With a background in Information Retrieval and Distributed Database Systems, during the last years I have developped a strong intrest in reserach projects involving data mining algorithms, big data storage and analysis and machine learning.
Working on cross-disciplinary projects has always fascinated me. I am curious to learn from and communicate with the professionals from diverse fields. My key areas of interest include:
- Sustainable Energy
- Media, Arts and Cultural Heritage
- Social Impact
Projects
- SIG Digital Twin (Contract for Geneva Industrial Service of Geneva)
Deployment of a digital twin demonstrator on the SIG site allowing integration of SIG’s electrical distribution network topology and measurements data, through a data validation and aggregation process. Implementation of a visualization and simulation platform fed by the digital twin. - TwinDiGrid (Innosuisse, 2022-2023): A Grid Insight Platform composed of a data-driven and real-time digital twin of distribution grids linked to an easy-to-develop-and demonstrate environment. It allows to efficiently generate insights and business values from grid federated and trusted data.
- RST-Control (Hasler Foundation grant, 2021-2022) : Real-time stream processing applied to efficient control of distributed renewable energy sources in smart grids.
- Grid Data Digger (Innosuisse, 2019-2021): An automated Distribution Grid
Operation Assistance Tool using Data-Driven solutions on a big-data Platform. Implementation of the complete grid ingestion platform and the grid data analysis modules using Apache Spark and Spark Streaming. - Dermintel – An AI powered Digital Care Compagnion (2016-2018). Technical supervision leading to the co-funding of the start-up by my Master student.
- DermaQA – Automatic Gerneration of a Dermatology Question Dataset (2018): Automatic detection of similar dermatology-related questions from community-based question-answering forums using IR and deep-learning.
- CrowdStreams (HES-SO grant, 2015-2017): Real-time analysis and monitoring of mobility in the proximity of big events using Apache Spark and ML-LIB machine-learning library.
- Livre Artist (Contract, Bibliothèque National Suisse, 2014-2015): Extraction and analysis of annotations from the complete bibliographic collection possessed by Bibliothèque National Suisse (BNS) in order to characterize artistic works.
- RT-DLP (Contract, Crossing-Tech SA, 2014-2015): Real-Time Content-based Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Technology Feasibility Study. Comparison of Spark, Storm, Hadoop and Hbase for the implementation of a scalable DLP tool.
- SR-DLP (Hasler Foundation grant, 2013-2014): Efficient and Scalable Near Duplicate Detection for Content-based Data Leakage Detection, comparison of four MapReduce algorithms.
- Ef-NDD (RCSO grant, 2012-2013): Efficient Near Duplicate Detection. Improving the efficiency of Near Duplicate Detection algorithms for security audit.
- ClusterSITG (Contract, l’état de Génève, 2012-2013): Automatic clustering and semantic linking of the geographical metadata of the terms used by “Service des Systèmes d’Information et de Géomatique (SSIG) de l’état de Genève”.
- Thesauro (RCSO grant, 2011-2012): Thesaurus Automatic Reorganization. Association rules mining on the RTS (Radio Télévision Swiss Romande) archive to restructure their thesaurus. The result prototype is currently used at the RTS.
- Health Social Media Monitoring (prototype for SwissRe Life & Health R&D, 2011-2012) : A tweet classification prototype to analyse patients, diseases and medications.
- NotreHistoireMobile (Contract, RTS, 2011-2012): Mobile applications on iOS and Android developed following the Mobiwalk platform for the RTS notrehistoire.ch.
- NDD (Contract, Price WaterhouseCoopers, 2010-2011): Design and implementation of Near Duplicate Detection algorithms with high precision. The result was an audit tool tested and exclusively used for one year by PWC.
- Mobilwalk (RCSO grant, 2009-2011): A generic platform to provide multimedia- based services to the users on the move.
- Walking-the-edit (Contract, ECAL, 2008-2009).
In the past, I have been working on audiovisual retrieval for cultural heritage applications
- Video annotation enrichment
- User oriented video querying and browsing
- Audiovisual description standards, MPEG-7 querying