Curriculum Vitae

Jean-Sébastien Franco
Single, no children
Dual citizenship, French & American
Born October 5th, 1977 in New York City (USA)

Studies

2002-2005 PhD preparation at the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG, France), specialization in Imagery, Computer Vision and Robotics in the Gravir lab, with the MOVI team, and advisors Edmond Boyer and Radu Horaud, in the area of computer vision. Teaching assistant at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble (ENSIMAG, France).

2001-2002 Masters (DEA) in Imagery, Computer Vision and Robotics at the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG, France), in the GRAVIR lab, with the Imagis team, and advisors Edmond Boyer and Jean-Marc Hasenfratz: Reconstruction 3D en temps-réel pour la réalité virtuelle. Degree obtained in July 2002, ranked second. Obtained the national PhD Grant MNERT.

1998-2001 Prepared and obtained the ENSIMAG engineering degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, with honors.

1995-1998 Preparatory classes to french engineering school competitions in Dijon at the Lycée Carnot, specialization in Physics & Engineering Sciences. Simultaneously obtained the MIAS undergraduate university degree at the Université de Bourgogne, France. Admitted at the ENSIMAG after competitive examinations in 1998.

1995 Baccalauréat (high school graduation) with scientific specialization in Chalon-Sur-Saône (Saône-et-Loire, France), with honors.

Languages

English and French, native languages.

German, fluent. Studied from 1988 to 2001.

Spanish, good abilities. Studied from 1990 to 1995.

Beginner in Japanese, Stendhal university courses, Grenoble from 2000 to 2002

Experiences

Research intern at Infogrames Entertainment, TecLab, Villeurbanne, France from February 26th to June 30th, 2001.
Design and development of a Virtual Cameraman module dedicated to the resolution of camera placement and motion in a real-time 3D environment using a constraint-oriented architecture (static and dynamic obstacle avoidance, object-of-interest framing, designer directives, system resources) and ILOG solver for validation.

Resarch & Development at Quantum Corporation, Milpitas, California - Silicon Valley from June 26th to September 29th, 2000.
Software tools and MPEG player development for disk streaming abilities testing under WinNT (Visual C++ 6.0, DirectShow, MFC, Win32). "Trick mode" algorithms development for advanced MPEG playback.

Student Helper, participated in the organization of the ICCV 2003 conference, Nice, France.