My Curriculum Vitae
PDF version (last update: spring 2009)
HTML version
Personal data:
Personal interests and hobbies:
- Digital image processing and restoration: was the topic of my Ph.D research. An interest grown from my graduation thesis work and
from my interest in astronomy (degraded images from the Hubble Space Telescope e.g.). More general, image
processing and interpretation is one of my major interests. Recently, it is more oriented to computer vision.
- Astronomy.
-
Music and related stuff. I like all kinds of good music.
- The Eighties. Sometimes also Bob Marley, The Beatles, Doe Maar, ...
- Electronic music: It all started with popular synthesizer music, like Jean-Michel Jarre and Vangelis.
Later, I also developed a taste for synthesizer music, on the edge of new age and ambient, like Tangerine
Dream, Software, Klaus Schulze. More recently, it evolves to lounge music (Buddha Bar, Plastyc Buddha, ...).
- In fact, I like more and more different kinds of music...
-
Computers and internet.
-
Humor, especially the "Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy" of
Douglas Adams, but also Monty Python, Mel Brooks and related...
- Geekcode (see also The geekcode decoder page)
GS/CS d+ s: a- C++ ULIS++ P+ L++ E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w O M V PS+ PE+ Y+ PGP t+ 5+ X+ R- tv b+ DI+ D G e+++ h
Work experience:
- jan 2000 - jun 2005: Researcher (PhD student) at Ghent University, Belgium. Research and
comparison of deconvolution algorithms in image processing (implemented in matlab and C). Teaching
of Office Automatization (Master after Master course: teaching students advanced working with Office
software)
- jun 2005 - mar 2008 : Researcher/developer at IncGEO. Investigating and implementing software for
computer vision in geographical and remote sensing applications (tools: C++, Qt, ...).
- apr 2008 - ... : Postdoc at Ghent University, Department of Telecommunications and Information Processing. Follow-up of research projects.
Education:
| 1987-1993: |
General Secundary Education (highschool) Scientific B at Sint-Jozef-Klein-Seminarie
in Sint-Niklaas |
| 1993-1994: |
Special scientific education (seventh year of highschool, with only mathematics) at
the Sint-Amandusinstitute, Ghent |
| 1994-1999: |
Licentiate in physics (option experimental physics) at Ghent University, Belgium
(3rd year: distinction, 4th
year great distinction. Degree of diploma: distinction.) More about my
licentiate thesis. |
| 1999-2000 | Researcher at the faculty of Bio-engineering at the dept.
of Molecular Biotechnology under Prof. P. Van Oostveldt. This work was focused on biophysics and imaging in cell
biology (confocal fluorescence microscopy) and image processing techniques. |
| 2000-2005 |
PhD "Nonlinear Techniques in Image Restoration applied to Confocal Microscopy", defended with sucess on
friday, 10th of
June 2005 at Ghent University, Belgium. The work was supervised bij prof. dr. ir. W. Philips at the
faculty of engineering, department TELIN. See
here for more details, the full thesis in PDF format, members of
the jury during the defense, etc. |
Research stays in foreign institutions
2004: Departement of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Universidad de Granada, Spain. Host:
prof. dr. Javier Portilla (2 months), who now works at
the Instituto de Óptica in Madrid, Spain.
Knowledge of languages:
| Language | spoken | written |
| Dutch | Native | Native |
| French | well | well |
| English | very well | very well |
| German | moderate | moderate |
| Spanish | basics | basics |
Misc.:
- Since 1990 member of VVS (=Vereniging Voor Sterrenkunde, the Belgian Association for amateur astronomers)
- 1995-99: student representative in the physics education commission
- 1998-99: student representative in the working group for preperation for the visitation commission
physics at Ghent University)
- European Driving Licence B
- Certificate Practical Spanish level 2 at Ghent University Language Center
