Olivier Marchand
Computer Science Department
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24060

email: marchand@csgrad.cs.vt.edu

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Local Address
#F5, 304 Apt Heights Dr
Blacksburg, VA 24060
(540)961-1440

Education:

• M.S. in Computer Science, degree expected May 1996.
  Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.
• B.S. in Computer Science, 1996.
  University of Technology of Compiegne, Compiegne, France.
  (Last year completed as an exchange student at Virginia Tech.)

Computer Skills:

Hardware-Operating Systems         Languages/Softwares
DEC Station/UNIX                   C             Pascal
VAX/VMS                            LISP          68000 Assembly
IBM PC/MS-DOS                      C++           Matlab
Sun Station                        Windows       Basic 

Other Skills:

• French (native language)
• Fluent in English, basic knowledge of German

Work Experience:

• Training period on neural networks at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden (from September 93 to February 94).
  Creation of an interface (written in C++ for Windows) to train and use neural networks. This work was part of an educational program and a larger project called REMAPS (Real-time Embedded Modular mAssively Parallel Systems) which took place at Chalmers, in cooperation with SAAB.
  
  
• Graduate Research Assistant, Virginia Tech, since July 1995.
  Research Topic: Problem Solving Environments and Object Oriented Programming.
  
  
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, Virginia Tech, August 1994 - July 1995
  (Pascal, Fortran, Numerical Methods, Automata and Formal Languages, Introduction to Computer Science).
  
  
• Computer Lab Consultant, Virginia Tech, 1994-1995.
  
  
• Tutor, Mathematics, 1991-1994.

Relevant Classes:

• Numerical Methods and Analysis
• Model and Simulation
• Discrete Mathematics
• Statistics
• Operational Research and Graph Theory
• Models of Computation
• Models and Analysis
• Theory of Algorithms
• Operating Systems
• Research Methods in Computer Science
• Network communities; Community networks
• Advanced Topics in Mathematical Software: Software for High Performance Scientific Computing
• Scientific Visual Data Analysis and Multimedia

Activities:

• Vice-President of the Council of International Student Organizations, Virginia Tech, 1995-1996.

Interests:

• Tennis, Racquetball, Ski, Basket-Ball (used to be a coach in France)
• Music
• Traveling

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