Gérard SUBSOL

French citizen Born on November 4th, 1967 in Versailles, France Married, 1 child

2, lotissement de Tamaroque 11490 Portel des Corbières, France Mobile phone: (+33) 6 70 80 61 04 Mail: [email protected] Web site: http://site.voila.fr/subsol

Experienced R&D engineer / senior researcher in multimedia and applications 2D / 3D image processing

Speech processing

Virtual Reality

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND • 2003: Qualification for being a Lecturer at University and at the French Museum of Natural History, in the sections 26 (Applied Mathematics and applications of Mathematics) and 27 (Computer Science). • 1992-1995: Ph.D. in Computer Science of the École Centrale Paris with high honors. • 1988-1991: Engineer Diploma of the École Centrale Paris, with a 3rd year option in Applied Mathematics.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE • 2003-...: (Unpaid) researcher in Computer Science: creation and coordination of the research project FOVEA (http://foveaproject.free.fr), partially funded by the CNRS, in collaboration with the Dept. of Prehistory of the French Museum of Natural History, the Institute of Research in Computer Science, Toulouse, France, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France and the European Center of Prehistoric Research of Tautavel, France; organization of the international conference Virtual Storytelling’03 in collaboration with the company C-S et IRIT. • 2000-2002: Research Engineer with LIA - Laboratory of Computer Science, University of Avignon / CNRS, France: coordination of the research activities related to the European Project SMADA - Speech Driven Multimodal Automatic Directory Assistance; development of new algorithms for the voice recognition of proper names • 1996-2000: Expert Engineer with EPIDAURE Project, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France: research activities in 3D image processing; participation or supervision of academic (Hospital of Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris; INSERM; Laboratory of Anthropology of the Faculty of Medicine / CNRS, Marseille, France; French Museum of Natural History; Musée de l'Homme, Paris, France; Laboratory of Forensic Medicine and Anthropology, University of Nice, France; Magnetic Resonance and Image Analysis Research Centre University of Liverpool, U.K.; Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, U.S.A.), industrial (CRIL Ingéniérie, C-S , Elf, Medtronic, SanofiSynthélabo) and European (BIOMORPH, QAMRIC Projects) collaborations. • 1996: 6-week Post-Doctoral stay at the Neurology Department of Guy's Hospital, London, U.K.: assessment of the accuracy of 3D medical images registration. • 1992-1995: Ph.D. Student with EPIDAURE Project, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France: development of algorithms in 2D and 3D image processing - landmark extraction, inter-patient registration, quantitative analysis of deformations - in order to build automatically morphometrical anatomic atlases from 3D medical images. • 1991-1992: National service as Scientific Officer at the Ecole de Spécialisation de l'Aviation Légère de l'Armée de Terre, Dax, France: design and implementation of a Computer-Based Training system for helicopter pilots. • 1991: Master's Thesis in collaboration with Alcatel-Alsthom Recherche: modeling symbolically the environment of a mobile robot. • 1990-1991: Master's Project in collaboration with MS2I, subsidiary of the Matra Group: modeling the surface of the planet Mars. • 1990: 2-month Training Period in the Compagnie Générale d'Informatique, 6 weeks in the English subsidiary, near London, U.K.: translation of the demonstration version of a management software running on a mainframe.

LANGUAGES • French: native speaker. • English: fluently speaking and writing. • Russian: able to read.

DEVELOPMENT OF ALGORITHMS AND IMPLEMENTATION • 2002-...: Development of a program to model, visualize and interact with 2D and 3D cellular automata, in C and Tcl/Tk under Windows.

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2000-2002: Development of Speech Processing programs in C and Perl under Unix et Windows. 1992-2000: Development of 3D image processing programs in C under Unix. 2000-2002: Creation of Web sites (personal site, French Working Group, international conferences) in HTML. 1991: Development of a symbolic modelling of the environment of a mobile robot in C++ with a Motif interface. 1990: Development of a multi-player interactive adventure game on a Token Ring network in Pascal.

• 1980-1991: Learning of several computer languages: "fluent" programming in Basic, Pascal, C, C++ and notions of Lisp and Prolog.

2D AND 3D IMAGE PROCESSING • 1992-...: Expert in segmentation, registration, landmark extraction and morphometrical analysis of 2D and 3D

images. Author or co-author of more than 30 scientific papers published in journals of international conference proceedings with Program Committee in Computer Science, Medicine or Paleo-Anthropology.

• 1998 & 2003: Invited author of 3 chapters of the books Brain Warping and Computer-Graphic Facial Reconstruction published by Academic Press.

• 1998: Invited lecturer at the Ph.D. Summer School Shape Variation, Copenhagen (Denmark). • 1998: Co-organizer of the international workshop IEEE Model-Based 3D Image Analysis associated to the conference ICCV' 98, Mumbai (India): budget management, creation of the Web site, edition of the proceedings with an international Program Committee.

• 1992-...: Reviewer of papers submitted to international journals and conferences. SPEECH PROCESSING • 2000-2002: Good knowledge in Speech Processing, in particular, in the processing of proper names. Co-author of 3 scientific papers published in international conference proceedings with Program Committee.

• 2001-2002: Co-supervision of a student project on the Computer Telephony Integration. VIRTUAL REALITY • 1992-...: Coordinator of the French Working Group on Virtual Reality: creation of the Web site, edition of an electronic letter (168 issues, more than 170 subscribers), organization of 6 workshops (between 40 and 110 participants from the academic and industrial communities), edition of proceedings for the 5th and 6th workshops with the support of the companies C-S and France Telecom.

• 2003: Co-organizer of the international conference Virtual Storytelling, Toulouse, France (90 participants), with the

support of the European Commission, the Midi-Pyrénées region, Grand Toulouse, the universities of Toulouse and Glasgow and the companies C-S, Immersion and NVIDIA: budget planning, scientific organization, contact with the invited lecturers, edition of the proceedings published as a volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series by Springer.

• 2001: Co-organizer of the International Conference on Virtual Storytelling, Avignon, France (95 participants), with the support of the European Commission and the companies C-S, Immersion and RealViz: budget planning, scientific organization, contact with the invited lecturers, local organization, edition of the proceedings published as a volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series by Springer.

• 2000: Co-organizer of the First French-British International Workshop on Virtual Reality, Brest, France (75 participants), with the support of ENIB: scientific organization.

• 1999: Scientific organizer of the conference International Scientific Workshop on Virtual Reality and Prototyping, Laval, France (110 participants), with the support of Laval Virtual and INRIA: creation of the Web site, scientific organization.

• 1999-2000: Co-editor of a special issue Virtual Reality of the journals Traitement du Signal and International Journal of Design and Innovation Research.

• 1998: Invited lecturer to the French-Japanese symposium Virtual Reality: technological and sociological impact organized by the French Embassy in Tokyo, Japan.

• 1996: Co-author of 2 scientific papers published in international conference proceedings with Program Committee. • 1996: Invited author for the state-of-the-art report New Human-Computer Interfaces published by the Observatoire Français des Techniques Avancées.

• 1992-2002: Reviewer of papers submitted to international conferences and a book.

MANAGEMENT AND COORDINATION OF PROJECTS • 2003: Submission of the VIRTEX project – Virtual Excavation (1,230 k over 5 years) – for the Call for Proposition European Young Investigator Awards of the European Science Foundation. VIRTEX was not selected.

• 2003-...: Writing and coordination of the research initiative FOVEA - Virtual Excavation of Paleo-Anthropological Environment - that was selected and funded by the CNRS :technical and financial organization (47k ), oral presentation to the Selection Committee, scientific management of the computer science part, research in 3D image processing, supervision of 2 graduated students, creation of the Web site.

• 2000-2002: Coordination of the research activities of the Laboratory of Computer Science of Avignon, France

related to the European Project SMADA (IST-HLT: 2000-2002), involving 7 partners from 4 countries: scientific and administrative management, participation to the meetings, edition of the deliverables.

• 2001: Proceeding Chairman of the international conference IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing: management of the proceeding budget, choice of the printer company.

• 1996-2000: Coordination of the research activities of the EPIDAURE Project, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France

related to the European Projects BIOMORPH (Biomed 2: 1996-1998) and QAMRIC (Biomed 2: 1998-2000), involving 5 partners from 4 countries: scientific management, participation to the meetings, edition of the deliverables, creation and edition of the Web site.

• 1997-2000: Participation to the writing of proposals for 3 European Projects ARCHEUM, ASHRAM (IST: 1999, 2000) and QAMRIC.

• 1997-2000: Coordination of 5 industrial collaborations with the companies CRIL Ingéniérie (45k ), Elf/Atochem

(15k ), Medtronic (100k ), Sanofi-Synthelabo (2x15k ): definition of the specifications, scientific and financial management, edition of the final reports.

• 1995-1996: Development of a scientific collaboration with the Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, U.S.A. after two visits.

• 1996: Initiation of a scientific collaboration with the Magnetic Resonance and Image Analysis Research Centre, Liverpool, U.K. after a 1-wek invited stay..

• 1993-...: Supervision of 7 Master's and 2 Ph.D. students. MULTIDISCIPLINARY COLABORATIONS AND INFIORLATION DISSEMNINATION • 1992-...: Medicine: numerous scientific collaborations with medical specialists in anatomical pathology, anatomy, forensic medicine, neurology, radiology, telemedicine in France, in U.K. or in U.S.A. that lead to co-authored papers published in international medical journals.

• 1998-2000: Industry: collaborations with companies from pharmaceutical (Sanofi Synthelabo), chemical (Elf/Atochem) and surgical (Medtronic) industry.

• 1996-...: Human Sciences: collaboration with paleo-anthropologists that lead to 2 co-authored scientific papers published in international conferences in paleontology. Co-organize of the international colloquium 3D Imaging for Paleoanthropology and Prehistoric Archeology, Liège, Belgium: creation of the Web site.

• 1999: 3-hour Master's lecture, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France. • 1999: Co-author of a scientific popularization article published by the French journal La Recherche. • 1999: Co-author of a 5-minute video presented during 6 months to the general public in an exhibition at the Musée de l'Homme, Paris, France.

• 1995-2001: Numerous contacts with journalists from the press Journal International de Médecine Hebdo, Le Monde, Pour la Science, Science et Avenir, La Tribune or from audio-visual medias Cannes Radio, TF1, France 2, M6.