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Curriculum Vitae
Specialised in Image Processing and Biomechanics
Engineer Graduate of the École Centrale Paris, France
Nationality: French 
Date of Birth: July the 16th,
1975
Marital status: married
maxime.sermesant@inria.fr
Experience
- 2005 to date
- Research Scientist in the Asclepios Team in INRIA Sophia Antipolis.
- 2007 to date
- Lecturer in Cardiovascular Modelling in the Division of Imaging Sciences, King's College London, Guy and St Thomas' Hospitals.
- Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Medical Image Analysis, Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision and several international conferences.
- 2003-2004
- Research Associate in the Cardiac MR Research Group, Computational Imaging Science Group, King's College London. Located in the Thomas Guy House, Guy's Hospital, London, England.
- 1999 - 2003
- Ph.D. Thesis at INRIA, EPIDAURE Project, with highest honours. Thesis supervisors: N. Ayache and H. Delingette. Subject: Electromechanical Model of the Heart for Image Analysis and Simulation, Nice - Sophia Antipolis University.
- Collaboration with Philips France, Medisys Research Group.
- 1999
- Master Degree research training period (6 months) at INRIA, EPIDAURE Project. Supervisors: N. Ayache and G. Malandain. Subject: Anisotropic Diffusion Filtering for Model Based Segmentation of 4D Cylindrical Echocardiographic Images. Evaluated by L. Cohen.
- 1998 - 1999
- Graduate degree training period (1 day per week) at MATRA SYSTEMS and INFORMATION (EADS Corporate Research Centre France). Subject: Face Recognition.
- 1997
- Summer Training period at SAGEM. Subject: Computer Network Connections Database.
Education
- 1999 - 2002
- Ph.D. student at INRIA, EPIDAURE Project. Thesis supervisors: N. Ayache and H. Delingette. Subject: Electromechanical Model of the Heart for Image Analysis and Simulation, Nice - Sophia Antipolis University.
- 1999
- Graduate of the Engineering School École Centrale Paris, specialization in Applied Mathematics.
- Master Degree (DEA), École Normale Superieure, Cachan, France, in Mathematics, Vision, Learning, with honours.
Grants & Awards
- 2006
- Three years EPSRC funding EP/D060877/1 Electro-anatomical Fusion for Guiding EP Procedures and Patient Specific Modelling.
- Four years European Union funding for the Health-e-Child Integrated Project in Information Society Technologies, contract number: 027749.
- Listed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering.
- Three years DTI funding TP/3/IMG/6/I/17352 for the Electrophysiology Platform for Image-Guided Arrythmia Management (EPIGRAM).
- 2005
- Four years INRIA funding for the Large Initiative Action CardioSense3D.
- 2004
- Finalist for the European Cor Baayen Award for most promising young researcher in computer science and applied mathematics in 2004.
- 2003
- Awarded by the SPECIF society, runner up for the best Computer Science French Ph.D.
- Labelled by the Telecom Valley Association for the best Computer Science Ph.D prepared in the Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur region.
- 1999
- Three years Ph.D funding from the French Ministry of Research and Education.
Languages
English- Fluent. TOEFL: 613, Cambridge First Certificate, with honours.
Spanish- Intermediate.
Chinese- Conversational knowledge. Training period (1 month) at Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, in 1998. Trips to BeiJing in 2005, to Hong-Kong and Taiwan in 2006.
- French
- Mother tongue.
Computer Science
- Languages
- C++, OpenGL, Tcl ⁄ Tk, Python, Fortran, Visual Basic, HTML, PHP, VRML.
- Softwares
- Matlab, Maple, CMake, Pro-Engineer, IDEs, Office.
- Systems
- Linux, Windows, Mac, SUN, DEC.
Publications
Hobbies
- Music
- Drums, guitar, tabla and percussions.
- Sports
- Basket-ball, hiking, canyoning, squash, rollerblade.
