Biography

I am a research associate at Imperial College London, in the BioMedIA group, under Prof. Daniel Rueckert.

I’m leading the informatics platform of the developing Human Connectome Project.

My research interests focus on distributed computing and software engineering applied to medical image analysis.

More recently, I started investigating the application of distributed computing to large neuroscientific datasets and algorithms.

I’ve studied the distribution of pseudorandom numbers on GPUs during my PhD in High Performance Computing, under the supervision of Prof. David R.C. Hill and Dr. Claude Mazel.

In parallel with my activities at Imperial College London, I’m a scientific consultant at Donaco Ltd. Donaco is a startup that aims to facilitate online donations. It dynamically embeds a widget in news media articles that recommends relevant charities to the reader and offers a seamless donation experience.

• Reproducible large-scale neuroimaging studies with the OpenMOLE workflow management system

  Details PDF Code Dataset Project

• Group-wise parcellation of the cortex through multi-scale spectral clustering

  Details PDF Slides Code Dataset

• Building an ecosystem of functional libraries for the OpenMOLE scientific platform: from batch jobs to automatic model parameter tuning

  Mon, Jul 10, 2017, ScalaX bytes meetup

• GridScale: a Journey from Object-Oriented to (More) Functional Programming

  Fri, Dec 9, 2016, Scala eXchange 2016

Imperial College London (UK)

Labs and tutorials

• Computer Graphics: OpenGL
• Functional programming in Haskell: Introduction to functional programming
• Java: Introduction to the language

Student projects supervised

• Various undergraduate and MSc projects supervised
• New Voice Media Prize in 2016 awarded for an outstanding individual project in the area of data science to Adrian Draghici (MEng4), Cloud computing for big data experiments

ISIMA (Engineering School, France)

Courses led

• Software Engineering 101: Git, Debugging with gdb
• C++: Unit Testing (gtest), Template Meta-Programming, Standard Library
• UML: Design Pattern, Class, State, Sequence Diagrams
• Java: Java 7, Swing
• Distributed computing: Cluster (PBS), Grid (EGI)
• GPU Computing: CUDA, SIMD architecture

Student projects supervised

• Various MEng projects supervised covering GPU parallelisation
• Some associated publications (1, 2)

MSc in Computer Science (Blaise Pascal University, France)

Courses led

• Introduction to parallel programming with CUDA

• Academic CV
• Resume

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