CV informatics - Alexandre Alapetite

Current situation

I live in couple in Copenhagen, Denmark, since April 2003.
I have just defended my PhD thesis on speech recognition for anaesthesia records (December 2007), 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

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

PhD student	11/2003 - 12/2006	Risø National Laboratory, Roskilde University (Ruc), Denmark
PhD on speech recognition during anaesthesia, within the Advises European research training network. Participation in the Cogain European Network of Excellence for Communication by Gaze Interaction for disabled people. Participation in the See European project (infrared vision, aviation & automotive). (C#.NET, SVG) Presentations and courses on XHTML+VoiceXML 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 and development	04/2003 - 09/2003	Risø National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark
Traineeship at Risø Danish national laboratory, in partnership with other companies like EADS Airbus (FR). Conception of demos of voice control in plane 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 (3-person team)	10/2001 - 01/2002	Cirad, Montpellier, France
Internship at Inra.CBGP for the Cirad, international centre for agronomic research for development. Identification of animal and plant populations using statistical comparisons of their DNA. (Delphi6, Kylix2, XML, Lex & Yacc, clustering (distributed calculation)) `doi:10.1093/jhered/esh074`

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

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. Services: DHCP, FTP, HTTP with a PHP Website with Apache for upload/download files.

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

Post-doc

08/2007 - 06/2008

Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

Research assistant

01/2007 - 06/2007

IT University of Copenhagen (ITU), Denmark

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

PhD student

11/2003 - 12/2006

Risø National Laboratory, Roskilde University (Ruc), Denmark

PhD on speech recognition during anaesthesia, within the Advises European research training network.
Participation in the Cogain European Network of Excellence for Communication by Gaze Interaction for disabled people.
Participation in the See European project (infrared vision, aviation & automotive). (C#.NET, SVG)
Presentations and courses on XHTML+VoiceXML 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 and development

04/2003 - 09/2003

Risø National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark

Traineeship at Risø Danish national laboratory, in partnership with other companies like EADS Airbus (FR).
Conception of demos of voice control in plane 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 (3-person team)

10/2001 - 01/2002

Cirad, Montpellier, France

Internship at Inra.CBGP for the Cirad, international centre for agronomic research for development.
Identification of animal and plant populations using statistical comparisons of their DNA. (Delphi6, Kylix2, XML, Lex & Yacc, clustering (distributed calculation)) doi:10.1093/jhered/esh074

Research and development (4-person team)

06/2001

Lirmm, Montpellier, France

Internship at the Lirmm laboratory of Montpellier: Graphical representation in Java, XML of some algorithms on mathematical trees.

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.
Services: DHCP, FTP, HTTP with a PHP Website with Apache for upload/download files.

Software developer Intranet-Internet (2-person team)

04/2000 - 06/2000

University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK

Internship: development of an Internet real-time chat in Java (Application, Applet, Servlet, JDBC, JavaScript) to connect students all around the town to their teachers (hundreds of heterogeneous computers: WinNT, Win9x, Win3.x, Solaris, Linux,...).

Computer Skills

General knowledge:

Mathematics, statistics and accountancy notions. Wide informatics knowledge.
Object-orientated modelling and programming with UML before implementation in Java, C#.NET, Delphi... (Wide experience for more than 4 years)
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Optimisation (sorting, research, ...), Regular expressions.
Pattern recognition (sounds and pictures).
Notions of Distributed Algorithmic.
Multimedia: notions of image, sound and video compression; audio and video editing.
Some software: Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator, Quark XPress, Matlab, ...

Programming languages:

C#.NET: Good knowledge of the language and the framework. Few projects under Microsoft Visual Studio and SharpDevelop. (1 year of experience)
Java: Good knowledge of the language, libraries (AWT, SWING,...) and tools like Borland JBuilder and IBM WebSphere. Knowledge of Applets, Servlets and general programming like network, database, graphics,... (3 years of experience)
Delphi, Kylix: (Pascal) Exhaustive knowledge for general programming (heavy calculation, graphics, network,...).
C++: Same knowledge as Java in general programming. Experience with CBuilder. A little knowledge of C for system programming.
Visual Basic, Lisp, Prolog : Knowledge.
Lex & Yacc: Good knowledge. Used to generate genetics file analysers.

Internet technologies:

PHP: Good knowledge. 4 years of experience in general programming, database connection with ODBC or MySQL, graphics generation, upload,...
HTML/XHTML/CSS/SVG: Expert. Coding by hand. Realisation of an XHTML and XML validator.
XML/XSL/XPath: Very good knowledge. Utilisation with C#, PHP, JavaScript, Java, Delphi... Knowledge and using of RDF, RSS... Made a migration library from PHP4/DOMXML/XSLT to PHP5/DOM/XSL.
JavaScript/ECMAScript: Very good knowledge. General programming, events listening, data validation.
VoiceXML, XHTML+VoiceXML: Good knowledge. Used with Opera browser. JSGF grammars in English and French under IBM WebSphere. Invited to give some presentations of X+V and one university course.
SVG: Used SVG 1.1 Tiny to plot data of plane trajectories.
Xul (Netscape and Mozilla plug-ins) : Made a plug-in for voice recognition.
ASP, CGI(Perl), ActiveX, VBScript: a little knowledge.

Databases:

SQL: Good knowledge with 3 years of experience. Used with PHP. Theoretical knowledge of Merise.
PLSQL, Silverun, Softeam Objecteering: A little knowledge.
Experience of Access, Oracle, Paradox, MySQL and ODBC (with PHP or ASP), JDBC, myBase & 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 the versions (3.x,9x,Me / NT,2000 / XP) of networks and administration. MS-DOS batch.
Linux: Knowledge of shell. Little experience of administration. Knowledge of networks (Intranet, proxy).
MacOS: Knowledge of configuration of networks.
Heterogeneous networks: Experience of networks with Windows, Linux and MacOS.

Hardware:

Intel, AMD, ...: broad experience with lots of PCs built since 1996.
Intel 8086 assembler, Microchip PIC16F84 assembler: A little knowledge.

Other skills

Languages:

French: Native language
English: Very good working knowledge (many stays in England)
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 play the Saxophone.
I contribute to the free encyclopaedia Wikipedia. I have presented Wikipedia at the University of Copenhagen in 2005.

Updated 2008-03-28

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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