Welcome to Igor Carron's page

Primary contact information: igorcarron@gmail.com

Profiles: LinkedIn (Top 1% most viewed profile in 2012)

Blog: Nuit Blanche 

Social: Twitter.

• How can one gather large amount of data efficiently ?
• How does one make sense of them ? and
• How can one act on them ?

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Compressive Sensing, Matrix Factorization, Big Data, Machine Learning ...

• Talks:
• Technical 
• From Direct Imaging to Machine Learning ... a rapid panorama, 9ème édition des Journées « Imagerie Optique Non Conventionnelle », March 19/20th, 2014
• Un imageur compressé utilisant les milieux multiplement diffusants, A. Liutkus,  D. Martina, S. Popoff, G. Chardon, O. Katz, G. Lerosey, S. Gigan, L. Daudet, I. Carron, 9ème édition des Journées « Imagerie Optique Non Conventionnelle »,  March 19/20th, 2014
• Advanced Matrix Factorizations, Machine Learning and all that, Paris Machine Learning Meetup #9, March 12th, 2014
• Compressive Sensing: What is it good for ? Supelec, April 24th, 2013 (talk, talk version 2)
• Outreach
• Making Sense of IoT data, Internet of Things Paris Meetup #5, March 19th, 2014
• Presentation/Context of the Machine Learning Meetup #7
• Presentation/Context of the Machine Learning Meetup #6 (video)
• Presentation/Context of the Machine Learning Meetup #5
• Machine Learning: What is it good for ? Paris Machine Learning Applications Meetup #3, September 17th, 2013
• Les Cameras Aleatoires ( Random Imagers ), DorkBot, Paris, 2012.
• Parallel Computing for Compressive Sensing: What is it Good For ?, Parallel Camp, Paris 2010.
• Academic Pages:
• The following pages feature highly technical information of interest to experts:
• Compressive Sensing: The Big Picture
• The Advanced Matrix Factorization Jungle Page
• Academic Blog: 
• Nuit Blanche : a technical blog with over two million and a half views since 2010. Nuit Blanche has been mentioned so far in:
• Readers' testimonials.
• Outreach magazines:
• Wired,  Fill in the Blanks: Using Math to Turn Lo-Res Datasets Into Hi-Res Samples
• IEEE Information Theory Society Newsletter,  
• La Recherche, 
• October 2010, page 20-21
• February 2014 and here 
  
• Books
• "Optical and Digital Image Processing - Fundamentals and Application, Chapter "Compressed Sensing: When sparsity meets sampling" 

• Scientific publications:
• Measure what should be measured: Progress and Challenges in Compressive Sensing.,
• Why do commercial CT scanners still employ traditional, filtered back-projection for image reconstruction?., 
• Compressive ghost imaging, 
• Super-resolution far-field ghost imaging via compressive sampling, etc
• Other outreach initiatives: 
• Meetup co-organizer: 
• Paris Machine Learning applications (more than 725 members)
• Paris GraphLab Users
• LinkedIn groups curation: 
• Compressive Sensing Group (more than 2800 members) ,
• Advanced Matrix Factorization group (more than 880 members)
• Paris Machine Learning Group (more than 310 members)
• The Calibration Club, 
• Gaussian Belief Propagation: Theory and Practice,
• Robust Mathematical Modeling
• Reddit group  curation: 
• Compressive Sensing (more than 290 members)
• Google+ group  curation: 
•  Compressive Sensing, RandNLA, Matrix Factorization: Defeating the Data Tsunami, one algorithm at a time (more than 850 members)

• Technical Preprints:
• Imaging With Nature: A Universal Analog Compressive Imager Using a Multiply Scattering Medium, Antoine Liutkus, David Martina, Sébastien Popoff, Gilles Chardon, Ori Katz, Geoffroy Lerosey, Sylvain Gigan, Laurent Daudet, Igor Carron
• Presentation: Transmission Matrix Approach to Information Transfer through Complex Media, Sébastien Popoff, Antoine Liutkus, David Martina, Ori Katz, Gilles Chardon, Rémi Carminati, Geoffroy Lerosey, Mathias Fink, Claude Boccara, Igor Carron, Laurent Daudet, and Sylvain Gigan

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Spacecraft Technology

** The contributions to PDR/CDRs and other technical documents related to payload qualification are not listed here **

Phase separator for use of Two-phase flow system in Microgravity and other reduced gravity environments

• Franky De La Garza, Jay Gerber, Sara Guest, Raymond Mendoza, Ramon Rivera, Karen Villatoro, Pamela Withrow, Angelo Bianchini, Randy Doolittle, John Yezak, Ramon Rivera, Igor Carron, Pedro Davalos, "GeoCam - An off-the-shelf Imager for Rapid Response Remote Sensing Monitoring", Workshop on Unmanned Airborne Vehicle Imagery for Domestic Emergency Response & Natural Resource Survey, Lafayette, Louisiana, December 13-14, 2006. [ Examples of maps created using our technique can be found here ]
  
• Hill, C., Boyle, D., Carron, I., Combs, N., Mortari, D., and Pollock, T. "2nd Look. Use of Star Trackers for Space Situational Awareness," Proceedings of the Space Readiness in a World of Surprises Conference, September 7-8, 2006, Maui, Hawaii. 
• John Lee Junkins, Daniele Mortari, Thomas C. Pollock, David Boyle, Igor Carron, Ossama Omar Abdelkhalik, Iohan Ettouati,Charles Hill, and James Cantrell, Feasibility Study and System Concept Development for the Space Situational Awareness Camera System, TEES Final Report, October 5, 2006
  

• I. Horbaczewski, J. Copley, D. Hurtado, I. Carron, P. Davalos, Wireless Coexistence Analysis For Space Applications, World Wireless Conference, San Francisco, CA, 2005

• T. Shah, I. Carron, O. Godard, Online Parameter Estimation applied to mixed- conduction-radaition heat transfer, TFAWS 2004.

• White paper on early StarNav results obtained during STS-107 / Columbia, April 2003

  STS-107 launch
  
  

• Addendum to Early Mission Starnav 1 data from STS-107 ( PDF), August 2003. (During the Columbia-STS-107 mission, we identified several "floaters" around the Orbiter and tried to analyze them. One may note that the debris found floating next to Columbia - according to volume 1 of the CAIB report- 2003-003B was located on January 17, 2003 at about the same time as our "alpha" pictures. Our "beta" series of pictures taken a day earlier - 10 hours into the flight - show a brighter "object" and is the reason for thos addendum). In a public setting, Ted Molczan looked at this issue of this mystery object report made from orbital decay observations. The CAIB called it the FD 2 object ( Appendix E-3 volume III). [ Update Feb 2004: after comparing our data to trajectory analyses performed at NASA/JSC we have come to the conclusion that we did not image FD2 on the second day]

• A. Hensley, U. Abbas, C. Akram, S. Shashikant, I. Carron, Near real time thermal model correlation of an external shuttle payload, TFAWS 2002, Houston, Texas.

  
  
  

• I. Carron, A. Hensley, Shadowing Studies of External Sites on the International Space Station, International Conference On Environmental Systems, July 2001, Orlando, FL, USA. An amusing example of this technique can be found here.

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• Outreach: Advisor to Student led experiments:
• Starnav 1 and Starnav contest
• KC-135, [news]
  
  
  
• GeoCam [news 1, news 2]
• Advisor to the Nanospace 2000 conference in Houston, TX organized by NASA Johnson Space Center
• Flew more than 50 times aboard NASA's KC-135. 
• Involved in some ESA engineering flights ( Test of isolation table for the cold atoms experiment on the 15th campaign, and during the 11th campaign)

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Multi-Layer Systems / Optimization

Microsystems

• V. K. Ignatovich, I. Carron, Multilayers Chracterization Solution Method, Tex-MEMS VI, College Station, TX, 2004.
• I. Carron, V. K. Ignatovich, Algorithm for the preparation of multilayer systems with high critical angle of total reflection, Phys. Rev. A 67, 043610 (2003).
• Organization of Tex-MEMS I and Tex-MEMS VI at Texas A&M University
  
  

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CFD / Multiphase Flow / Thermal Hydraulics

Because even in Space, you always need a plumber.

• R. Williams, I. Carron, D. Bray, C. Kurwitz, and F. Best, Zero-Gravity Test Results For Ultrasonic Sensing Of Air-Liquid Interface in a Vortex Separator, AIP Conf. Proc. 654(1) 239 , 28 Jan 2003, STAIF 2003, Albuquerque, N.M.

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• Velev, O., Srinvasan, S., Appleby, A. J., Carron, I., Real Time Two-Phase Fluid Flow Visualization in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells Using Neutron Radiography, Electrochemical Society Meeting, pp. 232, 1997 Aug, Paris.
• Igor Carron, Frederick Best, Gas-liquid flow regimes: Can we compute them from first principles?, National Heat Transfer Conference, Houston, Texas, August 1996, pp. 92-99, n. 310, vol. 92. AIChE Symposium series.
  
• Igor Carron, Contribution to Gas-Liquid flows, Dissertation, Texas A&M University, December 1995.
  
• Igor Carron, Frederick Best, Gas-liquid annular flow under microgravity conditions: A temporal linear stability study, International Journal of Multiphase Flow, December 1994, v.20, n. 6, pp. 1085-1093
  
• Igor Carron, Frederick Best, Gas-liquid annular flow under microgravity conditions, linear stability as tool for flow regime identification ? American Nuclear Society Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 1994.
  
• Igor Carron, Frederick Best, Microgravity phase separation of rotating fluids in a fixed cylinder, American Nuclear Society Winter Conference Proceedings, San Francisco, California, November 1991.
  
• Acknowledged in a Corrigendum: Instability of a liquid jet surrounded by a viscous gas in a vertical pipe Lin, S.P. ; Ibrahim, E.A. Journal of Fluid Mechanics v 240 Jul. 1992 p 685-686.




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Transport Theory / Radiative Transfer /Multiresolution

• I. Carron, "Dealing with Haze in Texas: Solving the transport equation with spline-wavelets", International Transport Theory Conference, Atlanta, GA, May 1999.
• Use of wavelets in neutron transport theory, Center for Approximation Theory Symposium, College Station, Texas, April 26, 1997.
• Relevant Funded Project: Novel Approaches to Adaptive Angular Approximations in Computational Transport, NEER, DOE.

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Excess Weapons-Plutonium Disposition

• Saxton Reactor Irradiations Presentation at the 7th U.S./Russia Meeting on Light Water Reactors/ U.S./Russia Weapons Plutonium Disposition Study, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge TN, Dec. 6-9, 1999
• Safety Issues Associated with Plutonium Involvement in the Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Theodore A. Parish, V. V. Khromov, Igor Carron Eds., Kluwer Academics Publishers. NATO Science Series. Disarmament Technologies, 1999.
• M. L. Adams, C. A. Beard, V. V. Bolyatko, I. Carron, E. F. Kryuchkov, H. Mahmassani, A. R. McFarland, P. Nelson, J. C. Rodgers, D. M. Roundhil, E. A. Scheikert, "University Contributions to Research in Nuclear Materials Safety", NATO Advanced Research Workshop, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 7-14, 1998.
• Naeem M. Abdurrahman, Georgeta Radulescu, and Igor Carron, "Benchmark Calculations of the Saxton Plutonium Program Critical Experiments" Nuclear Technology, Vol. 127, (3) pp. 315-331, September 1999.
• Pavel V. Tsvetkov, Sridhar Hari, Gabriel Cuevas-Vivas, Igor Carron Data for modeling the Irradiation of the Saxton Reactor Core
• Neutronics Benchmark for the utilization the utilization of mixed oxide fuel, Saxton Plutonium Program
• P.B. Fox, J.J. Lichtenwalter, B.D. Murphy, R.T. Primm III, N. M.N. M. Abdurrahman, I. Carron, G. Radulescu, Neutronic Benchmarks for the Utilization of Mixed-Oxide Fuel: Joint U.S./Russian Progress Report for Fiscal Year 1997, Volume 4, Part 2—Saxton Plutonium Program Critical Experiments, ORNL/SUB/00-XSZ175V-2, September 2000.
  
  
  
  
  
• Organizer of the NATO Nuclear Materials Safety Management Workshop in Amarillo and the NATO sponsored Volga'97 meeting. 
• Organizer of several technical meetings between the U.S. and Russia on issues related to the disposition of excess-weapons grade plutonium.
  

"Richard Hamming’s three questions for new hires at Bell Labs:
1- What are you working on?
2- What’s the most important open problem in your area?
3- Why aren’t they the same? (Ouch!)

“You and Your Research” --- Richard Hamming (1986) 

 

“Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If it’s original, you’ll have to ram it down their throats”  

Howard Aiken