Daniel Déchelotte's Curriculum Vitae

CNRS (Limsi). September 2004 to december 2007.

Automatic Speech Translation by Statistical Methods (in French) (abstract in English, slides in French), directed by Holger Schwenk and Jean-Luc Gauvain.

INRIA (Loria). September 2002 to April 2004.

Four “Perception, Reasoning and Automated Language Processing” courses and two “Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms” courses.

Télécom ParisTech (ENST). September 1999 to July 2002.

The École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications is one of France's leading graduate level engineering schools. I focused on these three subjects: signal processing, computer sciences and economics.

Lycée Hoche. September 1997 to June 1999.

Post secondary school preparing for competitive entrance exams to top French engineering schools of higher education.

• Language modeling: stochastic language models, translation models.
• Automatic speech recognition: acoustic models, decoding strategies.
• Pattern recognition: CRF, Bayesian classification, SVM…
• Machine learning: AdaBoost, active learning…

• Cloud computing: distributed computing with Hadoop and Pig, MapReduce algorithm.
• Languages: C, Python, Java, C++, PHP, Perl, shells, LaTeX…
• OS: Unix (Linux, Solaris, AIX) and Windows.

Issy-les-Moulineaux (France). Since August 2010.

Software developer, working on the Bing search engine.

Neuilly-sur-Seine (France). March 2010 to July 2010.

Project lead / R&D Engineer

Paris (France). April 2008 to March 2010.

Search scientist. Improved and developed models that have been deployed in the search engine. Detected user intent and rewrote queries so as to maximize search results' relevance.

Orsay (France). July 2004 to March 2008.

Designed and implemented Limsi-CNRS' first statistical translation, and took part to several international evaluation campaigns. Ran experiments integrating speech recognition and translation. Published scientific articles and a Ph.D. thesis in IT.

Orsay (France). January 2005 to January 2006.

Practicals teaching in C++, and Algorithmics and System.

T.J. Watson Research Center (New York). April 2003 to April 2004

Ported the large vocabulary, speech-to-speech translation system to a PDA, and worked on utterance disambiguation based on prosody.

Mountain View (California). August 2001 to December 2001.

Created a prototype whose graphic stack allows multiple applications to run simultaneously on a Set-Top Box.

Filton (England). July 2000 to August 2000.

Created from scratch a software tool to test one of the A340-600's on-board computers.

Striving to make content accessible to all and aesthetically pleasing to the greatest number. Currently actively maintained sites:

• The site of the non-profit organisation Frontenac-Amériques (in French)
• My personal site

I used to work on the LIMSI's Ph. D. students web site (currently in French).

Treasurer of Rezel, association allowing every student to be connected to the Internet via the school network (300+ subscribers).