Camille Couprie

Currently

• Post-doc at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Science with Prof. Yann Lecun. Combining graph-based approaches and learning methods for object recognition in scenes.

Education

• PhD in Computer Science under the supervision of Profs. Laurent Najman and Hugues Talbot.
• Discrete optimization for image processing: Resolution of partial differential equations in graphs, with applications to image segmentation, denoising, 3D reconstruction.
• Scholarship from DGA/CNRS, the research arm of the French department of defense: scholarships attributed competitively.

• Engineering degree at ESIEE, France, a university of Computer Science and Electronic engineering, graduated as valedictorian.

• Research Master degree in Computer Science at the UPE (Paris-Est University), specialized in Imaging, in addition to studies at ESIEE. Graduation with honors.

• Licence d'informatique (BSc Computer Science), awarded with merit.

• Licence de Mathématiques , equivalent to BSc Maths in addition to studies at ESIEE.

• Equivalent to English A-levels in pure maths and physics, Awarded with merit.

Honors and Awards

• December 2007 : Scholarship (4000 €) awarded to best graduating students.

• June 2006 : "Virtual Joystick": project in image analysis (motion detection) with two schoolmates from ESIEE. Innovation award (1200 €) attributed to the best student ESIEE project among 150 others.

Work Experience

• Teaching assistant to BSc and Master students in optimization, C programming, operating systems, set theory, graph theory and algorithmics courses.

• Addition of topological constraints to minimal surfaces computation - study of discrete minimal surfaces problem related to medical imaging.

• Cognitive Neurosciences and Cerebral Imaging Laboratory (LENA, CNRS). Software design of a tridimentionnal brain atlas, implementation of image registration algorithms.

• Improved the Human/Machine interface on a robotic platform, implementation of skeletonization algorithms.

Skills