GEURTS Joost 28 rue Legendre, 75017 Paris + 33 (0)6 25 77 21 80  

[email protected] http://www.joostgeurts.com

Birth date: 11/10/1975 Nationality: Dutch

WORK EXPERIENCE Since 09/2010

Research engineer, CNRS, UTC Compiègne, HEUDIASYC team (France)

I am currently working on a industry-oriented research project about the collaborative authoring of structured documents (C2M).

03/2007 – 08/2010

Expert engineer, INRIA Rocquencourt, IMEDIA team (France) As an assistant manager, I was in charge of supervising the day-to-day activity of two European research projects on multimedia search engines:  CHORUS was a strategic project aiming at establishing synergies between various European research programs on multimedia search.  VITALAS was a technical project that led to the development of an advanced multimedia search engine, based on various technological components developed by different research labs in Europe.

10/2002-11/2006

Researcher, CWI Amsterdam (the Netherlands) In cooperation with the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and as part of my PhD research, I developed a model and processing framework that reduces the production costs of time-based multimedia documents (e.g. SMIL and SVG) through reuse of design knowledge and automatic adaptation to the delivery context (including device and user constraints). Visiting scholar (6 months), University of California, Berkeley (USA) I worked in the “garage cinema” research lab on semantically aware search of videos that were annotated by cinematographic experts. The results were used to facilitate the reuse of video sequences during montage. Visiting scholar (6 months), University of Queensland, Brisbane (Australia) I worked on automated knowledge discovery in annotated cultural historic archives. The inferred semantic relations were used to present search results more appropriately by using the framework developed for my PhD research.

EDUCATION 01/2010

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Eindhoven Technical University, Mathematics and Computer Science faculty (the Netherlands) Thesis title: A Document Engineering Model and Processing Framework for Multimedia Documents

07/2007

Master of Science (M.Sc.), Artificial Intelligence, University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands)

07/1999

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Software Engineering, Saxion Universities of Applied Sciences, Computer Science department, Enschede (the Netherlands)

SKILLS AND COMPETENCES Technical skills

Comprehensive understanding of multimedia content, processes and applications in various domains and contexts, including search-engines, digital library, cultural heritage, knowledge engineering, document engineering and web-based frameworks. Thorough experience in fast-pace development of research prototype software and demonstrators within various heterogeneous architectural environments.

Computer skills

Programming : Java, C, C++, XSL(T), Prolog, Python Declarative languages : XML, RDF(S), OWL, UML, HTML Operating systems : Unix, Windows, Mac OSX DBMS : MySQL, Microsoft Access Office software : Microsoft Office, LaTeX, OpenOffice

Management skills Management experience in the coordination of European research projects. Social skills

Extensive experience in international and multi-cultural work environments Competence in organizing scientific gatherings, team-building events and social activities Creative thinker, confident in expressing ideas and opinions

Language skills

Dutch: native speaker, English: fluent, French: fluent, German: conversational

PRINCIPAL PUBLICATIONS Joost Geurts, A Document Engineering Model and Processing Framework for Multimedia Documents, PhD thesis Technical University of Eindhoven, ISBN: 978-90-3862160-7, February 2010. Nozha Boujemaa (ed) et al. Cross-disciplinary Challenges and Recommendations regarding the Future of Multimedia Search Engines. Report Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2010 ISBN:978-92-79-15290-0, doi: 10.2759/27924. Joost Geurts, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, and Lynda Hardman. Requirements for practical multimedia annotation. In Workshop on Multimedia and the Semantic Web, pages 4–11, Heraklion, Crete, May 2005. part of 2nd European Semantic Web Conference. Joost Geurts, Stefano Bocconi, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, and Lynda Hardman. Towards Ontology-driven Discourse: From Semantic Graphs to Multimedia Presentations. In Second International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003), pages 597–612, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA, October 20-23, 2003. Suzanne Little, Joost Geurts, and Jane Hunter. Dynamic Generation of Intelligent Multimedia Presentations through Semantic Inferencing. In 6th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, pages 158–189, Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, Italy, September 2002. Springer.