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Yann LANDRIN-SCHWEITZER

Apt 302
8-12 rue de Romainville
75019 PARIS, FRANCE

Telephone: +33 (0) 1 42 06 53 98

E-mail: yls at varkhan.net
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EDUCATION

2000 - 2003 PhD in Computer Engineering
    Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique
    In collaboration with Novartis
Genetic Algorithms for the Text-Retrieval.

1997 - 2000 Engineering studies
    Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées.
Three-year engineering studies, with a one-year specialisation in networks and computer security.

1994 - 2000 Universitary degrees
    Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie (Paris 6).
1999: DEA (one year degree required before doctoral studies) in Artificial Intelligence, with a specialization on Genetic Algorithms.
With honors.

1998: Maîtrise de Mathématiques Appliquées (equivalent to MS in Applied Mathematics)
With honors.


1994 Baccalauréat in sciences (French secondary school diploma)
With honors.



LANGUAGES

English Excellent English, both written and oral (TOEIC 1999: 875/990).

Italian Excellent knowledge.

Chinese Reading knowledge.



COMPUTER SKILLS

Systems DOS, Windows (developer experience on Win32), Unix, extensive knowledge of Linux (developement and system administration).

Programming and text processing languages C, C++, Java, LISP, Prolog, Perl, HTML, PHP, LATEX.




PRACTICAL TRAINING

December 1999 - March 2000 Industrial project, in a 5-person team: "PSA Peugeot-Citroen" research center
     Development of a dedicated on-line data-base, featuring fast indexation, multiple keywords and range search. Automation of the integration of paper archives (2.5 M documents) into this data-base.
April-September 1999 DEA research project: "FRACTALES" group, INRIA Rocquencourt
     A Markovian model of Genetic Algorithms for the optimisation of Hölder functions, under the direction of E.Lutton and J. Levy-Véhel.
March 1999 2nd year ENSTA individual research project
     Selection methods in pursuer-evader games.



PUBLICATIONS

March 2003 - SAC 2003 Introducing Lateral Thinking in Search Engines with Interactive Evolutionary Algorithms.
Evelyne Lutton, Pierre Collet, Yann Landrin-Schweitzer and Thierry Prost - Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2003), Special Track on "Computer Applications in Health Care" (COMPAHEC 2003) - March 9 to 12 2003, Melbourne, Florida, U.S.A.


2003 - EUROGP'03 Interactive GP for Data Retrieval in Medical Databases.
Yann Landrin-Schweitzer, Pierre Collet and Evelyne Lutton - EUROGP'03, 2003.


September 2000 - PPSN VI Perturbation theory for Evolutionary Algorithms: towards an estimation of convergence speed.
Yann LANDRIN-SCHWEITZER, Evelyne LUTTON - Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN VI) - Sept 16-20 2000, Paris, France.





EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Free Software development Administration and development on several collective projects, including:
OKit: a compiler for concatenative languages, for Genetic Programming applications
IQ: a Neural Networks library, implementing progressive network building and learning methods
- and also a 3D rendering engine, several small desktop management applications, web toolkits.

Hobby Collecting and restoring antiques (scientific objects, drawings...).

Sport Skindiving.