Nicolas DANO E-mail:
[email protected] Phone: +33 (0)6 23 75 26 45
3 rue Marguerite Bervoets 78280 Guyancourt, France http://nicolas.dano.free.fr/career
4 years experience in Research and Development Expert in Computer Vision and Visualization Unix and NT platform administration Expert in Object Oriented Design Experience Mars 2001 December 2001
General Electric, Corporate Research & Development Center Senior Computer Scientist - Visualization and Computer Vision Lab • Computer Aided Detection. Development of a low dose CT lung cancer detection system that automatically detects suspicious lung regions (GE Medical System) • Mentoring of an intern on a scene reconstruction process using line segment matches (Lockheed Martin)
April 1998 – Mars 2001
CMA Consulting services Full time consultant for General Electric, Corporate Research & Development Research engineer in the Image Understanding Group • Scene/Model 3D reconstruction from video sequences (FBI contract) • Turbine blade wall thickness measurement from X-ray images taken around the part (GE Aircraft Engine) • Design and implementation of the video and vrml libraries used by the worldwide computer vision community (inside the TargetJr / vxl open source environment system) • Management of interns
Mar. 1997 Sep. 1997
CMA Consulting services Intern for General Electric, Corporate Research & Development • Application of Hough’s transform on fingerprints processing
Sep. 1996 Feb. 1997
Irisa/Inria (Research Institute in Computer Science and Probabilistic Systems) School project with the SIAMES team (Images Synthesis, Animation and Simulation) • Automatic texture in a virtual town environment for the European project PRAXITELE (Driving Simulation)
1994 – 1996
Self employed • Creation and sale of a database software which simplify transport companies’ administrative formalities
Education 1994 – 1997
“Ingénieur Grandes Ecoles”, IFSIC (INRIA affiliated), France A post-graduate engineering degree delivered by the french elite science schools • Section: Information Technology. Diploma title: D.I.I.C. • Specialization: Processing and synthesis of digital images
1992 –1994
Scientific DEUG, University of Rennes I, France A degree delivered by French universities upon successful completion of the first two years of science studies
1992
Baccalauréat in Science: section mathematics and physics. College “La Poterie”, Rennes, France
Languages English French Spanish
Fluent (USA resident between April 1998 and December 2001) Fluent (native language) Conversational skills (attended classes for five years in addition to several travels in Spain)
Additional information Communication ability Leisure
Tutor of Mathematics, physics, computer science Fest-Noz organizer (2000 members Celtic parties) Guitar, astronomy, sports and travels
