To conclude my M.Sc., I am currently doing an internship

I am working in the BIG/LIB research team, at EPFL (in Lausanne, Switzerland), on convolution operators and steerable operators (amongst other topics)!

• Theme:	theoritical functional analysis, applied to inverse optimization problem, mainly appearing in medical imaging.

• Duration:	april 2016 to August 2016 (research internship in applied mathematics);

• Locations:	Lausanne, Switzerland.

Contact address

• First name:	Besson

• Last name:	Lilian

• Email:	lilian[.]besson[@]ens-cachan[.]fr (remove the brackets)

• Postal address

  Mr Lilian Besson,
  ENS Cachan,
  Dept. de Mathématiques,
  41, avenue du Président Wilson,
  94230 - Cachan,
  France
  

Extra information about me

• Date of Birth:	January 12th, 1993. Age : 23.

• Current Status:	Student at ÉNS de Cachan, in 5th year. Studying Mathematics and Computer Science.

• Webpages:	This website; my Bitbucket account lbesson, and my GitHub account naereen, which host my programming project;

Spoken Languages

• French:	native speaker;

• English:	fluent, speaking and writing, usual and scientific. TOEIC got in April 2012, with the mark 900/990;

• Spanish:	beginner, speaking and writing, usual only;

• Japanese:	beginner from Sept. 2013 to March 2015, hiragana only;

Programming Languages

• Advanced:	Python (2.7) (object oriented and scripting), Texas Instrument-BASICs (embedded languages for graphical calculator), GNU Bash (scripting), OCaml (functional language), LaTeX & reStructuredText (for slides, web pages and articles).

• Intermediate:	BASIC, Matlab & GNU/Octave and C (sequential computation), nVidia CUDA (parallel computation on GPU);

• Basic:	Maple, HTML, Assembly (Intel x86, MIPS, TI-83+), XML, Javascript;

Computer skills

• Operating Systems:
  	Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Android, GNU/Linux (with Ångström, Ubuntu, Debian and OpenWRT);

• Text processing:
  	LyX, LaTeX & LaTeX Beamer, Open Office & Libre Office & Microsoft Word, Markdown & reStructuredText;

• Text editors:	Expert with gEdit & GNU Nano (Linux, Windows), Jota Text Editor (Android);

• Documentation generators:
  	OCamlDoc for OCaml, PyDOC & Sphinx for Python;

• System administration:
  	experience with net hardware and software, and net monitoring with GNU/Linux.

Miscellaneous

• Personal skills:

  • good theoretical and practical background in maths, computer science, physics and chemistry;
  • problem-solving and communication skills;
  • good understanding and use of the actual web and generic technologies;
  • eager to learn and develop new skills;
  • passionate about new technologies;

• International experience:
  	some trips in Iceland, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Italy, UK, Ireland, USA, Canada, Switzerland, Luxembourg (since 2004);

• Other experiences:

  • Theater and clown lessons, during 6 years (2003-2009);
  • Passionnate player of Magic The Gathering, during 5 years (2004-2009). Many national tournaments, a few internations competition (Sweden, Spain, Italy). Department champion for 3 years (in Hautes-Alpes, 05, France).

• Entertainment:	painting, role playing games, theater, video games, cinema, programming, fantasy literature and poetry;

• Sports:	climbing, trek, mountain bike, kick-scooter, swimming, hitchhiking, badminton.

Reference contacts (if needed)

Academic Education

Below there is a precise description of what I studied, year by year, from my Baccalaureat in 2009.

2015-2016: second second year Msc (Master)

• I am studying for the MVA master program (at ENS de Cachan), in applied Maths, mainly in machine learning and numerical optimization.
• I am also teaching regularly in Maths. and in Computer Science in a prep' school for national competitive exams for French Engineering Schools ("Grandes Écoles"), at "Lycée Lakanal" in Sceaux (near Paris).

2014-2015: teaching for one year in India

Assistant professor at the (very new) Mahindra École Centrale (at Hyderabad, in India). Full time teaching faculty, in Mathematics (MA101 course in the first semester August-December 2014, MA102 course in the second semester January-May 2015) and in Computer Science (cours CS101 during the second semester).

2012-2013: First-year MSc (Master)

• Mathematics MSc (Sept. 2012 to August 2013)

  • Universities:	ÉNS de Cachan & Paris Diderot University (Paris VII);

  • Domains:	Complex analysis, functional analysis and numerical optimization, exterior calculus, Partial Differential Equations approximation.

  • Mark:	14.4/20, magna cum laude.

• Computer Science MSc (Sept. 2012 to August 2013)

  • Universities:	ÉNS de Cachan & Paris Diderot University (Paris VII);

  • Domains:	Functional programming and typing, cryptographic protocols, compilation, Markov chains and random algorithms, net programming, maching learning, logic.

  • Mark:	15.25/20, magna cum laude.

• Title:	"Towards modularity for planning and robot programs verification";

• Supervisor:	Jules Villard, and Peter O'Hearn;

• Where:	with PPLV Team, at UCL in London;

• Description:	I worked on Artificial Intelligence, verification and mainly the need for modularity for these domains. My report (in English): rapportM1Info13.pdf, and my slides (in French): slidesM1Info13.pdf.

2011-2012 : third-year BSc (Bachelor, licence in French)

• Mathematics BSc (Sept. 2011 to July 2012)

  • Universities:	ÉNS de Cachan & Paris Diderot University (Paris VII);

  • Domains:	Functional analysis, integration, algebras, arithmetic, partial and ordinary differential equations, topology, differential geometry;

  • Mark:	14.27/20, magna cum laude.

• Computer Science BSc (Sept. 2011 to July 2012)

  • Universities:	ÉNS de Cachan & Paris Diderot University (Paris VII);

  • Domains:	Logic, semantics, cryptography, algorithmic, graph theory, lambda calculus, compilation, parallel computation, formal calculus;

  • Mark:	14.7/20, magna cum laude.

• TOEIC (English test) got with the mark 900/990.

• Title:	"Finite volumes method on nVidia graphic cards, applied to solve the compressible Euler problem";

• Supervisor:	Pr. Florian de Vuyst;

• Description:	Math internship at CMLA (Centre des mathématiques et de leurs applications, ÉNS de Cachan math lab research), 5 months (February 2012 to July 2012).

• Abstract:	General study of numerical solvers for differential equations and partial differential equations. Liner solver, first and second order, 1 2 and 3 D, with the VFFC method. Numerical simulation, sequential using :C: and VTK, and parallel using nVidia CUDA. Interactive 2D simulation with openGL.

• Published:	On my web page, the bachelor thesis, in French.

2010-2011 : second-year BSc & Classe Préparatoire

Classe Préparatoire, second year (MP*)

• Universities:	Lycée Thiers (Marseille, France) & Aix-Marseille 1 University;

• Studying:	maths, chemistry, physics, engineering, computer science, philosophy, literature, English and Spanish;

• Mark:	17.9/20;

• Rank:	1/33.

1. Accepted and matriculed at École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (July 2011)

   • Rank:	99/1200;

   • Matriculated:	at the maths department, student with the special French status élève-normalien.

2. Accepted at École Polytechnique (July 2011)

   • Rank:	81/1900;

   • Acceptance refused.

3. Accepted at École Centrale (Paris, Lyon, Marseille), Supélec, Supoptique (July 2011)

   • Rank:	6/2700;

   • Acceptance refused.

4. Accepted at École Télécom Sud-Paris (July 2011)

   • Rank:	2/890;

   • Acceptance refused.

2009-2010 : first-year BSc & Classe Préparatoire

Classe Préparatoire, first year (MPSI)

• Universities:	Lycée Thiers (Marseille, France) & Aix-Marseille 1 University;

• Studying:	maths, chemistry, physics, engineering, computer science, philosophy, literature, English and Spanish;

• Mark:	17.3/20;

• Rank:	1/46.

• Accepted at École des Mines (at Alès) (July 2011)

  • Rank:	14/4000;

  • Mark:	18.2/20;

  • Acceptance refused.

Other diplomas

• Driving license, got in Briançon (February 2012).

• High-school certificate (French Baccalaureat) (June 2009) (as precised here on bankexam.fr)

  • University:	Lycée d'Altitude (Briançon);

  • Mark:	15.7/20, magna cum laude;

  • Options:	Scientific high-school certificate with specialization in mathematics, and intensive theater.

Other research experience

• MPRI Bomberman : a multiplayer Bomberman game with formal semantics and a open protocole (MPRI lecture 1-21.). On-line here on Bitbucket lbesson/mpri-bomberman, or on thise web site publis/Bomberman.
• ANSI Colors : a Python 2 script and module to use colours in a terminal (now also available on Python 3, cf. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ansicolortags). Available for download on PyPi (about 3000 download by now, see here download stats for May 2013). Or also here on Bitbucket lbesson/ansi-colors, or on thise web site publis/ansi-colors/.
• French translation of the website bitbucket.org (March 2013), with Transifex.
• Kaggle Titanic ML project, here lbesson/projet-kaggle or publis/kaggle.

• A small Tetravex game (with an automatic puzzle resolution), in OCaml, involving graphical programming and precise algorithmic work (second semester project);
• mocaml: an enhanced toplevel and an experimental IDE for OCaml, written in Bash and OCaml (for Windows and GNU/Linux). This project is dead now;
• C--: compiler from a subset of C to x86 assembler, with formal semantics, written in OCaml (first semester project);
• For Android apps :
  • Syntactical coloration and collaboration for Jota Text Editor (about 8 millions downloads!);
  • Collaboration with Romain Vernoux for his OCaml Toplevel on Android app, a non-official project for the OCaml language, approved by the French institute in charge of the project (INRIA).

• Title:	"Tropical algebras and linear systems applied to mobility problems";

• Supervisors:	Agnès Borel (Lycée Thiers) & Pr. Glenn Merlet (Aix-Marseille I University);

• Abstract:	general study of tropical algebras, time processes (Petri nets and Markov chains). Dikjstra algorithm, tropical and time dependant implemented with Maple 12.

• Title:	"The Chess board, a dynamic surface";

• Supervisors:	Dr. Yassine Dakhli (Lycée Thiers);

• Abstract:	implementation of a two players chess game, and of a simple AI (quite inefficient, naive and slow, but functional). About 7000 lines of TI-Basic code, one of the biggest project for TI-82 calculator (an old one : 6 MHz, 28 Ko of RAM!).