negotiate, deal and successfully bridge across cultural and hierarchical barriers. Bilingual

(French, English), basic knowledge of German with extensive international experience.

AREAS OF EFFECTIVENESS

Image and signal processing Clinical/ preclinical research Project development &

Management

Biomedical engineering Neurosciences Accounting

Software development MRI /PET/CT Economics

Computer science Systems, Technical support Financial Risk Management

Electrical engineering Animal welfare Marketing

Automatic and automatism Teaching Strategic Planning

Applied mathematics Organizational behavior

RECENT CARREER HIGHLIGHTS

Epilepsy MRI/PET/CT imaging

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Successfully establish the role of FMZ and FDG PET for the presurgical investigation

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in epilepsy.SPM implementation of a biomarker based classification method for

counselling epilepsy surgery candidates

Successfully implement machine learning classification for preoperative prognostic in

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epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis

Study of neuroinflamation in epilepsy (Clinical and preclinical studies): Longitudinal

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preclinical studies in rodents using PET/CT and MRI to investigate the capabilities of

the [11C]PK11195 PET to image inflammation in epilepsy

Multi atlas segmentation of rodent data to perform analyses of longitudinal rodent

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data sets

Quantitative analyses of [11C]PK11195 PET rodent brain images

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Successfully developed image processing protocols for rodents (Image registration,

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Image segmentation, Data Analysis)

Projects initiation and strategic plan writing

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Projects, strategic plan and ethics committee documents (For humans & animals)

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writing

Successfully developed new algorithms for parallel image reconstruction for

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accelerating MRI acquisition dedicated to DSC-MRI

Setting up a protocol for imaging spinal cord in mice for pain fMRI studies

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Trainings: Bruker Pulse programming, Bruker MR/MRS advanced imaging, LTK 1, the

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KCL PET training, Neuroanatomy of human and rat brain

ACHIEVEMENTS

Successfully completed a MBA (Accounting, Developing Effective Managers &

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Leaders, Economics, Finance, Marketing, Financial Risk Management,

Organisational Behaviour, Project Management, Strategic Planning

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

11.02 to present Neurodis Foundation, Lyon, France

Scientist & Project

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A nationally funded Research and

manager

Patient Care Network

07.12-11.01 Institute for Biomedical Engineering,

Research scientist

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ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Division of molecular imaging and

functional pharmacology

04.10-07.11 CREATIS, INSA of Lyon, France

Research scientist

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Research unit in medical imaging

DATA PROCESSING KNOWLEDGE

Programming: C/C++, Matlab, R, IDL, Assembleur, OS: Windows, Linux, Unix

Visual Basic, Python, HTML, HP VEE, JavaScript,

TestPoint, VHDL, Access

Graph tools: Excel, Axum, Origin Versioning: cvs

Data analysis: FSL, ImageJ, mricro, NiftiReg, SPM Tools: cmake

Networking: LAN, CAN, ETHERNET, FTP Libraries: ITK

EDUCATION

Conferral of MBA Edinburgh Business School 13.07

Conferral of doctorate in Image Processing INSA Lyon, France 07.10

Master in Image Processing INSA Lyon, France 04.07

AWARDS

Travel bursary for the European Conference on Epileptology, ECE, (2012)

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Best poster Label at the ECE congress (2012)

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EXTRA CURRICULAR INTERESTS

Member of ISMRM, SFGBM, SdN (Neurosciences society)

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Member of ONLY LYON (Lyon’s ambassadors)

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Actively involved in the ‘Language Clinic’ team for proof reading scientific documents

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written in English

Co-author of more than 20 contributions in international referred journals &

conferences

Reviewer for international referred journals & conferences

REFERENCES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST

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