Resume

Laurent Najman
Born on the 24^th of May, 1967 (40 years old)

email: laurent@najman.org
http://www.laurentnajman.org

Employment experience

Since 2007	A2SI Laboratory and Institut Gaspard Monge - Paris Professor Computer Science and Image Processing
2002-2007	Associate professor Computer Science and Image Processing

1998-2002

Océ Print Logic Technologies - Paris
Senior Scientist - Coach
Market: Digital Document Processing

Recruitment, training, animation and team leadership.

	Building of a R&D team dedicated to document image procesing.
	Three patents in three years.
	Lobbying and partnership negociations involving several Océ subsidiaries (France, Netherlands, Germany and USA).
	Management of technological transfer partnership (Universities, Engineering schools...)
	In charge of public relations (conferences, publications, etc)
	Change management: methodologies for rapid prototyping and for automated testing.

1995-1998

ArSciMed (now Animation Science) - Paris - Boston - San Francisco
Director of Research & Development, member of the board
Market: computer graphics and scientific visualisation (fluid mechanics, optical computation)

Recruitment, training, animation and team leadership.

	Building of a R & D team
	In charge of product plans, jointly with Marketing.
	R&D team organization (12 p.)
	Technical partnership negotiations (4M$) (Microsoft/Softimage, AutoDesk/Kinetix, PTC, IBM, Autoliv, ANVAR, CNC...)

Development of the " Particle System" technology, the basis for creating the ArSciMed products.

	Prizes obtained :
	European Information Technology Prize 1997 awarded by the European Commission (Esprit programme) and by the European Council for Applied Science and Engineering.
	Hottest Products of the Year 1996 awarded by the Computer Graphics World journal.
	Technological Enterprise Award 1995, by the Ile-de-France Regional Council.

1991-1995

Thomson-CSF – Central Research Laboratory.- Paris
Research engineer

	Contribution to the " Automatic identification air-air " project (automatic identification of airplane in-flight positions, 30 man-years, DGA/DRET) : study of infrared image segmentation.
	Development of an Image Analysis SDK. This code is built-in to the " Saphir " software, a commercial product aimed at numerical geography.
	Development of a software kernel aimed at face recognition.

Training

2006 Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches: Computer Sciences.
"Mathematical Morphology, dynamical systems and application to image processing".
University Marne-la-Vallée.

1994 Science Ph.D.: Applied Mathematics.
"Mathematical Morphology : From Images segmentation to Set-Valued Analysis".
Received with the award panel’s special congratulations. University Paris-Dauphine.

1991 Engineering Degree from the Ecole des Mines de Paris (Control Theory Option).
Advanced (DEA) degree in Artificial Intelligence and Shape Recognition. University Paris-Dauphine.

1990 Master in Mathematical Engineering. Modelling and Scientific Computing Option.
Magna cum Laude. – University Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris 6.
Master in Mathematics and Fundamental Applications. Majoring in Mechanics.
Magna cum Laude. – University Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris 6.

2006	Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches: Computer Sciences. "Mathematical Morphology, dynamical systems and application to image processing". University Marne-la-Vallée.
1994	Science Ph.D.: Applied Mathematics. "Mathematical Morphology : From Images segmentation to Set-Valued Analysis". Received with the award panel’s special congratulations. University Paris-Dauphine.
1991	Engineering Degree from the Ecole des Mines de Paris (Control Theory Option). Advanced (DEA) degree in Artificial Intelligence and Shape Recognition. University Paris-Dauphine.
1990	Master in Mathematical Engineering. Modelling and Scientific Computing Option. Magna cum Laude. – University Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris 6. Master in Mathematics and Fundamental Applications. Majoring in Mechanics. Magna cum Laude. – University Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris 6.

Specific skills

Publications

Numerous publications (IEEE PAMI, J. Math. Anal. & Appl., etc)

Patent applications.

Computer

C, C++, Visual C++, OpenGL, X/Motif, lex/yacc, LISP, FORTRAN, tcltk

UML, eXtreme Programming

System Administrator level under UNIX and Windows NT

Languages

French mother tongue; fluent English.

1993-1994

Teaching a Control Theory Training for the Ecole des Mines de Paris.

2000-2002

Associated researcher with the A2SI laboratory of the ESIEE engineering scholl.

Scientific life

	Reviewer for international Journal and Conferences (IEEE PAMI, CVIU...)
	Co-organizer of ISMM 2005, the 7th International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology
	Member of Organizing Comitee of CFD 2002, the first federative conference on document in French language
	Member of CIFED 2002 Program Comittee
	Member of Ph.D. Juries
	IEEE member

Sport

	In charge of communication for the Ligue Ile-de-France d'aikido FFAB
	Aikido professor (4^th Dan, professeur diplômé d'état (BEES 1er degré)). Aikido is an oriental personal development method.

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