Employment History

• Since Dec. 2003: Senior Research Engineer at Orange Labs, Lannion, France
• 2000 – 2003: Research Engineer at VoiceAge Corp., Montreal, QC, Canada
• 1997- 2003: Successive positions† at University of Sherbrooke, Research Group on Speech and Audio Processing, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
  † summer intern, "coopérant", Master and Ph.D. student, research engineer
• July 1996: Summer intern at Telecom Bretagne, Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence, Brest, France
• Feb. 1996: Contractor at GER Telecom, Brest, France

Professional Education

• 2003: Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
• 2000: M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
• 1997: M.Eng. in Telecommunications Engineering, Telecom Bretagne, France
• 1992-94: Intensive Maths/Physics preparation for selective entrance in French national engineering institutes, Lycée Descartes, Tours, France

Contributions to Speech/Audio Coding Standards

• 3GPP AMR-WB+: Extended Adaptive Multi-Rate - Wideband (AMR-WB+) codec
• ITU-T G.729.1: An 8-32 kbit/s scalable wideband coder bitstream interoperable with G.729 (ex-G.729EV)
• ITU-T G.722 App. IV: A low-complexity algorithm for packet loss concealment with G.722 (ex-G.722PLC)
• ITU-T G.711.1: Wideband embedded extension for G.711 pulse code modulation (ex-G.711WB)
• ITU-T G.718: Frame error robust narrowband and wideband embedded variable bit-rate coding of speech and audio from 8-32 kbit/s (ex-EV-VBR)
• ITU-T G.722B and G.711.1D: Superwideband embedded extension of G.722
• ITU-T G.722D and G.711.1F: Stereo embedded extension of G.722
• 3GPP EVS: Codec for Enhanced Voice Services