Curriculum

Aurélien Bourquard                                         Born February 7, 1985

Calle de las Delicias 28, Portal F, Piso 1C                    Swiss and French citizen

28045 Madrid, Spain   

Current Position

Chief Data Scientist and Cofounder, Leuko Labs Inc.                                    2017 - Present

Past Positions

Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT linQ (formerly Madrid-MIT M+Visión Consortium)               2013 - 2018

              Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Education

Ph.D. at Biomedical Imaging Group, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)        2008 - 2013

Nominated for the Best EPFL Thesis Award

Degree obtained in December 2013

Thesis title: "Compressed Optical Imaging"

M.Sc. in Microengineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)                              2006 - 2008

Total GPA: 5.87/6 (ranked first among 92 master students)

Degree completed with a Minor in Biomedical Engineering

Individual semester projects related to:

            - Signal/image sampling and interpolation paradigms

            - Algorithmic design optimization of surgical transducers 

            - Negative-refraction metamaterials and invisibility cloaks

B.Sc. in Microengineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)                              2003 - 2006

Swiss Federal Maturity, Gymnase de Burier

Exchange second year 2001-2002 at Schweizer Schule, Milan, Italy

Bilingual degree with excellence award

Experience

- Research in signal/image processing, compressed sensing, and computational optics

7 journal articles and 9 conference papers (co-)authored as per January 2014

- Development of fast algorithms for analysis and reconstruction of high-dimensional data

- Teaching assistant in image-processing courses (exercises and laboratories)

- Reviewer for the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging and for the journals:

 Transactions on Image Processing (IEEE), Transactions on Medical Imaging (IEEE),

Medical Image Analysis (MICCAI Society), Optics Express (Optical Society of America),

IEEE Photonics Journal

- Collaboration on an industrial project with Essilor International S.A.

- Definition, articulation, and defense of translational projects

- Review and evaluation of biomedical-technology project proposals (IDEA2 Review Panel)

Languages 

French: Mother tongue 

English: Fluent (C2 level of European CEFR scale) 

Spanish: Intermediate/Fluent (High Working Proficiency)

German: Intermediate (B2 level of European CEFR scale) 

Italian: Intermediate 

Skills 

Soft: Teamwork and collaboration, transdisciplinarity

Technical: Windows, Mac, Matlab, C/C++, COMSOL, ImageJ, Java, Pro/ENGINEER, SVN 

Invited Talks

Variations on Edge-Enhancing Diffusion: Sparse Interpolation and Beyond

Dagstuhl Seminar 16462, Dagstuhl, Germany, November 13 -18, 2016 .

Awards

Madrid-MIT M+Visión Fellowship, 2013

Madrid-MIT M+Visión Advanced Fellowship, 2015

Extracurricular Activities 

Student Member of the EPFL School of Engineering (STI) Council (served from 2005 to 2006)

Class Representative of the EPFL Microengineering Section (served 6 semesters from 2004 to 2007)

Interests 

Fitness and jogging, languages and travel, martial arts