CV informatics - Alexandre Alapetite

Current situation

I live in couple in Copenhagen, Denmark, since April 2003.
In December 2007, I have defended my PhD thesis on speech recognition for anaesthesia records, and I am currently employed at the Technical University of Denmark.

Perso

E-mail: alexandre@alapetite.net
Web: http://alexandre.alapetite.net/cv/
Mobile: +45.61.69.52.47
Address: Vanløse; Danmark

Pro

E-mail: alexandre.alapetite@risoe.dk
Telephone: +45.46.77.51.82
Fax.: +45.46.77.51.99
Address: Danmarks Tekniske Universitet; Risø campus, SYS.110; Frederiksborgvej 399, P.O. 49; DK-4000 Roskilde, Danmark

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Work Experience

Research & development (Post-doc)	08/2007 - 06/2008	Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Department of Management Engineering
Research & development (Research assistant)	01/2007 - 06/2007	IT University of Copenhagen (ITU), Department of Innovative Communication, Denmark
Systems architect for the Spopos project, providing services based on the location of passengers in airports. (Bluetooth, RFID, Apache Tomcat, Servlets Java, Soap, XML-RPC) User interfaces. Data analysis. (SVG)

Research & development (PhD student)	11/2003 - 12/2006	Risø National Laboratory, Systems Analysis Department, Roskilde, Denmark
PhD on speech recognition during anaesthesia, within the Advises European research training network on Analysis Design and Validation of Interactive Safety-critical and Error-tolerant Systems. Participation in the See European project (infrared vision, aviation & automotive). (C#.NET, SVG) Participation in the Cogain European Network of Excellence for Communication by Gaze Interaction for disabled people. Presentations and courses on multimodal human-computer interfaces, XHTML+Voice and related Web standards. 2003-11 - 2004-01 Webmaster: Development of an accessible Web site. (XML, PHP, Access, ODBC, RDF/RSS1.0, XHTML1.1, CSS2) I followed some Danish lessons.

Research & development (Master student)	04/2003 - 09/2003	Risø National Laboratory, Systems Analysis Department, Roskilde, Denmark
Master project within the SafeSound European project on Safety improvement by means of sound. Realisation of HCI prototypes of voice control in aircraft cockpits. (Nuance, Microsoft Sapi5, Visual Basic, Java) As a secondary project, realisation of a plug-in adding voice control to the Web browser Mozilla. (Xul, Microsoft Sapi5)

Software developer bioinformatics	10/2001 - 01/2002	Cirad, Montpellier, France
Internship at Inra.CBGP for the Cirad, international centre for agronomic research for development. Software for identification of animal and plant populations using statistical comparisons of their DNA. (3-person team) (Delphi6, Kylix2, XML, Lex & Yacc) Clustering (distributed calculation).

Research & development	06/2001	Lirmm, Montpellier, France
Internship at the Lirmm laboratory of Montpellier: Graphical representation in Java, XML of some algorithms on mathematical trees. (4-person team)

Network administrator	08/2000	Avignon, France
Creation and configuration of a Linux server for a heterogeneous intranet (MacOS & Win2K) with firewall and proxy to open it on the Internet. (DHCP, FTP, HTTP with Apache, PHP upload).

Software developer	04/2000 - 06/2000	University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
Internship: development of an Internet/intranet real-time chat in Java (2-person team) (Application, Applet, JDBC, JavaScript) connecting students around the town to their teachers (hundreds of heterogeneous computers: WinNT, Win9x, Win3.x, Solaris, Linux,…).

Research & development (Post-doc)

08/2007 - 06/2008

Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Department of Management Engineering

Research & development (Research assistant)

01/2007 - 06/2007

IT University of Copenhagen (ITU), Department of Innovative Communication, Denmark

Systems architect for the Spopos project, providing services based on the location of passengers in airports. (Bluetooth, RFID, Apache Tomcat, Servlets Java, Soap, XML-RPC)
User interfaces. Data analysis. (SVG)

Research & development (PhD student)

11/2003 - 12/2006

Risø National Laboratory, Systems Analysis Department, Roskilde, Denmark

PhD on speech recognition during anaesthesia, within the Advises European research training network on Analysis Design and Validation of Interactive Safety-critical and Error-tolerant Systems.
Participation in the See European project (infrared vision, aviation & automotive). (C#.NET, SVG)
Participation in the Cogain European Network of Excellence for Communication by Gaze Interaction for disabled people.
Presentations and courses on multimodal human-computer interfaces, XHTML+Voice and related Web standards.
2003-11 - 2004-01 Webmaster: Development of an accessible Web site. (XML, PHP, Access, ODBC, RDF/RSS1.0, XHTML1.1, CSS2)
I followed some Danish lessons.

Research & development (Master student)

04/2003 - 09/2003

Risø National Laboratory, Systems Analysis Department, Roskilde, Denmark

Master project within the SafeSound European project on Safety improvement by means of sound.
Realisation of HCI prototypes of voice control in aircraft cockpits. (Nuance, Microsoft Sapi5, Visual Basic, Java)
As a secondary project, realisation of a plug-in adding voice control to the Web browser Mozilla. (Xul, Microsoft Sapi5)

Software developer bioinformatics

10/2001 - 01/2002

Cirad, Montpellier, France

Internship at Inra.CBGP for the Cirad, international centre for agronomic research for development.
Software for identification of animal and plant populations using statistical comparisons of their DNA. (3-person team) (Delphi6, Kylix2, XML, Lex & Yacc)
Clustering (distributed calculation).

Research & development

06/2001

Lirmm, Montpellier, France

Internship at the Lirmm laboratory of Montpellier: Graphical representation in Java, XML of some algorithms on mathematical trees. (4-person team)

Network administrator

08/2000

Avignon, France

Creation and configuration of a Linux server for a heterogeneous intranet (MacOS & Win2K) with firewall and proxy to open it on the Internet. (DHCP, FTP, HTTP with Apache, PHP upload).

Software developer

04/2000 - 06/2000

University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK

Internship: development of an Internet/intranet real-time chat in Java (2-person team) (Application, Applet, JDBC, JavaScript) connecting students around the town to their teachers (hundreds of heterogeneous computers: WinNT, Win9x, Win3.x, Solaris, Linux,…).

Informatics Skills

General knowledge:

Mathematics, statistics, and accountancy notions. Wide informatics knowledge.
Human-computer interaction (HCI), multi-modality, speech interfaces.
Expert in Web technologies.
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Pattern recognition (sounds and pictures), Optimisation (sorting, research…), Distributed Algorithmic.
Object-orientated modelling (UML) and programming. Functional programming.
Multimedia: notions of image, sound and video compression; graphics (Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator); audio and video editing.
Software: Microsoft Office, SPSS…

Programming languages:

C#.NET: Extensive knowledge of the language and the framework. (Visual Studio, SharpDevelop, Mono).
Java: Very good knowledge of the language, libraries (AWT, Swing…). (IBM WebSphere, Borland JBuilder). Experience with Applets, Servlets (JSP and JSPX under Apache Tomcat), and MIDlets (J2ME) on mobile phones
Pascal, Delphi, Kylix: Large experience with general programming (heavy calculation, graphics, network…).
C++: A little experience (Borland CBuilder, Visual Studio). A little knowledge of C for system programming.
Regular expressions: Very good knowledge. Lex & Yacc: Good knowledge, used to generate genetics file analysers.
Visual Basic, Lisp, Prolog: Knowledge.

Internet technologies:

HTML/XHTML/CSS/SVG: Expert, fluent “by hand”. Made an XHTML/XML validator (e.g. Relax NG, Schematron…).
XML technologies (e.g. XSL/XPath/XML Schema): Very good knowledge. Utilisation with C#, PHP, JavaScript, Java, Delphi…
Semantic Web (e.g. RDF/RSS/Ontologies): Good knowledge.
Web Services (e.g. REST, Soap/WSDL): Knowledge.
VoiceXML, JSGF, XHTML+Voice: Good knowledge. Invited to give some university courses on X+V. (Opera, WebSphere).
PHP: Expert. Large experience. Made a popular Open Source migration library from PHP4/DOMXML/XSLT to PHP5/DOM/XSL.
JavaScript/ECMAScript: Large experience on the Web; security aspects. Xul (Netscape and Mozilla plug-ins): Made a plug-in for speech recognition.
ASP, CGI(Perl), ActiveX, VBScript: A little knowledge.

Databases:

SQL: Good knowledge, used with PHP, Java… PLSQL: A little knowledge. Theoretical knowledge of Merise.
Experience of ODBC, Microsoft Access, MySQL. A little experience of Oracle, Paradox, JDBC, BDE (Delphi).

Networks / Administration / Systems:

Internet / Web: Very good knowledge of Apache and HTTP (made an HTTP optimisation library for PHP). Knowledge of Microsoft IIS, networks architectures (TCP/IP).
Windows: Broad experience on all versions (3.x/9x/NT/XP/Vista) of networks and administration. MS-DOS batch.
Linux (Ubuntu): A little experience of shell, administration, network servers (intranet, proxy). MacOS (9, X): A little experience.
Heterogeneous networks: Experience of networks with Windows, Linux and MacOS.

Hardware:

Intel, AMD, IBM…: broad experience with lots of PCs built since 1996.
Intel 8086 assembler, Microchip PIC16F84 assembler: A little knowledge.
Lego Mindstorms NXT building and programming (NXT-G, NXC): Good knowledge. Robots, sensors, interaction with computers.

Other skills

Languages:

French: Native language
English: Very good working knowledge
Danish: Good level (5 years in Denmark)
Italian: Understanding (some stays in Italy)
Spanish: Some notions

Miscellaneous:

Clean driving licence. Experience in Europe
Many sports such as tennis, gymnastics, climbing, volleyball, diving, trampoline (in clubs), and skiing, mountaineering, windsurfing, running, mountain bike… (see photos)
Music: I played the Saxophone.
I contribute to Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia since 2003. I have presented Wikipedia at the University of Copenhagen in 2005.

Updated 2008-05-21

Year	Academic degree	School
2003-2007	Doctor of informatics	PhD in human-computer interaction, Roskilde University, Denmark
2002-2003	Master in Artificial intelligence, Pattern recognition, Robotics	DESS IRR, University of Toulouse III, France
2000-2002	Master of Engineering in Mathematics and Informatics (with honours)	B.ASc and M.ASc, IUP GMI, University of Montpellier II, France
1998-2000	Associate of Science in Informatics	IUT, University of Montpellier II, France
1997-1998	High school diploma in sciences, mathematics	Théodore Aubanel High School, Avignon, France

		Alexandre Alapetite		27 years old (1980-11-24)
		Alexandre Alapetite		+45.61.69.52.47
		Doctor of informatics		alexandre@alapetite.net
				http://alexandre.alapetite.net

Alexandre Alapetite

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