Project manager / Research engineer in Human-System Interaction Machine Learning & Human Factors
Patricia BESSON 35 years old Marseille, France
PROFESSIONNAL SKILLS
Tel.: +33 4 91 77 97 63 Email :
[email protected] website: patriciabesson.free.fr
EMPLOYMENT Research associate Partnership: PSA Peugeot-Citroën From March 2012
CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université (France) • Investigating multisensory perception simulator to assess its level of realism
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Partnership: EUROCOPTER CNRS & Aix-Marseille Université (France) • Intelligent aiding systems: development of a Bayesian network model inferring pilots' workload • Manager of a multidisciplinary project (8 people involved) • Processing of psychophysiological, cognitive sensorimotor (eye tracker) measurements
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• Experimentations using virtual reality
Research assistant 2008 2007
CNRS (France) • Development of a model of multisensory perception • Data collected via psychophysical experiments / Approach based on probability and Information theories
2007 2003
EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland) • Development of a multimodal pattern recognition framework to detect the speaker on audiovisual sequences (to improve videoconference systems' interactivity) • Data fusion using probability and information theories, hypothesis tests, stochastic and deterministic optimization
2003 2000
o Defining and executing a research protocol o Planning and controlling the project (3 years project) o Controlling the costs (300k€) o Being the partner with the project staff, sponsors, and other management
EPFL (Switzerland):Partnership with KBA NotaSys • Filtering and image processing algorithms for decoding color bar-codes.
2007 2003
Ph. D. thesis in signal and image processing, Signal Processing Institute, EPFL (Switzerland)
2001 2000
M. Sc. in Biomedical Engineering – University of Montreal & Polytechnique Montreal (Canada) ▪ Research training in image processing, L.I.S. 3D - Ste Justine's Hospital (Canada, 2001, 4 months)
Team management o Scheduling and running meetings (2/months on average; chairman at IEEE IS12 conference) o Allocating the tasks (8 people) o Supervising students and trainees (7 trainees)
Project manager 2012 2008
Project management
EDUCATION
2000 1998
M. Sc. in Biomedical Engineering – University Lyon I (France) ▪ Internship: Siemens (analysis of the scan equipment in Paris' hospitals, 2000, 2 months)
Technical skills ▪
o Defining and running experiments o Signal and data processing o Developing models (using machine learning techniques)
Communication o Technological survey o Reporting progress (writing scientific papers and technical reports: more than 10 publications) o Presenting results to different audiences (more than 10 conferences and talks) o Teaching (80h)
COMPUTER SKILLS ▪ Programming skills: Matlab, HTML, CSS, C/C++ ▪ Business softwares: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Latex ▪ Systems: Linux, Windows ▪ Data acquisition tools: FaceLab, Captiv
COMPLEMENTARY EDUCATION 2012
Project management (DEMOS,
21h),
Paris, France 2010
Summer School: Present Theories and Methods in Cognitive Ergonomics, (CNRS, GDR Psycho-Ergo), Le Croisic
2009
Winter school on bayesian cognition (INRIA-CNRS), Chamonix, France
2005
3rd British Computer Society Summer School on Pattern Recognition Plymouth, U. K.
2003
Tutorial course on Joint Audio-Visual Signal Processing, ICIP, Barcelona, Spain
2002
C++ programming course by Central Informatic Service at EPFL, Switzerland
LANGUAGES ▪ French: Native ▪ English: Fluent (oral and written) ▪ German & Italian: Intermediate
Research training in speech signal processing, O.R.L. research laboratory St Antoine’s Hospital (Paris, 1999, 2 months)
