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François Chung, Ph.D.
Currently, I am Functional Analyst at Zetes (BE). Prior to that, I have been working as a Scientific Software Engineer at CISTIB from UPF (ES), R&D Engineer in Intelligent Systems at Inspiralia (ES), Consultant in Energy Efficiency at E²=MC (BE), Consultant in Software Implementation at Sofico (BE), Business Analyst at FIS (BE), and Digital Business Analyst at Fujitsu (BE).
Since January 2011, I am Ph.D. in Computer Science from Mines ParisTech (FR). My Ph.D. was done at Asclepios, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis (FR). My thesis mainly deals with the analysis of medical images and took place within the framework of the EU Marie Curie project 3D Anatomical Human (3DAH).
Before starting my Ph.D., I took courses in computer vision and robotics at ViCOROB, UdG (ES). In 2005, I graduated Industrial Engineer in Computer Science (Ing./M.Sc.) from ISIB (BE).
Acronyms
- CISTIB Computational Imaging and Simulation Technologies in Biomedicine (ES)
- FIS Fidelity National Information Services Inc. (US)
- INRIA Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (FR)
- ISIB Institut Supérieur Industriel de Bruxelles (BE)
- UdG Universitat de Girona (ES)
- UPF Universitat Pompeu Fabra (ES)
- ViCOROB Visió per Computador i Robòtica (ES)
My professional experience
Artificial Intelligence
Financial Services
Fleet Management
Energy Efficiency
Image Processing
Medical Imaging
Where I work
Where I worked
Where I studied
Positions I held
Business Analyst
Consultant
R&D Engineer
Software Engineer
My diplomas
Ph.D.
Ing./M.Sc.
For whom I work (and worked)
Where I studied
Fun Facts
Years Abroad
8Spoken Languages
5Publications
22Visited Countries
50Resume
My Curriculum Vitae
Professional experience
Since 2020
Functional Analyst
Zetes, Belgium
Functional analysis within the People ID division, which integrates secure people authentication solutions based on biometric, AFIS and smart card technologies, in the areas of people registration, secure document production and personalization, data centralization and electronic voting.
Main tasks: Combining the roles of Product Owner, Analyst and Scrum Master; Co-authoring products and services roadmap; Managing the product backlog; Collaborating with business owners, testers and developers; Facilitating discussion, decision making and conflict resolution.
2019-2020
Digital Business Analyst
Fujitsu, Belgium
Business consultancy and business development support within the Digital Business Solutions (DBS) department, which covers artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, robotic process automation (RPA), data analytics and quantum-inspired computing.
Main tasks: Gathering and analyzing business requirements from the customer; Supporting technical analysis to translate requirements into technical specifications; Creating functional deliverables according to business requirements; Managing transition and handover to the customer.
Related projects: Trends debate: technology and privacy; Digital Annealer.
2016-2018
Business Analyst
FIS, Belgium
Business analysis, project coordination and product implementation of digital platforms that handle payments, disputed transactions and transactional services between a company, its partners and its customers.
Main tasks: Meeting the client to discuss its business needs; Project coordination during the software implementation phase; Installation and configuration of the solution within the client’s environment; Product presentation, user training and post project support.
Related projects: Visa Claims Resolution; CBK software.
2015-2016
Consultant in Software Implementation
Sofico, Belgium
Implementation of Miles, which is a flexible end-to-end software for automotive finance, leasing, fleet and mobility management, after the analysis of the client’s requirements and their translation into a configuration solution.
Main tasks: Business consulting (e.g. functional analysis and reporting); Participation in the technical aspects of the implementation (e.g. batch processing, interface, security, data mapping, testing); Budget determination for configuration and migration; Participation in pre-sales and commercial activities.
Related projects: VWFS México; Miles software.
2013-2015
Consultant in Energy Efficiency
E²=MC, Belgium
Implementation of energy efficiency policies aimed at improving the rational use of energy and the energy performance of buildings (e.g. improvement of the thermal insulation and both heating and lighting systems).
Main tasks: Project management (e.g. supervision of subcontracted work, writing and management of both technical and activity reports); Analysis of energy efficiency-related works (e.g. using technical, energetic and economic criteria so as to determine their relevance and rank them according to their energy efficiency).
Related projects: Brufodebat; UREBA Exceptionnel.
2012-2013
R&D Engineer
Inspiralia/Pera, Spain
Design, proposal and implementation of industrial projects based on intelligent systems (e.g. pattern recognition, data analysis, image processing and artificial intelligence) for the benefit of SMEs in European consortiums.
Main tasks: Participation in the data acquisition; Implementation of state-of-the-art algorithms; Prototype creation based on Matlab and C++ in a Windows environment; Supervision of subcontracted work; Writing of both technical reports and scientific publications.
Related project: APIFRESH.
2011-2012
Scientific Software Engineer
CISTIB, UPF, Spain
Participation in the development of GIMIAS, which is a workflow-oriented software framework whose objective is the fast prototyping of applications for solving advanced biomedical image computing and simulation problems.
Main tasks: Programming within the team using SVN; C++ plugin development in a Windows environment; Use of open source libraries (e.g. VTK, ITK, wxWidgets); Software optimization to speed up computation time.
Related project: GIMIAS framework.
2007-2010
Ph.D. Candidate
Asclepios, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France
Early Stage Researcher (ESR) in the EU Marie Curie project 3D Anatomical Human (3DAH). Main research topics include liver segmentation in CT images, bone segmentation in MR images and unsupervised clustering.
Main tasks: Programming within the team using CVS and SVN; State-of-the-art algorithm prototyping in Matlab; Software development in a Linux environment; Use of open source libraries (e.g. VTK, ITK, STL); Bash scripting; Code parallelization.
Related projects: 3D Anatomical Human; Multimodal prior; 3D reconstruction; Musculoskeletal simulation.
2006
Team Member
ViCOROB, UdG, Spain
Participation in the SAUC-E robotics competition within the VICOROB-UdG team, which won the 2006 edition in London. Development of a program based on image processing for the real-time tracking of underwater objects.
Main tasks: Real-time tracking of underwater objects using image processing; Programming in C in an embedded environment; Algorithm optimization to speed up computation time so as to reach real-time image processing (25 frames per second).
Related project: SAUC-E competition.
2005
Intern
EASI, Belgium
Implementation of a centralized supervision system, which consists in detecting failures from various infrastructures on the network (e.g. servers, printers and workstations) and in generating alarms in a software interface.
Main tasks: Installation and deployment of a supervision system in a multi-platform environment (e.g. Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, OS/400); Plugin development using both Shell and Perl scripts; Creation of a multi-user mode based on LDAP authentication.
Related project: Centralized supervision.
Education
2007-2010
Mines ParisTech
École des Mines de Paris, France
Ph.D. in Computer Science (Image Processing)
2005-2007
UdG
Universitat de Girona, SpainPh.D. courses in Computer Vision and Robotics
2001-2005
ISIB
Institut Supérieur Industriel de Bruxelles, Belgium
Industrial Engineer in Computer Science (Ing.)
Master in Industrial Engineer Sciences (M.Sc.)
Languages
French
English
Spanish
Dutch
Catalan
Professional trainings
2014-2020
Coursera
Data science specialization
Covid-19: epidemiology and contact tracing
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies
Neural networks and deep learning
Accounting and finance for IT professionals
Project planning and management
Learning how to learn
Introduction to operations management
Sustainability in practice
Global sustainable energy
Acronyms
- AFIS Automated Fingerprint Identification System
- AWS Amazon Web Services
- CSS Cascading Style Sheets
- CT Computed Tomography
- CVS Concurrent Versions System
- GCP Google Cloud Platform
- GDB The GNU Debugger
- GIMIAS Graphical Interface for Medical Image Analysis and Simulation
- ITIL Information Technology Infrastructure Library
- ITK The Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit
- LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
- MR Magnetic Resonance
- PHP Hypertext Preprocessor
- PRINCE2 PRojects IN Controlled Environments
- SAUC-E Student Autonomous Underwater Challenge – Europe
- SMEs Small and Medium Enterprises
- STL Standard Template Library
- Tcl/Tk Tool Command Language/Tool Kit
- SVN Apache Subversion
- VTK The Visualization Toolkit
- XHTML Extensible Hypertext Markup Language
Portfolio
Overview of some of my work and experience
Digital Annealer
Projects
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency technologies
Trainings
Mines 2018 – Magazine article
Publications
PRINCE2 Foundation
Trainings
Neural networks and deep learning
Trainings
CBK software
Projects
Certified first response
Trainings
EUE 2017 – Book
Publications
Project planning and management
Trainings
Requirements engineering
Trainings
VWFS México
Projects
Introduction to Scrum
Trainings
Miles software
Projects
Sustainability in practice
Trainings
COMPAG 2015 – Academic journal article
Publications
Global sustainable energy
Trainings
Brufodebat
Projects
APIFRESH
Projects
CVIU 2013 – Academic journal article
Publications
GIMIAS framework
Projects
Mines 2012 – Magazine article
Publications
LAP 2011 – Book
Publications
Ph.D. Thesis 2011 – Doctoral thesis
Publications
3D Anatomical Human
Projects
MICCAI 2009 – Conference proceeding
Publications
ORASIS 2009 – Conference proceeding
Publications
SAUC-E competition
ProjectsBibliography
List of my publications
2020 | |
| 1. | Combler le fossé quantique, aujourd’hui magazine article DataNews, 2, p. 5, 2020. |
| 2. | De kwantumkloof dichten, vandaag de dag magazine article DataNews, 2, p. 5, 2020. |
2018 | |
| 3. | Une politique énergétique belge à multi-niveaux magazine article Mines Revue des Ingénieurs, 499, pp. 27-29, 2018. |
2017 | |
| 4. | Éditions universitaires européennes (EUE), Saarbrücken, 2017, ISBN: 978-3841677907. |
2015 | |
| 5. | Automated pollen identification using microscopic imaging and texture analysis academic journal article Micron, 68 (0), pp. 36-46, 2015, ISSN: 0968-4328. |
| 6. | Pollen segmentation and feature evaluation for automatic classification in bright-field microscopy academic journal article Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (COMPAG), 110 (0), pp. 56–69, 2015, ISSN: 0168-1699. |
2013 | |
| 7. | Regional appearance modeling based on the clustering of intensity profiles academic journal article Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), 117 (6), pp. 705-717, 2013, ISSN: 1077-3142. |
| 8. | A general framework for multi-focal image classification and authentication: Application to microscope pollen images technical report Inspiralia, Madrid, 2013. |
2012 | |
| 9. | Automatic pollen grain and exine segmentation from microscope images technical report Inspiralia, Madrid, 2012. |
| 10. | A software framework for 3D reconstruction and fracture risk assessment of the proximal femur from dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry conference proceeding VPH 2012: Virtual Physiological Human - Integrative approaches to computational biomedicine, London, 2012. |
| 11. | De l'imagerie médicale à la médecine du futur magazine article Mines Revue des Ingénieurs, 458, pp. 53-56, 2012. |
| 12. | L'imagerie médicale: Un domaine d'ingénieurie et de recherche au service de la société magazine article L'Ing., 17, pp. 10-12, 2012. |
2011 | |
| 13. | Lambert Academic Publishing (LAP), Saarbrücken, 2011, ISBN: 978-3844322095. |
| 14. | Comparison of statistical models performance in case of segmentation using a small amount of training datasets academic journal article The Visual Computer (TVC), 27 (2), pp. 141-151, 2011, ISSN: 0178-2789. |
| 15. | Regional appearance modeling for deformable model-based image segmentation doctoral thesis Doctoral thesis (Ph.D. Thesis), Mines ParisTech, Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées, 2011. |
2009 | |
| 16. | Multimodal prior appearance models based on regional clustering of intensity profiles conference proceeding MICCAI 2009: Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (5762), Springer Berlin Heidelberg, London, 2009, ISBN: 978-3-642-04270-6. |
| 17. | Subject-specific ligament models: Towards real-time simulation of the knee joint conference proceeding CBM 2009: Computational Biomechanics for Medicine IV, Springer New York, London, 2009, ISBN: 978-1-4419-5873-0. |
| 18. | Reconstruction 3D des structures anatomiques des membres inférieurs conference proceeding ORASIS'09: Congrès des jeunes chercheurs en vision par ordinateur, Association Française pour la Reconnaissance et l'Interprétation des Formes (AFRIF), Trégastel, 2009. |
| 19. | Musculoskeletal simulation model generation from MRI datasets and motion capture data book chapter Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann; Jian J Zhang; David D Feng (Ed.): Recent Advances in the 3D Physiological Human (3DPH), pp. 3-19, Springer-Verlag, London, 2009, ISBN: 978-1-84882-565-9. |
2006 | |
| 20. | ICTINEU AUV, un robot per a competir conference proceeding CCIA 2006: Congrés Català d'Intel.ligència Artificial, Associació Catalana d’Intel.ligència Artificial (ACIA), Perpignan, 2006. |
| 21. | ICTINEU AUV takes the challenge technical report Universitat de Girona (UdG), Girona, 2006. |
2005 | |
| 22. | Supervision centralisée d'infrastructures distantes en réseaux avec gestion des alarmes et notification des alertes master's thesis Master’s thesis (M.Sc. Thesis), Institut Supérieur Industriel de Bruxelles (ISIB), 2005. |
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Visited countries
List of visited countries
- A Andorra, Austria
- B Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria
- C Canada, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic
- D Denmark
- E Estonia
- F Finland, France
- G Germany, Greece
- H Hungary
- I Ireland, Italy
- J Jordan
- L Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg
- M Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco
- N Netherlands, Northern Cyprus, Norway
- P Poland, Portugal
- R Romania, Russia
- S Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland
- T Thailand, Turkey
- U Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States
- V Vatican City