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curriculum and skills

¶   Vita   ||   Curriculm vitae and publications   ¶   Education   ||   Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 2023   ||   PostDoc Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2003–2005   ||   Ph.D. Art History and History, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, France, 2003   ||   M.A. Linguistics, University of Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France, 1995   ||   B.A. Middle Eastern Studies, University of Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France, 1993   ||   Admission, Telecommunications Engineering, “Traian Vuia” Polytechnic University, Timisoara, Romania   ||   Baccalaureate in Mathematics & Physics, “Nikolaus Lenau” High School of German language, Timisoara, Romania   ¶   Computer science skill areas   ||   image processing · visualization · handwriting and document analysis · geographical information systems · text analysis · statistics · data quality · data fusion · human visual perception · user interfaces · evaluation · robotics · web front- and back-end   ¶   Humanities skill areas   ||   paleography · book history · science and technology studies · typography · art history · history · linguistics · middle eastern studies   ¶   Languages   ||   Artifical: Matlab · Java · Python · JavaScript · D3 · Processing · XML · HTML · CSS · PHP · MySQL · Unix shell · Basic · MOS 6510 assembler   ||   Natural: Spoken/Written: Arabic (classical · Egyptian & Syrian dialects), English · French · German · Persian · Romanian   |   Notions: Hebrew · Italian · Japanese · Turkish; Ancient Near Eastern & Semitic languages and scripts (e.g., Akkadian · Egyptian · Pre-Islamic Arabic · South Arabic)   ¶   Design skills   ||   typography · graphic design · fonts · calligraphy   ¶   Other   ||   project management · teaching · editing · creative writing

software

¶   Matlab   ||   Non-parametric ranking and rating functions  ·  Kernel smoothing density estimate for circular data  ·  Frequency Domain Image Auto Filtering  ·  Local shape outline orientation descriptor  ·  Alphonse:Rex - Handwriting and Print Expertise  ·  Matlab colormaps as seen by color-blind users   ¶   Rex   ||   Browser for written document retrieval   ¶   Hierax   ||   Software for the legibility enhancement of papyri   ¶   AD751   ||   Software for measuring the densities of laid lines in papers   ¶   BlueNile   ||   FFT image filtering software   ¶   Kabikadj   ||   Database software for cataloguing manuscripts

studies

¶   Document analysis and visualization   ||   The Structural Information Potential and Its Application to Document Triage   ||   Document Towers: A MATLAB software implementing a three-dimensional architectural paradigm for the visual exploration of digital documents and libraries   ||   Improving the Quality Control and Exploration of Digital Documents Using Visualization and Serendipity   ||   Applications of the Document Towers method of representing document structures; Annex: Dreams, Architecture, and Information Systems: A brief review of the utility of document exploration, visualization, and metaphors   ¶   Legibility   ||   Legibility Enhancement of Papyri Using Color Processing and Visual Illusions: A Case Study in Critical Vision  ¶   Writing history and expertise   ||   Expert Bytes: Computer Expertise in Forensic Documents – Players, Needs, Resources, and Pitfalls | Addenda   ||   The calligraphic phenomenon in Mamluk times (Egypt, Syria, 13th–16th centuries)   ||   Of Letter Frequencies and Their Influence on Arabic Calligraphy   ||   Cuckoos among Your Data: A Quality Control Method to Retrieve Mislabeled Writer Identities from Handwriting Datasets   ||   Writer Retrieval: Exploration of a Novel Biometric Scenario Using Perceptual Features Derived from Script Orientation   ||   Forensic vs. Computing writing features as seen by Rex, the intuitive document retriever Rex Online, and conference poster   ||   futility subverted. The instrumentalization of calligraphy in Middle Eastern politics   ||   Paleographers and Computer Scientists   ||   Allographic biometrics and behavior synthesis | Les allographes comme mesure biométrique et la synthèse du comportement   ||   Subjective realities of a 10th century paleographer   ||   Inimitable handwriting. Graphical specificities of the Qur’ân   ¶   Paper and ink   ||   Retroinking. Finding the direction of writing from the intensity of ink   ||   Assessing paper origin and quality through large-scale laid lines density measurements | Image analysis and its application to the history of paper. Large-scale measurement of laid lines densities   ¶   Art History   ||   Give me your gaze, I will offer you Immortality. Apologue for a sociology of the gaze   ||   A Devil in the Gaze. Depicting social non-conformism in the Maqâmât al-Harîrî   ||   A Japanese Gaze. Using space to represent time and meaning in Japanese animation   ||   Book Reviews   ¶   Cultural studies   ||   5170 steps until God. Muslim traditions concerning the Tower of Babel and the confusion of languages   ¶   Linguistics   ||   Lexical Families in the “Lisân al-‘arab” & Semantic Unity of <gh**> roots | The sounds of meaning – after “Maqâyîs al-lugha”, a dictionary by Ibn Fâris   ¶   Geography   ||   Avatars in Real Life: Placename homonymy in Iran   ||   7385 Swabian bulls and 2 Viennese mermaids: Interpreting the Bernstein cartography of papers and watermarks   ||   Beautiful Japan: Visualizing subjective landscape perceptions   ||   The Score of Death: Plague Epidemics in Europe 1347–1600

projects

¶   Geographical Information Systems   ||   Waqwaq. Services for mapping cultural geographies   ¶   Cultural Heritage   ||   Manuscript Heritage. Digital cataloguing and reproduction of manuscripts collections. Iranian manuscripts series ; Extra resources

fiction

art