Denis Gingras

2000 to now Full Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Université de Sherbrooke, (Quebec), Canada 2000- 01/2008 Director General, Intelligent Materials and Systems Institute, Université de Sherbrooke, (Quebec), Canada 1999 Invited professor, INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique). Sophia-Antipolis, France 1997 - 1999 Director, Digital and Optical Systems Dept., INO, Sainte-Foy (Quebec) Canada 1995 - 1997 Director, Information Processing Sector, INO, Ste-Foy (Quebec) Canada 1993 - 1995 Head, Information Processing Sector, INO, Ste-Foy (Quebec) Canada 1990 - 1992 Researcher, National Optics Institute (INO), Sainte-Foy (Quebec) Canada 1989 - 1990 Researcher, Communications Research Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan (Fellow STA) 1984 - 1988 Assistant Professor, Elektrotechnik, Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany 1984 Teacher, Electrotechnics Department, Limoilou College, Quebec City, Canada 1982 Engineer, Northern Telecom Canada Ltd., Montreal, Canada 1981 - 1982 Engineer, Breton Banville et Associates, Beloeil (Quebec) Canada 1981 Analyst, Computing Services, University of Alberta, Edmonton (Alberta) Canada 1980 Assistant Engineer, BOSCH GmbH, Electrical Vehicles Department, Stuttgart, Germany. Specialties: 1- algorithms and computer architectures design, database, scientific software expert systems, computer graphics, artificial intelligence, Web - multimedia tools, 2-Information signal and image processing theory,modeling, classification, statistics, neural networks, estimation, detection 2D and 3D machine vision, pattern recognition. 3- Optical Instrumentation and computing, spectrometry, interferometry, optical correlators, holography, speckle imaging, image restoration