Nicolas DANO

3 rue Marguerite Bervoets

78280 Guyancourt, France

http://nicolas.dano.free.fr/career

E-mail: nicolas_dano@yahoo.com

Phone: +33 (0)6 23 75 26 45

 

 

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

Fluent (USA resident between April 1998 and December 2001)

French

Fluent (native language)

Spanish

Conversational skills (attended classes for five years in addition to several travels in Spain)

 

Additional information

 

Communication ability

Tutor of Mathematics, physics, computer science

Fest-Noz organizer (2000 members Celtic parties)

Leisure

Guitar, astronomy, sports and travels