Frederic F. LEYMARIE
Address: 182-4 Hope St., Box D, Brown U., Providence, RI 02912, U.S.A.,
Tel.: (401) 863.2760
Fax: (401) 863.9039 , mailto:leymarie@lems.brown.edu
, http://www.lems.brown.edu/~leymarie
EDUCATION
Brown University
/ Division of
Engineering / Providence, RI, USA
McGill University
/ Electrical
Engineering / Montreal, Canada / 1990
Polytechnic School
of Montreal / Electrical Engineering / Canada / 1986
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Bachelor of Engineering: GPA: 3.83/4; honors in aeronautics; internship
at Canadair, Inc.
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Awards: from Bechtel Inc. (1984), Montreal University (1985), NSERC
Summer fellowship (1986).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Manager and Researcher : The SHAPE Lab. /
Brown University / 2003-present
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Co-wrote a second successful proposal to the National Science
Foundation (NSF),
in support to the second phase of the SHAPE Lab. (funding of more than
2 million USD over 4 years).
R&D Project Leader and Researcher : The SHAPE Lab. /
Brown University / 1998-2002
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Initiated a successful proposal to the National Science Foundation (NSF), which
has lead to the establishment of the SHAPE lab. in late 1999 (funding
of 1.5 million USD over 3 years; (see www.lems.brown.edu/vision/extra/SHAPE/ ).
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Developed a research plan in pattern analysis (see www.lems.brown.edu/vision/researchAreas/Shocks3D/
).
Invented and implemented new algorithms based on differential
calculus, computational geometry, optimization techniques, multi-scale
data analysis, and pattern recognition, with applications to object
modeling and virtual reality systems (patent pending).
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Initiated international collaborations with the Institute of Computer
Graphics (ICG) of the
Technical University of Graz (Austria), the Computer Vision Center (CVC) of Barcelona (Spain), the
Italian National Research Council (CNR,
Rome), the Sorbonne (Paris, France).
Project manager : Syseca (now Thales) / Thomson-CSF
/ Paris, France / 1994-97
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Managed French and European projects (2 to 10 people) in the fields of
Geography, Multimodal interfaces, Technology transfer, Environmental
Emergency Management Systems.
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Performed client reporting and negotiations, budget bookkeeping,
proposal and report writing and presentations, software design, as well
as business development activities.
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Managed the REALISE
project - 4 R&D teams in 3 countries (France, Germany,
Netherlands) - funded by the European Commission; offshoot of this
project: www.realviz.com.
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Built a European consortium of R&D labs to prepare a proposal on
the digital cities of the future (CyberCity).
SKILLS
Written and Oral skills :
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Authored and presented (20+) papers at professional conferences in
North America and Europe.
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Invited speaker in MIT
('01), Zurich
('01), Barcelona
('00), Graz ('98), Berlin & Ispra (European Commission, '97).
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First author of technical peer-reviewed
journal papers.
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One (provisional) US patent: "Method and apparatus for
multi-dimensional shape representation via shock flows," filed
October 18, 2002.
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Reviewer (in the past 3 years) for IEEE transactions on PAMI,
ACM's Solid Modeling and Applications and SIGGRAPH conferences, ACM's Journal of
Computing And Information Science In Engineering, SPIE's Journal of
Electronic Imaging, Kluwer's Acta Applicandae
Mathematicae.
Programming/Computing :
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Advanced computational programming (cellular automata, geometry, image
processing, numerical analysis, optimization, statistics), mainly in
the C language.
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Also experienced in Lisp (object oriented design and implementation of
expert systems), C++ (graphical environment), Fortran,
Matlab/Maple/Mathematica.
Business and Leadership Experience :
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Founding member of the Brown University Biotech Interest Group, 2002-3.
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Participated in the Brown Entrepreneurship
Program in 1999. Co-wrote two business plans on
"electronic content publishing," and "investment clubs
on the internet."
Languages :
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Bilingual French - English.
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Elementary German & Spanish.