Medical Engineering
Resume:
Eric Aboussouan, Ph.D.
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PROFILE
Solid CS background, advanced software development experience (C++, Matlab, Python, Java)
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Strong quantitative and analytical skills (Signal/Image Proc., Numerical Methods, Machine Learning)
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Great team player, very good communication and interpersonal skills
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Broad intellectual curiosity and ability
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International culture and experience; will travel / relocate
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Excellent communication in English and French, basic knowledge of Spanish
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EDUCATION
S tanford Graduate School of Business I gnite "mini-MBA", 03/2013
• 2 0% admission rate, top 13% idea selected
B arrow Neurological Institute /Arizona State University Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, 12/2011
• L ab director: Dr. Jim Pipe, leading MRI researcher and VP of ISMRM (main MRI society)
• G PA: 3.9/4.0, GRE Quant: 800/800
P olytechnique Montreal / Nanorobotics Laboratory M .A.Sc. Biomedical Engineering, 06/2006
• Lab director: Dr. Sylvain Martel, Canadian Chairman of NanoRobotics
• GPA: 3.9/4.0
Polytechnique, Montreal & Luleå UT, Sweden B.Eng. Computer Engineering, 06/2004
EXPERIENCES
S tanford University School of Medicine - P ostdoctoral Fellow 0 1/2012 – Present
• P roposed a viable solution to the ~15 year problem of diffusion MRI sensitivity to motion
• D eveloped novel motion correction methods for MRI that will enable 3D diffusion imaging
• M aintained the reconstruction code for large datasets on distributed hardware
L okokai, inc. - F ounder 0 1/2013 – Present
D eveloped a vending machine for greeting and gift cards (Android UI)
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• D eveloped a novel recommender system gift cards based on sparse signals
B arrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ - M edical Imaging Scientist 1 0/2006 – 12/2011
• D eveloped novel image deblurring algorithms using block diagonal linear system inversion
• D esigned and implemented new MRI pulse sequences and motion correction algorithms
• D eveloped expertise in image reconstruction
• C ollaborated with radiologists and scientists at St-Joseph Hospital and GE
G E Global Research, Niskayuna, NY - Consulting Intern 0 6– 08/2010
A pplied Compressed Sensing to speed up Diffusion Spectrum Imaging by 4X
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P olytechnique/Nanorobotics Laboratory, Montreal, Canada - R esearch Assistant 0 4/2004– 09/2006
D eveloped a new real time, sub-millimeter MR tracking method for medical instruments
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• E xpended the range of the positioning system of a fleet of nanorobots by 100X
M atrox Electronic Systems, Montreal, Canada - D eveloper
0 5 – 07/2001
• D eveloped an image grabbing card driver for Linux
0 5 – 08/2000
• P orted imaging C++ libraries and applications to the QNX environment
TECHNICAL SKILLS
C / C++ (10+ years), Matlab (10+ years), Python, Java, SQL, PHP and Javascript
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Signal/image processing (10+ years), time series analysis, computer vision
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Numerical methods, optimization, logistical regression, machine learning, recommender systems
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Convex optimization, conjugate gradient, compressed sensing, regularization, conditioning, dim. reduction
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Software development for Un*x, Windows, OS X and Android environments
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Processing of large datasets with multithreading and Hadoop/MapReduce
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Optimal control, linear systems, Kalman filter, robotics, tracking
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AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
1st place at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Business Case Competition Stanford, 08/2013
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Best Medical Robotics Paper, IEEE ICRA (shared) Kobe, Japan, 05/2009
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1st place at the Projection Reconstruction Challenge at the ISMRM Workshop Sedona, 03/2007
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Top 10 finalist for best student paper at IEEE EMBC NYC, 09/2006
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3rd place in the poster contest in interventional MRI at ISMRM (shared) Seattle, 05/2006
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2006-present
Produced over 20 publications (over 10 as first author)
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Acted as reviewer for NeuroImage, IEEE EMBS and IEEE ICRA 2010-present
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
E . Aboussouan, R. O’Halloran, M. Aksoy, D. Kopeinigg, and R. Bammer "Gated Compensation of Motion-Induced
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Phase Error in 3D for Multi-shot Diffusion Acquisitions"", P roc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. 2 014
E . Aboussouan, R. O’Halloran, A T. Van, M. Aksoy and R. Bammer, "Pre-Compensation of Motion-Induced Phase
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Error in 3D for Multi-shot Diffusion Acquisitions, In preparation for M ag. Reson. Med.
E . Aboussouan a nd J. Pipe, “Deblurring of spiral images in the presence of fat and rapidly varying B 0 ”, P roc. Intl.
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Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. 2 012
E . Aboussouan, L. Marinelli and E. Tan, “Non-Cartesian Compressed Sensing for Diffusion Spectrum Imaging”
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P roc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. 2 011
J . G. Pipe, E . Aboussouan, A. Devaraj, R.K. Robison, K.O. Johnson and N. Zwart “A New Design and Rationale for
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3D Orthogonality Oversampled k-Space Trajectories”, M ag. Reson. Med., 6 6(5) Apr. 2011
E . Aboussouan a nd J. Pipe, “3D PROPELLER-Based Diffusion Weighted Imaging with Improved Robustness to
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Motion” P roc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. 2 010
E . Aboussouan a nd J. Pipe, “3D PROPELLER-Based Diffusion Weighted Imaging” P roc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med.
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O . Felfoul, E . Aboussouan, A. Chanu, and S. Martel, "Real-time Positioning and Tracking Technique for
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Endovascular Untethered Microrobots," I EEE ICRA 2009 ( Best Medical Robotics Paper)
E . Aboussouan a nd S. Martel, “High precision absolute positioning of medical instruments in MRI
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systems,”Proceedings of the 28th IEEE-EMBS 2006 ( Best Student Paper Finalist )
E . Aboussouan, O. Felfoul, J-B. Mathieu, G. Beaudoin, S. Martel, “Real-time projection based technique for
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tracking ferromagnetic devices”, P roc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. 2 006 ( Third Position, iMRI Poster Contest)
PERSONAL INTERESTS
Rock climbing, hiking, running, investing, travel
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