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e-mail: Denis.Brunet@unige.ch

Degrees

My background is in Computer Sciences, with a special focus on scientific applications like numerical analysis, signal processing, image analysis, mathematics and physics. I also specialized in the field of Computer Graphics.

I got a Licence degree in Computer Sciences from the University of Geneva (Switzerland), in 1987, and a Master degree in Computer Sciences from University Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg (France), in 1988.

Current position

Now I'm working in the Functional Brain Mapping Laboratory of Prof. Christoph Michel, Geneva, since 1996. Yup, that's already more than ten years!

I started at the lab by programming some visual and audio stimuli (on Mac, poor me), so I get my first contact with electrodes and all these sorts of things at that time.

Then I began a little application in C++, which I named Cartool, first to plot EEGs, then scalp potentials and inverse solutions. Year after year, this program gets bigger and bigger, and does now a huge lot more than this, with a lot of processings, sleek 3D graphics and user interface. We also distribute the program on the internet since 2005.

Finally, though I spend my days programming Cartool, my role evolved into the one of designing and integrating new methods in the software, as to be able to distribute our tools and knowledge to other researchers.

Stuff from the past (abridged)

I worked one year as a Research Assistant on the Melanie project, an analysis tool of 2D Electrophoresis for cancer research. This was actually my first collaboration with the University Hospital of Geneva, back in 1989!

I've done the French civil army service for one year by doing some teachings in bureautic (mainly) to job seekers and secretaries, until 1990.

I then worked as a Research Assistant on a robotic project (the infamous Potato Operation) in the Lab of Prof. Thierry Pun, University of Geneva. The aim of the project was to combine Image Analysis and Robotic to automatize the sampling and the test for viruses in potatoes, which could seriously affect the crops. Done this for one year, from 1990 to 1991, pretty funny actually.

Still in the Lab of Prof. Pun, I made some research on Artificial Vision, in the field of color perception, and lately about designing a distributed architecture to process visual features asynchronously into more abstract items. This for three years, until 1994.