Biographie : Christopher Pal, PhD

 

Christopher Pal est professeur adjoint dans le département de génie informatique et génie logiciel  à l’École Polytechnique de Montréal. Ses intérêts de recherche incluent : la vision par ordinateur, la reconnaissance de formes et l'apprentissage automatique avec des applications à l'infographie, l'analyse du langage naturel et l'exploration des données.

 

Il était auparavant professeur adjoint en informatique à l'Université de Rochester. Il a également occupé des postes à l'Université du Massachusetts, de l'Université de Toronto, « Interval Research » et « the Interactive Visual Media Group of Microsoft Research ». Il a obtenu son doctorat de l'Université de Waterloo au Canada.

 

 

Biography: Christopher Pal,  PhD

 

Dr. Chris Pal is an assistant professor in the department of computer and software engineering at the École Polytechnique of Montreal. Prior to arriving in Montreal, he was a professor in the department of Computer Science at the University of Rochester. He has been a research scientist with the University of Massachusetts and has also been affiliated with Microsoft Research's Interactive Visual Media Group. His research contributions led to the filing of three patents on image processing, computer vision and interactive multimedia. He also worked closely with the Windows Media product group.

 

He earned his M. Math and PhD from the University of Waterloo in Canada. During his masters research he developed methods for automated cartography and the analysis of high resolution digital aerial photography. He was also involved with a number of software engineering projects developing spatial databases for managing environmental information. His PhD research led to contributions applying probability models and optimization techniques to image, video and signal processing.

 

During his PhD studies Chris was also a research assistant at the University of Toronto in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. At Toronto he collaborated closely with the Banting and Best Department of Medical Research. He preformed research on image processing and statistical methods for the analysis of large scale genomics and computational molecular biology experiments using DNA microarrays. Prior to his graduate studies Chris was with the multimedia research company Interval in Palo Alto, CA (Silicon Valley). As a result of his research at Interval he was awarded a patent on audio signal processing.