Research activities
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique / Nov 2010 - Present
Decision systems, fuzzy logic, expert systems, geographical information systems.
PhD student
Naval Academy Research Institute / 2006 - 2010
Early models of Geographical Information Systems have been deeply influenced by quantitative models and geometric representations of space. Despite the interest of these approaches for cartographical applications, they do not completely reflect the way a human being perceives and describes his environment since he preferably stores and processes qualitative information. The study of cognitive processes has raised fundamental issues such as how spatial knowledge is acquired by human beings, and to which degree the language people manipulate affects their ability to interact effectively with spatial information. First results have particularly reported that the modelling of space is a cognitive activity that still requires appropriate spatial representations.
We have provided a structural representation of qualitative descriptions of space [LeYaouanc2010a]. The model illustrates the semantic and spatial constructs that emerge from these descriptions. The model is extended by a salience-based approach that reflects the particularities of the entities identified, such as their linguistic properties and their spatial characteristics [LeYaouanc2009]. Finally, a geopositioning approach is provided from the interpretation of the structural representation [LeYaouanc2010b].
Education
Naval Academy Research Institute
PhD Computer Science / 2006 - 2010
PhD advisors : Pr Dr Christophe CLARAMUNT and Dr Eric SAUX.
University of Brest, France
2005 - 2006
Post-graduate's degree (NVQ Level 5) in Computer Sciences - Specialisation Models and methods for intelligent systems.
University of Brest, France
2002 - 2005
Master's degree in Computer Science.
Brest, France
1999 - 2002
Science Prep School.
Lannion, France
1999 - 2000
Highschool graduate: major in technology.
Teaching
Ecole navale
2006 - 2010
Lecturer at the French Naval Academy.
Object-oriented programming, Networks, GIS, Knowledge management and ontologies, Distributed systems, Algorithmics, Office computer productivity.
IT skills
Coding: Java, C#, MySQL, PHP.
Softwares: Visual Studio, Eclipse, ArcGIS, GvSIG.
Other activities
2011
Reviewer for the workshop An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding and Processing Sketch Maps of the Conference on Spatial Information Therory COSIT'2011
2008 - 2009
Member of the local comitee of the Conference on Spatial Information Therory COSIT'09.
Webmaster of the website of the conference.
2008 - Present
Reviewer for the MajecSTIC conference (Manifestation des Jeunes Chercheurs en Sciences et Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication)