Julien Quint, PhD: Resume

Contact

E-mail: consulting@romulusetrem.us
Website: http://consulting.romulusetrem.us/

E-mail me for phone number and snail mail address.

Work Experience

Consultant

http://consulting.romulusetrem.us, Paris, since January 2009.

I am constantly looking for challenging and innovative tasks related to XML, Web and multimedia technologies with a strong focus on accessibility and internationalization. Some projects of note:

(more details available upon request.)

Research and Development Expert

DAISY For All/NRCD, Tokyo, April 2005 to March 2007; then
DAISY Consortium, Tokyo/Paris, May 2007 to November 2008

Team leader, Urakawa Project application team (design and implementation of the Obi DAISY/NISO Digital Talking Book editor.) • Represented DAISY Consortium in W3C Synchronized Multimedia and Compound Document Formats working groups, and participated in DAISY Next specification efforts • Participated in DAISY training and AMIS translation workshops in India, Thailand, and Tunisia.

Visiting Researcher

National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, November 2002 to November 2004
(JSPS Fellow, post-doctoral program)

Work on weighted finite-state transducers, SVG and Web-based applications related to electronic dictionaries, learning and reading aids.

Assistant teacher (ATER)

ENSIMAG, National Polytechnic Institute, Grenoble, France, December 2000 to September 2001

Taught various subjects, including algorithms (with Ada as support language), compilation and assembly (using C and SPARC assembly) to third-year students.

Research Engineer

Xerox Research Centre Europe, Meylan, France, December 1997 to November 2000

Worked in the MLTT team on finite-state natural language processing, notably morphological analysis and text segmentation, and on Ph.D project. Also did some various teaching assistant jobs for third-year students at the Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble.

Education

Thèse (PhD) in Computer Science

Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France, 2002

Designed a language-independent formalism aimed at presyntactic processing, notably segmentation, of multilingual text documents. Research conducted at the (now) GETALP laboratory under the direction of Professor Christian Boitet and at XRCE under the supervision of Jean-Pierre Chanod; and for a short time at the UTMK laboratory of the Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang.

DEA (MS) in Computer Science

Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France, 1997. Mention bien (honors)

Research conducted at XRCE under the direction of Jean-Pierre Chanod on the topic of finite-state morphology and word indexing. Rebuilt a real-world morphological analyzer for French nouns and compound nouns.

Maîtrise (BA) in Computer Science

Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France, 1996. Mention bien (honors)

Graduated with honors. Spent the 1995-1996 year as an exchange student at the University of California, Berkeley.

Publications (selected)

  1. Dick Bulterman, Jack Jansen, Pablo Cesar, Sjoerd Mullender, Eric Hyche, Marisa DeMeglio, Julien Quint, Hiroshi Kawamura, Daniel Weck, Xabiel García Pañeda, David Melendi, Samuel Cruz-Lara, Marcin Hanclik, Daniel F. Zucker, Thierry Michel, ed. Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 3.0), W3C Recommendation 01 December 2008.
  2. Timur Mehrvarz, Lasse Pajunen, Julien Quint and Daniel Appelquist, ed. Compound Document by Reference Framework 1.0, W3C Candidate Recommendation 18 July 2007. (See also: WICD Core 1.0, WICD Mobile 1.0 Profile and WICD Full 1.0 Profile.)
  3. Julien Quint and Ulrich Apel. Does Learning How to Read Japanese Have to Be So Difficult, And Can the Web Help? in the proceedings of the WWW 2005 conference, Chiba, Japan, May 2005. Won best poster award.
  4. Julien Quint and Ulrich Apel. Teaching and Reference Material on Japanese Kanji in SVG. Stroke Order, Animated Drawing of Characters, Kanji components and their relationships, in the proceedings of the SVG Open 2004 conference, Tokyo, Japan, September 2004.
  5. Julien Quint. On the Equivalence of Weighted Finite-state Transducers, in the proceedings of the ACL 2004 conference (Companion volume), pp. 181-184, Barcelona, Spain, July 2004.
  6. Julien Quint. Automatic Japanese Transliteration with a Formalism for Presyntactic Analysis, in the proceedings of the NLPKE 2003 conference, pp. 512-518, Beijing, China, October 2003.
  7. Julien Quint. A Formalism for Language-Independent Text Segmentation in the proceedings of the COLING 2000 conference, pp. 656-662, Saarbrücken, Germany, August 2000.

Software

Languages

Natural languages: French (native speaker), English (fluent), Japanese (intermediate level), Italian (rudimentary). Programming languages: Perl, C, C#, Javascript (fluent); Python, C++, XSLT (comfortable); Ada, Scheme (rusty); Java (allergic.)

References