Software Engineer

Jérémy LECOEUR

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**** ********* ****** – Philadelphia, PA 19146 – 615-***-**** Solutions-driven software engineer with an eight-year track record of commended performance in object-oriented programming. Well-versed in all phases of solution development, with a strong working knowledge of algorithms and data structures. Proven success engineering customized solutions improving prognosis and diagnosis of brain diseases. Trained many students to become computer science engineers.

Skills include:

Software Development

Algorithm Creation

GUI Design

Requirements Definition

Coding & Scripting

Debugging & Troubleshooting

Testing & Documentation

Programmer Training

Technology Summary

Programming: C/C++, Python, Java, LaTeX, PHP, HTML, Perl, etc. Software/Libraries: MATLAB, MATHEMATICA, ITK, VTK, XTK, MFC, Qt, etc. Systems: Linux, MacOS and Windows.

Professional Experience

Palantir Technologies – New York City, NY

Forward Deployed Software Engineer, 2015 to present

- Developing custom software, extending existing products, and working with clients to help them understand and leverage their data.

- Manage discussions with the clients to write requirements and specifications for the custom software. Follow up on a weekly schedule about the progress and changes to be made.

- Model the workflow of data for the software and design the UI to abstract it from the customer point of view (ex: querying a database without knowledge of SQL necessary)

- Deploying Hadoop and spark servers to handle big data.

- Integrating large data sources, development of large-scale application at several big companies. University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, PA

Post doctoral researcher, 2012 - 2015

- Lead Programmer of project TITAN: web-based software for Tumor Image and Tractography ANalysis. Managed three other programmers and designed the architecture of both front-end and back- end sides of the project using HTML, PHP, Javascript, C++, Python and Perl. Co-responsible for the patent process.

- Developed algorithms in the area of high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) to improve diagnosis and prognosis of brain diseases.

- Created new measures from HARDI data, axon diameter measures, machine learning, clustering, etc.

- Worked closely with the autism and schizophrenia group of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia to integrate the developed algorithms to the clinical side.

- Mentored two medical student interns for their summer scientific experience. Vanderbilt University - Nashville, TN

Research Associate, 2010 - 2012

- Integrated C++ stand alone programs previously developed by the team in our software to be used by the surgeons during cochlear implantations and deep brain stimulation interventions. Emphasis was given to speed and user friendliness of the interface.

- Developed a high resolution image registration technique for monkey brain functional MRIs to assess cerebral plasticity.

- Developed a multi-scale strategy for registering high resolution anatomical brain MRI sub-volumes.

- Statistical analysis of the temporal bone surface's topography to improve anchors placement in otologic surgery.

- Assisted surgeons in the Operating Room by performing real time registration of pre-operative and intra-operative CT scans.

- Mentored graduate students of MIP lab on their research topics. INRIA - IRISA - Rennes, France

Research Assistant, 2006 - 2010

- Developed a multichannel MRI segmentation technique based on Graph Cut.

- Optimized the spectral gradient operator to multichannel MRI pseudo-color space.

- Created an algorithm for automatic selection of ROI for DTI fiber tracking.

- Worked with neuro-radiologists to improve diagnosis and prognosis of Multiple Sclerosis. France Télécom R&D - Caen, France

Research intern, March – Sept. 2006

- Explored the possibility of extracting self-regenerating cryptographic keys from fingertips.

- Experienced with fingerprint sensor API and software development with MFC. Caen la Mer - Caen, France

Software Development Intern, June – Sept. 2004

- Designed a new database scheme for the department of sanitation of a group of towns.

- Developed a web-based software for managing and interrogating this database. Membership - Services - Awards

Member of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society, the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and the Radiological Society of North America.

Elected representative of the PhD students at the IRISA Laboratory Council. Ad-Hoc Reviewer for the Journal of Neuroscience Methods, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, International Conference on Biometrics and MICCAI International conference. Best poster award at SPIE medical Image Conference 2009 & 2011. Nominated for best article award at MICCAI Conference 2013. Teaching

October 2011: Vanderbilt University - Nashville, TN, USA Invited lecturer in "Advance image processing" class - graduate level Spring Semester 2010: Vanderbilt University - Nashville, TN, USA Instructor of "Intermediate Software Design" Course - undergraduate level Sept. 2007 – Dec. 2009: Louis de Broglie Engineer School - Bruz, France Instructor of "Database", "C/ C++" and "Web Hosting" - undergraduate level Spring Semester 2007: University of South Brittany - Vannes, France Instructor of "Network and Security" - graduate level Education

2006-2010: PhD in Computer Science (summa cum laude) University of Rennes I - Rennes, France

Dissertation topic: Segmentation of multidimensional brain MRIs by graph cut 2004-2006: Master Degree in Computer Science (Valedictorian - magna cum laude) University of Caen Lower Normandy - Caen, France

Major: Image processing and biometrics

2003-2004: Licence in Computer Science

University of Caen Lower Normandy - Caen, France

2000-2003: DEUG (equivalent to associate degree) in Natural Sciences University of Caen Lower Normandy - Caen, France

Major: Computer science

Publication List

Brain tumors of the left temporal lobe produce local and distant changes in fractional anisotropy of key white matter fiber tracts. E. Larkin, J. Lecoeur, K. Abdullah, R. Verma, L. Macyszyn, S. Brem. In Proceedings of Congress of Neurological Surgeons, Boston (USA), October 2014 Addressing the Challenge of Edema in Fiber Tracking. J. Lecoeur, E. Caruyer, M. Elliott, S. Brem, L. Macyszyn, R. Verma. In Proceedings of MICCAI workshop: DTI CHallenge 2014, Boston (USA), September 2014 A comparative study of 16 tractography algorithms for the corticospinal tract: reproducibility and subject- specificity. E. Caruyer, L. Bloy, B. Tunç, J. Lecoeur, V. Shankar, R. Verma. In Proceedings of ISMRM annual conference, Milan (Italy), May 2014

Automated Pipeline for Quantitative Tract Analysis in Diffusion Tensor Images of Glioma patients: Pre- and post- operative tract evaluation in the presence of edema and mass effect. J. Lecoeur, L. Macyszyn, M. Ingalhalikar, C. Davatzikos, R. Wolf, D. M. O'Rourke, S. Brem, R. Verma. In Quantitative Imaging Reading Room (QIRR) at RSNA 2013, Chicago (USA), December 2013

Improving White Matter Tractography by Resolving the Challenges of Edema. J. Lecoeur, E. Caruyer, L. Macyszyn, R. Verma. In Proceedings of MICCAI workshop: DTI CHallenge 2013, Nagoya (Japan), September 2013

Reproducibility of connectivity based parcellation - primary visual cortex,. J. Lecoeur, M. Ingalhalikar, R. Verma. In Proceedings of ISMRM annual conference, Salt Lake City (USA), May 2013 Variability of the temporal bone surface’s topography: implication for otologic surgery. J. Lecoeur, J. H. Noble, R. Balachandran, R.F. Labadie, B.M. Dawant. In Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, San Diego

(USA), February 2012

Automated longitudinal registration of high resolution structural MRI brain sub-volumes in non-human primates. J. Lecoeur, F. Wang, L.M. Chen, R. Li, M.J. Avison, B.M. Dawant. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, vol. 202, num. 1, pp. 99 – 108, October 2011

Sub millimeter coregistration of functional maps across imaging sessions. J. Lecoeur, F. Wang, L.M. Chen, R. Li, B.M. Dawant, M.J. Avison. In Proceedings of ISMRM annual conference, Montreal (Canada), May 2011 Co-registration of high resolution MRI sub-volumes in non human primates. J. Lecoeur, F. Wang, L.M. Chen, R. Li, M.J. Avison, B.M. Dawant. In Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, Orlando (USA), February 2011

Segmentation of the thalamus in multi-spectral MR images using a combination of atlas-based and gradient graph cut methods, R. Datteri, C. Barillot, B. Dawant, J. Lecoeur. In Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, San Diego (USA), February 2010

Segmentation d'IRM cérébrales multidimensionnelles par coupe de graphe. J. Lecoeur. PhD thesis. University of Rennes I, Rennes (France), January 2010

Segmentation multimodale optimale par coupe de graphe multispectral: applications aux lésions de sclérose en plaque en IRM. J. Lecoeur, J.-C. Ferré, C. Barillot. In Actes du 17ème congrès francophone sur la Reconnaissance des Formes et Intelligence Artificielle, Caen (France), January 2010 Multiple Sclerosis lesion segmentation using an automatic multimodal Graph Cuts. D. Garcia-Lorenzo, J. Lecoeur, D.L. Arnold, D.L. Collins, C. Barillot. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI'09), Part II, volume 5762 of LNCS, pages 584-591, London (UK), September 2009

Optimized supervised segmentation of MS lesions from multispectral MRIs. J. Lecoeur, J.-C. Ferré, C. Barillot. In Proceedings of MICCAI workshop on Medical Image Analysis on Multiple Sclerosis (validation and methodological issues), London (UK), September 2009 Multi Channel MRI Segmentation with Graph Cuts using Spectral Gradient and Multidimensional Mixture Model. J. Lecoeur, J.-C. Ferré, S. Morissey, D. Collins, C. Barillot. In Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging Conference, Orlando (USA), February 2009

Multiple Sclerosis Lesions Segmentation using Spectral Gradient and Graph Cuts. J. Lecoeur, S. Morissey, J.- C. Ferré, D. Arnold, D. Collins, C. Barillot. In Proceedings of MICCAI workshop on Medical Image Analysis on Multiple Sclerosis (validation and methodological issues), New-York (USA), September 2008 Segmentation d’images cérébrales: État de l’art. J. Lecoeur and C. Barillot. INRIA Research Report, N 6306, Rennes (France), September 2007

Biometric fuzzy extractors made practical: a proposal based on FingerCodes. V. Viet Triem Tong, H. Sibert, J. Lecoeur, M. Girault. In Advances in Biometrics – Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Biometrics, Seoul (South Korea), August 2007here is my FingerKey, un cryptosystème biométrique pour l’authentification. V. Viet Triem Tong, H. Sibert, J. Lecoeur, M. Girault. In Actes de la Deuxième Conférence sur la Sécurité des Architectures Réseaux et des Systèmes d’Informations, Lyon (France), June 2007

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