Joël Dumoulin
29 March 1985
Swiss
Rte du Comptoir 19
1700 Fribourg
Switzerland
+41 (0)26 429 69 60
joel [at] dumoulin.ch
Professional experience
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May 2011-Today: Senior researcher at School of Engineering and Architecture of Fribourg
Teaching assistant for computer science courses in Bachelor and Master degrees in the following domains: information systems, human-computer interactions, algorithmic and data structures, machine learning and pattern recognition.Project management and participation in various research projects, e.g., UNICITY (CTI), mCARS (HES-SO), Memories (Hasler Foundation).
Supervision of Bachelor and Master thesis, and other students’ projects.
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2005-2006: Full year internship at Hydro-Exploitation SA, Sion
Employee of the IT department, application development, user support.
Education and training
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2012-2015: Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Engineering, Multimedia and Telecommunication at University of Florence, Italy
PhD Thesis: Emotion recognition in multimedia content and creation of an empathic television in order to improve television user experiences. -
2009-2011: Master of Science HES-SO in Engineering, major in Information and Communication Technologies at HES-SO
Master thesis: Brain Computer Interface research – Gesture recognition of simple hands movement using a brain lightweight headset for driving an electric Smart Wheelchair based on the user’s brain activity (C#, Open-VIBE, SVM). -
2006-2009: Bachelor of Science HES-SO in Computer Science at School of Engineering and Architecture of Fribourg
Graduate work: Design and implementation of a semi-virtual pool game on an interactive table (C#, XAML, Open Dynamics Engine). -
2002-2006: Swiss Federal Certificate (CFC + Maturité technique) in Computer Science at Ecole des Métiers du Valais (EMVS)
Graduate work: Design and implementation of the stock management system for the printer supplies of the company (ASP.NET, MS SQL Server).
Specific skills
- Setting up research projects, IT project management, agile methodologies
- User interfaces and information visualization research
- Algorithmic and data structures
- Computer vision, machine learning and pattern recognition, multimedia processing and automatic annotation, affective modeling and emotions recognition
- Teaching, supervising students
- Augmented reality, virtual reality, semi-virtual reality
- Architecture and software development experience in .Net, J2EE and Python
- Rich Internet Application development, HTML5, JavaScript, RESTful
- Mobile development
- Operating systems, databases, network
Languages
- French: mother tongue
- English / German: very good skills, both written and oral
- Italian: good skills
Interests
- Sport: hiking, climbing
- Computer world: Hardware and software, mobile world, user interface evolution
Technologies and programming languages highlights
Android / Angular2/JS / AzureML / C# / C++ / Caffe / Git / HTML5 / J2EE / Java / JS / .Net / NodeJs / NoSQL / OpenCV / Python / Qt / Ruby / Scikit-learn / SQL / SVM / TypeScript / UML / Unix / XML