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Chesner DESIR
Nationality: French
Tel.    : +33(0)6 46 09 20 66
Emailchesner.desir@gmail.com
  • Available immediately
  • International

37, bld Maréchal FOCH, 38100 Grenoble
 Twitter: @chesnerdesir

Career Objective : Seeking a position as R&D Engineer in Computer Vision/Biomedical engineering that will benefit from my experiences in artificial intelligence, machine learning, pattern recognition, biomedical data processing in a challenging environment. 

Motivation : I am an enthusiastic, fast learning and adaptive entrepreneur, with innovation in mind, a team player, resourceful and rigorous with organizational skills willing to develop new skills and solve new challenges 

WORK EXPERIENCE

Since February 14 - Research Engineer at CEA-LETI

  • Working on quantitative analysis, intelligent data processing for the extraction of biomarkers in aided diagnosis systems with an application to sleep breathing disorders using advanced wearables.
  • Challenges are ranging from Quantified self analysis, personalized health systems to Big data.

Since November 11 - ErgSap – Entrepreneur

  • Founder of ErgSap, an innovative mobile & web application development startup
  • Developer of smart, real time application with education & design in mind
  • Android programming, web interface, Java/PHP/SQL/HTML

Oct 12 – April 13 - Coria UMR 6614 Rouen – R&D Engineer

  • Development, analysis, classification and real-time visualization of biomedical data for noninvasive ventilatory support for the ATOMOSYD team
  • Successfully deliver a medical application with smart graphical user interfaces for the purpose of a clinical trial
  • wxWidgets 2.8+, wxMathPlot, C++ Linux & Windows Visual 2010, Git, ProjectLibre

March 11 – April 11 - Les Entrepreneuriales Normandy – Mobile Developer

  • Developer of an Augmented Reality mobile application for persons with visual impairments in the project team MPAR (Wearable System with Augmented Reality) for the competition in innovative entrepreneurship « Les Entrepreneuriales » : laureate of the Jury's favourite prize

Nov 08 – July 13 - PhD thesis in Computer Vision – LITIS EA 4108 Rouen

  • PhD in Computer Science, Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition
  • Development of a computer aided-diagnosis system for University Hospital of Rouen with generic, effective & robust approaches for automatic classification
  • Trainings : managing innovation & project management
  • Oral & written communications (France, London & Berlin), 10 scientific international publications

January 12 – August 12  - University of Rouen – Teaching assistant

    • System Programming courses for bachelor degree - L3GEII
    • C programming language for bachelor degree - L3EEA
    • project management for 2-year university degree - L2EEA

January 10 – June 10 - INSA of Rouen – Teaching assistant

  • Probability and statistics for engineering students, bachelor degree - ASI3


March 08 - Sept 08 - IRCAD (Strasbourg) – Intern Master degree CSV 2

  • Internship in Augmented Reality team
  • Development of computer code for the detection and tracking of anatomical structure in endoscopic surgery, images & videos processing, feature extraction

Jun 07 - Sept 07  - Zero-D (Bernardswiller / Alsace) – Intern Master degree CSV 1

  • Internship at the Young Innovative Company in plastics engineering
  • Predictive maintenance of plasticising units, improvement of predictive codes

Sept 06 – Mars 09  - Wikimedia foundation – Administrator for HT projects

  • Administrator & project manager for Haitian creole wikipedia, wiktionary, wikisource, wikiversity, wikiquote & translator for the same projects

May 06 - October 06 - Act Info Service (Strasbourg) – Trainer in English/French

  • Data structure organizer & integrator for the vocational training center using the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages

Sept 99 - June 01 - High School Jardin d'Essai Guadeloupe – Software developer

  • Software developer Visual Basic, draftsman, experimenter & organizer of scientific activities/communication on tinting strength of Caribbean flowers (Hibiscus, Safran)

EDUCATION


  • 2008 - 2013 - (Defense) PhD thesis in Computer Science – LITIS EA 4108 Rouen
    Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Classification
  • 2006 - 2008 - Master degree CSV - University of Strasbourg Louis Pasteur
    Applied mathematics : Scientific Computing and Visualisation
  • 2005 - 2006 - Bachelor degree MIAS - University of Strasbourg Louis Pasteur
    Bachelor degree in Applied mathematics and Computer science
  • 2003 - 2005 - Engineering student – Top high school ENSPS - Strasbourg
    First year of Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique de StrasbourgChief edior of students newspaper; options german, japanese
  • 2001 - 2003 - CPGE in Mathematics & DEUG MIAS – Lycée Fénelon - Paris
    2-year intensive program preparing for the national competitive exam for entry to top engineering schools & 2-year university degree in mathematics
  • 1999 - 2001 - Baccalauréat S – High school Jardin d'Essai Abymes – Guadeloupe
    High school diploma in Sciences with options Latin & Computer science


Computer Science skills : C/C++ (+++), Matlab (+++), Python (+), OpenCV (++), Bash (+++), GANTT/ProjectLibre (+++), Linux/Win (++), Android (+++), wxWidgets (+++), PhP/SQL (++)


Languages

  • English (TOEIC L&R 2013 score : 865) : fluent, international scientific publications & communications, attendee of seminars & conferences
  • Spanish: intermediate level, conversational 
  • French & Haitian creole : native

Interests

  • Art, classical literature, theater, salsa (music & dance), guitar, science & discovery, technology, martial arts, Kung-Fu & Muay-thaï as a beginner, basketball player