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.
Interests
I am interested in data: how to intelligently acquire them all the way to making sense of them.
With the ever abundant data produced by a variety of means, problems faced by both researchers, business leaders and decision makers alike are:
How can one gather large amount of data efficiently ?
How does one make sense of them ? and
How can one act on them ?
Some of the technical issues underlying this problematic are discussed on my blog: Nuit Blanche. The blog's readership consists of a wide cross section of specialists from academia, industry and government in areas ranging from sensor/hardware design to Machine Learning.
Nuit Blanche has had over three million views since 2010.
You will find below a list of reports, papers and presentations I have written as well as well outreach activities. Only those reports and papers that are not proprietary are listed on this page.
- Publications:
- Imaging With Nature: Compressive Imaging Using a Multiply Scattering Medium by Antoine Liutkus, David Martina, Sébastien Popoff, Gilles Chardon,Ori Katz, Geoffroy Lerosey, Sylvain Gigan,Laurent Daudet, Igor Carron,
- Scientific Reports
- 4,
- Article number:
- 5552
- doi:10.1038/srep05552
Project page: https://sites.google.com/site/imagingwithnature/ - Preprints on ArXiv
- Open Peer Review: Profile on Publons
- 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)
- 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
- Outreach
- It's not as random as it seems, Paris Context Aware Meetup #1, July 17th, 2014
- Making Sense of IoT data, Internet of Things Paris Meetup #5, March 19th, 2014
- Presentation of the Machine Learning Meetup #7
- Presentation of the Machine Learning Meetup #6 (video)
- Presentation 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/Technical Pages:
- The following pages feature highly technical information of interest to experts:
- Academic/Technical Blog:
- Nuit Blanche : a technical blog with over three millions views since 2010.
- Some readers' testimonials.
- Nuit Blanche has also been mentioned so far in:
- Outreach magazines:
- Publications:
- Imaging With Nature: Compressive Imaging Using a Multiply Scattering Medium by Antoine Liutkus, David Martina, Sébastien Popoff, Gilles Chardon,Ori Katz, Geoffroy Lerosey, Sylvain Gigan,Laurent Daudet, Igor Carron,
- Scientific Reports
- 4,
- Article number:
- 5552
- doi:10.1038/srep05552
Project page: https://sites.google.com/site/imagingwithnature/ - Preprints on ArXiv
- Open Peer Review: Profile on Publons
- 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)
- 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
- Outreach
- It's not as random as it seems, Paris Context Aware Meetup #1, July 17th, 2014
- Making Sense of IoT data, Internet of Things Paris Meetup #5, March 19th, 2014
- Presentation of the Machine Learning Meetup #7
- Presentation of the Machine Learning Meetup #6 (video)
- Presentation 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/Technical Pages:
- The following pages feature highly technical information of interest to experts:
- Academic/Technical Blog:
- Nuit Blanche : a technical blog with over three millions views since 2010.
- Some readers' testimonials.
- Nuit Blanche has also been mentioned so far in:
- Outreach magazines:
- Scientific publications:
- "Optical and Digital Image Processing - Fundamentals and Application, Chapter "Compressed Sensing: When sparsity meets sampling"
- 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 1500 members)
- Paris GraphLab Users
- LinkedIn groups curation:
- Compressive Sensing Group (more than 3120 members) ,
- Advanced Matrix Factorization group (more than 990 members)
- Paris Machine Learning Group (more than 570 members)
- The Calibration Club,
- Gaussian Belief Propagation: Theory and Practice,
- Robust Mathematical Modeling
- Reddit group curation:
- Compressive Sensing (more than 360 members)
- Google+ group curation:
- Compressive Sensing, RandNLA, Matrix Factorization: Defeating the Data Tsunami, one algorithm at a time (more than 1250 members)
- Scientific publications:
- "Optical and Digital Image Processing - Fundamentals and Application, Chapter "Compressed Sensing: When sparsity meets sampling"
- 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 1500 members)
- Paris GraphLab Users
- LinkedIn groups curation:
- Compressive Sensing Group (more than 3120 members) ,
- Advanced Matrix Factorization group (more than 990 members)
- Paris Machine Learning Group (more than 570 members)
- The Calibration Club,
- Gaussian Belief Propagation: Theory and Practice,
- Robust Mathematical Modeling
- Reddit group curation:
- Compressive Sensing (more than 360 members)
- Google+ group curation:
- Compressive Sensing, RandNLA, Matrix Factorization: Defeating the Data Tsunami, one algorithm at a time (more than 1250 members)
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Spacecraft Technology
** Important **Contributions to Preliminary Design Review and Critical Design Reviews as well as other technical documents related to Space Payload Qualification are not listed here.
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Spacecraft Technology
** Important **
Contributions to Preliminary Design Review and Critical Design Reviews as well as other technical documents related to Space Payload Qualification are not listed here.
- 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
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I. Horbaczewski, J. Copley, D. Hurtado, I. Carron, P. Davalos, Wireless Coexistence Analysis For Space Applications, World Wireless Conference, San Francisco, CA, 2005
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White paper on early StarNav results obtained during STS-107 / Columbia, April 2003
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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 - shows 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]
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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.
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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.
- Outreach: Advisor to Student led experiments:
- Starnav 1 and Starnav contest
- GeoCam [PR 1, PR 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 and a few times aboard CNES's Zero-G caravelle.
- Involved in some ESA engineering flights ( Test of isolation table for the cold atoms experiment on the 15th campaign, and during the 11th campaign)
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).
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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.
- 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.
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.
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
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- 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”
