Pierre SERMANET sermanet.free.fr

Cell: +1 (609) 937 3319

[email protected]

Computer / Robotics Engineer Summary

• Managed, designed and developed many IT projects for various industries • Involved in several long-term robotics projects • Programming teacher assistant • Fluent in French and English, German (academic), and worked in several international teams

Education

• New York University (NYU), NY, USA

Work

2006 – present MS in Computer Science (machine learning, computer vision, A.I., robotics) • EPITA, Paris, a leading engineering school in France 2000 – 2005 5 year integrated BS/MS degree program in computer engineering with honors • Scientific French High School Diploma with distinction 2000 New York University / Net-Scale Technologies, NY, USA 10/05 – present Research/development in off-road autonomous robotics navigation with machine learning LAGR (DARPA funded) competition description: sermanet.free.fr • Learning applied to vision, path planning, vehicle dynamics control, stereo/image processing • End-to-end design, development, optimization and test of real time navigation software SIEMENS Corporate Research (SCR), Princeton, NJ, USA 02/05 – 09/05 Research and Development in brain imaging in Imaging and Visualization Department • Conducted research on registration algorithms for diffusion (Magnetic Resonance technology) • Developed a framework in C++/.NET/OpenGL/Matlab for 3D brain imaging DIMACS, Paris, France 01/05 – 02/05 Robot software developer (interface for a CD burner robot for medical environment in C++)

Publications

EPITA, Paris, France Programming teacher assistant (C/UNIX and Shell script)

09/04

Cryptolog International, Paris, France Java developer in Cryptography and Security

09/03 – 12/03

• Sermanet et al.: "Speed-Range Dilemmas for Vision-Based Navigation in Unstructured

Terrain", Proc. 6th IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, IAV 2007,[6 pages]

• Hadsell, Erkan, Sermanet et al.: "A Multi-Range Vision Strategy for Autonomous Offroad

Navigation", in Proc. of Robotics and Applications, RA 2007. [8 pages]

• Erkan, Hadsell, Sermanet et al: "Adaptive Long Range Vision in Unstructured Terrain", in

Proc. of Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2007. [8 pages]

• Hadsell, Sermanet et al.: "Online Learning for Offroad Robots: Using Spatial Label

Propagation to Learn Long-Range Traversability", in Proc. of the Robotics Science and Systems Conference 07, RSS 2007 [8 pages] • Αlso presented at North East Student Colloquium on Artificial Intelligence, NESCAI 2007. • Hadsell, Sermanet et al.: "Driving and Learning Strategies for Offroad Robots"

Demo poster at Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2006. 1/2

• Hadsell, Sermanet et al.: "On-line Learning for Offroad Robots: Using Spatial Label

Propagation to Learn Long-Range traversability", Technical Report, CBLL-TR-2007-0101, January 2007. [8 pages]

• Hadsell, Sermanet et al.: "On-Line Learning of Long-Range Obstacle Detection for

Offroad Robots", Snowbird Workshop on Learning, Snowbird 2006 [3 pages]

Skills

Projects

Languages:

C/C++/C#, Java, Lisp (Lush) Matlab, Ada, Shell script, CamL, VHDL, Delphi/Pascal, PHP, OpenGL, DirectX, ASN.1, Tiger, Flex/Bison, JUnit Design: UML, SART, SADT OS: Linux/Unix, Windows, VRTX Databases: Oracle, SQL Applications: CVS, Make, Patch, GDB, Latex • European robotics 2004 contest

2000 - 2004

A.I., Image processing, 3D OpenGL/C++ simulator, real-time software design, behaviors engine (wall follower, ball eater, tree surrounder, emergency shooter, etc) • Optical character recognition program (OCR) with neural networks in C++ • Speech synthesis and recognition program (Matlab) • Robot with embedded webcam controlled through network (Java) • Tiger language compiler (C++/Flex/Bison) • FPS 3D Game network playable (Delphi/OpenGL, 3D engine, 3DSMAX...) References

Interests

• Mariappan Nadar, PhD. P.M. Siemens Corporate Research: [email protected] • Urs Muller, PhD. CEO of Net-Scale Technologies: [email protected] • Yann LeCun, PhD, Machine learning professor at New York University: [email protected]

Traveling, Windsurf, Kitesurf, Snowboard, Piano

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