Laurent Alquier, Ph.D

Summary of experience

• Over nine years of experience in Pharmaceutical and IT Industry in the areas of Data Manipulation, Data Analysis and Knowledge Management
• Strong interest in Information Visualization techniques, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery tools.
• Extensive experience in the Analysis, Design, Development and Testing of client / server and web based applications, User Interface Design and Application Usability concepts.

2004- Present: Project Lead, IM / Research and Early Development

Johnson and Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development, L.L.C.

Designed, directed and delivered solutions to significantly improve the support of key Drug Discovery systems, such as Compound Logistics.
Managed deployment of several releases of the Compound Ordering and Tracking System (COATS), a central compound inventory system used by scientists globally to request and deliver compounds.
Developed knowIT, a Knowledge Base to improve asset tracking and provide better support for Research and Early Development systems with the use of semantic web technologies.
Designed the Health & Safety Laboratory Inspection database, a complex online survey tool used to track compliance of laboratories with safety standards. Received a J&J OPAL Award for designing and implementing the Health & Safety Laboratory Inspection database (2004).
Designed and implemented a Project Portfolio Tracking system to standardize project review and delivery processes in GIS Drug Discovery.
Coordinated activities of a team of developers and DBAs across multiple projects

2002-2003: Project Manager, Drug Discovery Solutions Center

Johnson and Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development, L.L.C.

2001: Consultant, GIS Drug Discovery

Johnson and Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development, L.L.C.

1999-2000 : Postdoctoral Fellow, GIS IT R&D

Johnson and Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development, L.L.C.

1994-1998: Ph.D. thesis - Recursive Perceptual Grouping of objects for 3D Scene Description

LGI2P Institute, Nimes, France

1994-1998: Research Assistant

LGI2P Institute, Nimes, France

1994-1998: Web Server Administrator

LGI2P Institute, Nimes, France

1993: Internship - 3D Visualization of Flight: Simulations and Real Data.

Laboratoire ONERA-Ecole de l'air. Base aerienne 701, Salon de Provence, France

1994-1998: "Thèse de doctorat" (Ph.D.)

Recursive Perceptual Grouping of objects for 3D Scene Description
Computer Science Department.
L.G.I2.P (Laboratory of Computer Science Engineering)
Nîmes, France.

1993-1994: "D.E.A" ( Advanced Studies Diploma in Complex Discrete Systems and Artificial Intelligence )

Perceptual Grouping applied to Road Extraction from Satellite Pictures.
University of Montpellier, FRANCE

1991-1994: Computer Science, Engineer

(equivalent to M.S in Computer and Electrical Engineering ) at the
" Ecole pour les Etudes et la Recherche en Informatique et
Electronique (EERIE)" (School of Engineering and Research in
Computer Science and Electronics) in Nîmes, FRANCE.

Member of the Association of Computer Machinery (ACM)

SIGGRAPH interest group.

knowIT, a Semantic Informatics Knowledge Management System

The 5th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
WikiSym 2009, Orlando, Florida (October 25-27, 2009)

Experience report
To be published

Representation of Linear Structures Using Perceptual Grouping.

First IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision,
Santa Barbara, California (June 26, 1998)

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Recursive Perceptual Grouping for 3d Object Reconstruction from 2d Scenes

10th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis,
SCIA 97, Lappeenranta, Finland (June 09-11, 1997)

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Segmentation of Thin Networks Using Perceptual Organization with Active Contour Functions

PHOTONICS CHINA 96, Beijing, China (November 02-07, 1996)

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Perceptual Grouping and Active Contour Functions for the Extraction of Roads in Satellite Pictures

III European Symposium on Satellite Remote Sensing
EUROPTO 96, Taormina, Sicilia (September 23 - 27, 1996)

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A Novel Similarity Searching System Based On The Fusion of 2D Fragments Of Different Sizes

Xin Chen, Laurent Alquier, and Charles H. Reynolds,
Computer Assisted Drug Discovery, R. W. Johnson Pharmaceutical
Research Institute, Raritan, NJ 08869, xchen3@prius.jnj.com

223rd ACS National Meeting
Orlando, FL
April 7 - 11, 2002

Analyse et representation de scenes complexes par groupement perceptuel

Analysis and Representation of Complex Scenes using Perceptual Organization
PhD. Thesis, University of Montpellier II, Nimes France

Technical Report 1997 (english)
Rapport Technique 1997 (francais)
Rapport Technique 1996 (francais)

Texte integral (francais)

Introduction (francais)
I. Perception de structures curvilignes en vision par ordinateur
I.1 Vision naturelle et artificielle (francais)
I.2 Analyse et interpretation des scenes de contours (francais)
I.3 Groupement perceptuel en vision par ordinateur (francais)
II. Analyse de scenes de contours par groupement perceptuel
II.1 Saillance structurelle et groupements elementaires (francais)
II.2 Elements de representation et groupements intermediaires (francais)
II.3 Groupements de haut niveau et mise en correspondance (francais)
Conclusion et Annexes (francais)
Bibliographie (francais)

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Powerpoint Slides (english)

Perceptual Organization of Thin Networks with Active Contour Functions Applied to Medical and Aerial Images

13th Int'l Conference on Pattern Recognition
ICPR 96, Technical University of Vienna , Austria, (August 25 - 30, 1996)
session A82.3

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Freelance columnist

Wrote articles and reviews for online publications.

3D Graphics - Illustration

- Online Portfolio
- Personal Gallery

Website design

2005- mariedesloups.com
2004- Alumni directory
2003- koumako.com
2001- Personal website
1995-1997- Aux frontieres d'URL (Award winning Fan site for The X-Files - now defunct)
1994-1998- EERIE web (engineering school official website - now defunct)

Posters - Covers Design

- Gallery of commissioned graphics designs .

Article published in SciFi magazine

Je lutte pour rester éveillé..., in PARALLÈLES n° 5, 1997

Published short stories

Cloudbusting in UPNT n° 4, 1996