Marwan BADAWI 20 rue de Brest 35000 Rennes, France
27 years old Single Nationality: Lebanese
Mobile : +33-6-22 45 49 04 Email :
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Website: http://marwan.badawi.free.fr
Engineer and Ph.D. in Behavioral Animation and Virtual Reality Work Experience 2002 - 2006 Doctoral thesis in computer science at IRISA, Siames/Bunraku team, Rennes, France. - Thesis subject: Between perception and action: a model for autonomous virtual actors. - Nature of the work: Developing a paradigm for allowing autonomous virtual humans to interact with their environment. - Results: conceived and implemented a simulation kernel associated with an editor to allow the creation of interactive objects for interaction by virtual entities.
Studies 2002 - 2006 Doctoral Thesis in Computer Science, at Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA), Very Honorable Mention, Rennes, France. 1999 - 2002 Computer Science and Networking Engineer, Ecole Supérieure des Ingénieurs de Beyrouth (ESIB), Beirut, Lebanon (head of specialty). 1997 - 1999 Superior and Special Mathematics, Ecole Supérieure des Ingénieurs de Beyrouth (ESIB), Beirut, Lebanon. 1997 French Baccalaureate in Mathematics
Training 2001
Final training at IRISA, Siames Team, Rennes, France (3 months): - Training subject: Integration of peripherals for multimodal interactions within a 3D immersive world. - Nature of the work: Implémentation of drivers for interaction peripherals, and conception and implementation of navigation metaphors within the OpenMASK platform. - Results: Integrated the DataGlove 5D and a SpaceMouse in OpenMASK, and created 3 different virtual navigation models.
2000
Training at Dataflow, Beirut, Lebanon (3 months): Participated in the development of the first Lebanese Wap portal. Work was awarded at Beirut Expo 2000.
1998
Training at Interlink S.A.L., Lebanon (6 weeks): Programmed an online database for the 460 Multimedia Store.
Teaching 2004 - 2006 Workshop and exercises in software conception using UML, in Oracle databases using SQL and PL/SQL, and conception and implementation project using UML/Java, ENSAI, Bruz, France. 2003 - 2005 Workshop and excercises in Java programming, and in software conception using UML, IFSIC, Rennes, France. 2003 - 2005 Workshop in Pentium assembly, and in C programming, INSA, Rennes, France.
Publications 2006
2004
Synoptic objects describing generic interaction processes to autonomous agents in an informed virtual environment, Ph.D. Thesis, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rennes, France. Autonomous Agents Interacting With Their Virtual Environments Through Synoptic Objects, in proceedings of CASA 2004, pages 179-187.
Skills Computer Science: · Operating Systems: Windows, Linux. · Object Oriented Programming: C++, Java. · 3D Visualization: openGL, glut, VRML, OpenSG, OpenInventor, Performer. · GUI: Qt, FLTK. · Conception: UML, Merise. · Database: SQL, PLSQL, ORACLE. · Web: JSP, ASP, JavaScript, VBScript, HTML, WML.
Networking: · Ethernet network configuration. · Windows and Linux administration. · TCP and UDP protocol programming. · Hardware integration and driver development. Other: · Trainee mentoring
Language Skills · · ·
English: read, written, spoken, regular use for over 20 years. French and Arabic: mother tongues. Notions of Spanish and Japanese.
General Skills · · · ·
Autonomous and productive. Pressure and stress management. Efficient teamworker. High capacity for learning and self-tutoring.
Hobbies · · · ·
Active member and organizer within A-Rennes des Jeux, a board game association in Rennes, since 2004. Active member and organizer within La Lune Rousse, the role playing club of the ASCREB association, since 2005. Snowboard, scuba diving (PADI level 2). Video games, movies.
