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SCHWANDER Olivier
7 rue Éric Tabarly
Appartement 481
91300 Massy, France
Phone : (+33)1 69 41 62 97 (Personal), (+33)6 32 38 68 99 (Mobile)
Email: [email protected]
Nationality: French
Date of birth: 05.05.1985
Education and qualifications
• since 2009 PhD student (École Polytechnique, advisor: Frank Nielsen):
• 2009 Master de Recherche en Informatique (Master of Science Degree Computer Science), Université de Rennes 1, École Normale Supérieure de Cachan - Antenne de Bretagne
• 2008 Admitted in the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (through a competitive exam)
• 2008 Master 1 Informatique Fondamentale (Master of Science Degree Computer Science)
• 2007 Licence d’Informatique Fondamentale mention Assez Bien, École Normale Supérieure de
Lyon (Bachelor of Science Degree Computer Science with honours)
Research experience
• since 2009 PhD student: Information Geometric Methods for Mixture Models
• february–june 2009 Internship at the INRIA in the TEXMEX team
• june–august 2008 Internship at the University of Genova (Italy) in the SLIPGURU team
• june–july 2007 Internship at the INRIA in the LEAR team
Languages
• French: mother tongue
• English: fluent
• Italian: fluent
Computer skills
• Languages: Python (Numpy/Scipy), C (GSL, OpenCV), OCaml, Perl, Shell, LATEX, Maple,
knowledge in Haskell, Matlab/Octave, PHP, MySQL
• Operating systems Linux (particularly Debian)
Additional information
• Language travels: Great Britain (Cardiff) and Italy (Genoa), various international conferences
• Personal Interests: reading, electronic, playing music (trumpet, French horn)
References
• References can be supplied on request.
Publications
Journal and book chapters
• Evaluating mixture models for building RNA knowledge-based potentials
Adelene Y. L. Sim, Olivier Schwander, Michael Levitt et Julie Bernauer, Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, 2012
• Learning mixtures by simplifying Kernel Density Estimators
Olivier Schwander et Frank Nielsen, in Matrix Information Geometry, Springer, 2012
• Extended k-MLE: A Fast algorithm for Gamma and Generalized Gaussian mixture
models
Olivier Schwander et Frank Nielsen, submitted
Conferences
• Reranking with Contextual dissimilarity measures from representational Bregman
k-means
Olivier Schwander and Frank Nielsen, VISAPP 2010
• Bhattacharyya clustering with applications to mixture simplifications
Frank Nielsen, Sylvain Boltz, and Olivier Schwander, ICPR 2010
• Non-flat clustering whith alpha-divergences
Olivier Schwander and Frank Nielsen, ICASSP 2011
• pyMEF - A framework for Exponential Families in Python
Olivier Schwander and Frank Nielsen, SSP 2011
• Model centroids for the simplification of kernel density estimators
Olivier Schwander and Frank Nielsen, ICASSP 2012
• k-MLE for mixtures of generalized Gaussians
Olivier Schwander, Frank Nielsen, Aurélien Schutz and Yannick Berthoumieu, ICPR 2012
• Fast learning of Gamma mixture models with k-MLE
Olivier Schwander, Frank Nielsen, SIMBAD 2013
Conference duties
• Member of the Program Committee of the GSI2013 conference (http://www.gsi2013.org/)
• Member of the Organization Committee of the MIG workshop (http://www.informationgeometry.
org/MIG/)
• Reviews for ICASSP, SIMBAD, GSI, SSP
Teaching duties
• Teaching assistant at the University Paris-Sud: network, compilation, functional programming,
software development project for levels from L3 to M2 (about 192h)
• Teaching assistant in Classes Préparatoires (preparation to competitive exams for French Grandes
Écoles): computer algebra system (Maple), basic algorithms and programming (about 128h)
Summer schools and Internships
Summer schools
• INRIA Visual Recognition and Machine Learning Summer School
Grenoble, 26-30 July 2010
• International Computer Vision Summer School
Sicily, 11-16 July 2011
Interships
• LEAR group, INRIA Rhône-Alpes
2 months, advisors: Frédéric Jurie, Eric Nowak
• Slipguru group, Università degli studi di Genova
3 months, advisors: Pr. Alessandro Verri, Nicola Rebagliati
• TEXMEX group, INRIA Bretagne-Atlantique
5 months, advisor: Annie Morin