CV informatics - Alexandre Alapetite

Current situation

I live in couple in Copenhagen, Denmark, and I am currently employed at the Technical University of Denmark.

Perso

E-mail: alexandre@alapetite.fr
Web: http://alexandre.alapetite.fr/cv/
Mobile: +45.61.69.52.47
Address: Vanløse; Danmark

Pro

E-mail: alal@dtu.dk
Telephone: +45.45.25.45.51
Address 55.78°N, 12.52°E: Danmarks Tekniske Universitet; Produktionstorvet 424; DK-2800 Kongens Lyngby; Denmark

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Work Experience

Senior researcher	11/2011 -	Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Department of Management Engineering
Researcher	10/2008 - 10/2011
Human–machine interaction; Simulation; Evaluations; Human factors. Work-package leader within the Odicis European project on single display cockpit. Tactile interfaces. Evaluations. Joint patent with Thales Aerospace Participation in the SafeManning Danish project on computer simulation for estimating the human resources needed for manoeuvring commercials vessels. Author of the open-source simulation engine SimManning

Post-doc (Research & development)	08/2007 - 09/2008	Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Department of Management Engineering
Research assistant	01/2007 - 06/2007	IT University of Copenhagen (ITU), Department of Innovative Communication, Denmark
Systems architect for the Danish project Spopos, providing services based on the location of passengers in airports. (Bluetooth, RFID, Apache Tomcat, Servlets Java, Soap) User interfaces (SVG). Data analysis.

Research & development (PhD student)	11/2003 - 12/2006	Risø National Laboratory, Systems Analysis Department, Roskilde, Denmark
PhD on speech recognition during anaesthesia, within the Advises European research training network on Analysis Design and Validation of Interactive Safety-critical and Error-tolerant Systems. Participation in the See European project on Sight Effectiveness Enhancement, with Thales Avionics and BMW (infrared vision, aviation & automotive). Participation in the Cogain European Network of Excellence for Communication by Gaze Interaction for disabled people (eye tracking). Presentations and courses on multimodal human-computer interfaces, XHTML+Voice and related Web standards.

Research & development (Master student)	04/2003 - 09/2003	Risø National Laboratory, Systems Analysis Department, Roskilde, Denmark
Master project within the SafeSound European project on Safety improvement by means of sound in plane cockpits, with Thales Avionics and EADS Airbus Realisation of HCI prototypes of voice control in aircraft cockpits. (Nuance) As a secondary project, realisation of a plug-in adding voice control to the Web browser Mozilla. (Xul, Microsoft Sapi)

Software developer bioinformatics	10/2001 - 01/2002	Cirad, Montpellier, France
Internship at Inra.CBGP for the Cirad, international centre for agronomic research for development. Software for identification of animal and plant populations using statistical comparisons of their DNA. (Delphi6, Kylix2, XML, Lex & Yacc) Clustering (distributed calculation).

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

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. (DHCP, FTP, HTTP with Apache, PHP upload).

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

Senior researcher

11/2011 -

Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Department of Management Engineering

Researcher

10/2008 - 10/2011

Human–machine interaction; Simulation; Evaluations; Human factors.
Work-package leader within the Odicis European project on single display cockpit.
- Tactile interfaces. Evaluations. Joint patent with Thales Aerospace
Participation in the SafeManning Danish project on computer simulation for estimating the human resources needed for manoeuvring commercials vessels.
- Author of the open-source simulation engine SimManning

Post-doc (Research & development)

08/2007 - 09/2008

Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Department of Management Engineering

Research assistant

01/2007 - 06/2007

IT University of Copenhagen (ITU), Department of Innovative Communication, Denmark

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

Research & development (PhD student)

11/2003 - 12/2006

Risø National Laboratory, Systems Analysis Department, Roskilde, Denmark

PhD on speech recognition during anaesthesia, within the Advises European research training network on Analysis Design and Validation of Interactive Safety-critical and Error-tolerant Systems.
Participation in the See European project on Sight Effectiveness Enhancement, with Thales Avionics and BMW (infrared vision, aviation & automotive).
Participation in the Cogain European Network of Excellence for Communication by Gaze Interaction for disabled people (eye tracking).
Presentations and courses on multimodal human-computer interfaces, XHTML+Voice and related Web standards.

Research & development (Master student)

04/2003 - 09/2003

Risø National Laboratory, Systems Analysis Department, Roskilde, Denmark

Master project within the SafeSound European project on Safety improvement by means of sound in plane cockpits, with Thales Avionics and EADS Airbus
Realisation of HCI prototypes of voice control in aircraft cockpits. (Nuance)
As a secondary project, realisation of a plug-in adding voice control to the Web browser Mozilla. (Xul, Microsoft Sapi)

Software developer bioinformatics

10/2001 - 01/2002

Cirad, Montpellier, France

Internship at Inra.CBGP for the Cirad, international centre for agronomic research for development.
Software for identification of animal and plant populations using statistical comparisons of their DNA. (Delphi6, Kylix2, XML, Lex & Yacc)
Clustering (distributed calculation).

Research traineeship

06/2001

Lirmm, Montpellier, France

Internship at the Lirmm laboratory of Montpellier: Graphical representation in Java, XML of some algorithms on mathematical trees. (4-person team)

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. (DHCP, FTP, HTTP with Apache, PHP upload).

Software developer

04/2000 - 06/2000

University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK

Internship: development of an Internet/intranet real-time chat in Java (2-person team) (Application, Applet, JDBC, JavaScript) connecting students around the town to their teachers (hundreds of heterogeneous computers: WinNT, Win9x, Win3.x, Solaris, Linux,…).

Informatics Skills

General knowledge:

Domains: aviation (3 European projects with Thales), hospitals, airports, maritime, railway.
Project management: experience of European projects. Tools for a leader of IT projects : Microsoft Team Foundation Server, Microsoft Project.
Expert in Web technologies.
Human-computer interaction (HCI), multi-modality, speech interfaces, gaze, tactile, mobile.
Wide informatics knowledge. Mathematics, statistics (SPSS), and accountancy notions.
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Optimisation (sorting, search…), Pattern recognition (sounds and pictures), Distributed Algorithmic.
Object-orientated modelling (UML) and programming. Functional programming.
Multimedia: notions of image, sound and video compression (ffmpeg); graphics (Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator); audio and video editing.

Programming languages:

C#.NET: Extensive knowledge of the language and the framework. (Visual Studio, Expression Blend, Mono).
Java: Very good knowledge of the language, libraries (AWT, Swing…). Experience with Applets, Servlets (JSP and JSPX under Apache Tomcat), and MIDlets (J2ME) on mobile phones, Android. Eclipse.
Pascal, Delphi, Kylix: Large experience with general programming (heavy calculation, graphics, network…).
C++: A little experience (Borland CBuilder, Visual Studio). Qt (Qt Creator, Qt Quick): A little experience (expert in CSS). A little knowledge of C for system programming.
Regular expressions: Very good knowledge. Lex & Yacc: Good knowledge, used to generate genetics file analysers.
Visual Basic, Lisp, Prolog: Knowledge.

Internet technologies:

HTML/XHTML/CSS/SVG: Expert, fluent “by hand”. Made an XHTML/XML validator (e.g. Relax NG, Schematron…).
XML technologies (e.g. XSL/XPath/XML Schema): Very good knowledge. Utilisation with C#, PHP, JavaScript, Java, Delphi…
Semantic Web (e.g. RDF/RSS/Ontologies): Good knowledge.
Web Services (e.g. REST, Soap/WSDL): Knowledge.
VoiceXML, JSGF, Web speech, XHTML+Voice: Good knowledge. Invited to give some university courses on X+V. (Opera, IBM WebSphere).
PHP: Expert. Large experience. Made a popular Open Source migration library from PHP4/DOMXML/XSLT to PHP5/DOM/XSL.
JavaScript/ECMAScript: Large experience on the Web. jQuery. Security aspects. User scripts (Greasemonkey). Xul (Netscape and Mozilla plug-ins): Made a plug-in for speech recognition.
ASP.NET: Good experience.
CGI(Perl), ActiveX, VBScript: A little knowledge.

Databases:

SQL: Good knowledge, used with PHP, Java… PLSQL: A little knowledge. Theoretical knowledge of Merise.
Experience of MySQL, SQLite, ODBC, Microsoft Access. A little experience of Oracle, Paradox, JDBC, 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, Node.js, networks architectures (TCP/IP), NTP.
Windows: Broad experience on all versions (3.x to Win8) of networks and administration. MS-DOS batch.
Linux (Debian, Ubuntu): Experience of shell, Internet servers. MacOS (9, X): A little experience.
Heterogeneous networks: Experience of networks with Windows, Linux and MacOS. Virtual machines (mainly VirtualBox, Virtual PC).

Hardware:

Intel, AMD, IBM…: broad experience with lots of PCs built since 1996.
Intel 8086 assembler, Microchip PIC16F84 assembler: A little knowledge.
Lego Mindstorms NXT building and programming (NXT-G, NXC): Good knowledge. Robots, sensors, interaction with computers.
Arduino, Raspberry Pi: Basic experience.

Other skills

Languages:

French: Native language
English: Very good working knowledge
Danish: Good level (10 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, mountain bike… (see photos)
Music: I play the alto saxophone, tenor recorder
I contribute to Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia since 2003.

Updated 2013-03-19

Year	Academic degree	School
2003-2007	Doctor of informatics	PhD in human-computer interaction of safety critical systems, Risø Laboratory and 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		32 years old (1980-11-24)
		Alexandre Alapetite		+45.61.69.52.47
		Doctor of informatics		alexandre@alapetite.fr
				http://alexandre.alapetite.fr

Alexandre Alapetite

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