Personal Info

Age: 24 - DOB: January 7, 1985
Marital Status: Single
Nationality: French

Education

2005 - ... PhD Student in Computer Science at UCI (University of California, Irvine)
Advisor: Prof. Pierre Baldi
Mar - Jul 05 MS Internship in the Computational Biology Group of Ecole des Mines de Paris, Fontainebleau (France)
Advisor: Prof. Jean-Philippe Vert
2004 - 2005 Université de Rennes I, MS "Mathematics and Computer Science"
Specialization "Software and Formal Methods"
Degree obtained with the distinction 'Good'
2002 - 2005 Telecommunication Engineering School ENST Bretagne (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Bretagne)
1999 - 2002 Intensive post 'A' level in Maths and Physics for admission to French Engineering Schools, lycée Louis-le-Grand, Paris, France
 

Experience

2005 - ... UC Irvine: Reasearch, Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics
  • Organic reaction prediction
  • Virtual High-Throughput Screening (kernel methods, neural networks)
  • Developement and test of kernels for small molecules
  • Docking
June - Sep 09 IBM R&D Labs (Tel-Aviv, Israel): Summer Intern
Statistical analysis of SNP data for the HyperGenes Project
June - July 08 UC Irvine: Teaching Assistant
Introduction to Probabilities and Statistics for Computer Science
Aug - Sep 06 UC Irvine: Teaching Assistant
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Mar - Jul 05 Ecole des Mines de Paris, France: MS Internship
  • Implementation and validation of kernels for protein sequences
  • Web interface for kernel testing
Sep 03 - Feb 04 Festiv'04 (team of students organizing a cultural festival at ENST Bretagne)
Secretary and treasurer
 

Skills

Machine Learning Graphical models, Bayesian Networks, Markov Models, Kernel Methods and SVM, Neural Networks.
Chemoinformatics OEChem, OpenBabel, chimera, DOCK, Amber, NAMD, VMD, AutoDock.
Programming Python, C. Experience with Java, R, Matlab. Bases of C++, Caml.
Operating Systems GNU/Linux, Unix, MS Windows.
Web Languages HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PHP.
 

Languages

French Mother tongue
English Fluent
  • Cambridge Advanced Exam passed with level B in 2004
  • SPEAK, 50/60 in 2006
  • in the United States since August 25, 2005
German Good level
"Zentrale Mittelstufenprüfung" (Goethe Institut), passed with level 'Good' in 2004
Spanish Beginner
 

Miscellaneous

Music Viola, orchestra, chamber music
Choir singing
Sports Swimming, dancing (swing, salsa, Argentine tango, ballroom)
Others Theater, Photography, Travels, Writing