Resume

Name		Francesc PINYOL i MARGALEF
Birth		8th August 1969, Reus, Catalonia, Spain
Sex		Male
E-mail		francesc.pinyol@terra.es

Educational Background

4/1993-10/1998	Ph.D. thesis in the Signal Processing Laboratory (LTS) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland: "Three-dimensional Reconstruction of DNA Molecules from Stereoscopic Noisy Images". Spanish title: 4/2002.
9/1987-3/1993	Graduation in Telecommunication Engineering (communications), from ETSETB, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona.

Projects

3/2006-	Centre of Digital Television, Enginyeria i Arquitectura La Salle, Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona Scientific advisor.
12/2002-3/2006	Inspecta, Bellaterra - Cerdanyola del Vallès
4/2000-5/2002	R&D department. Intelligent Software Components (iSOCO). Sant Cugat del Vallès. WAP application. Integration with existing Delphi application. WML, Delphi, Java, Corba. Writing of documentation about WAP gateways. Electronic commerce application (WWW shop). Back-office for products catalogue database. Delphi GUI and database integration. Personal content (obtained from WWW) aggregation. Java programming (servlets) at HTTP protocol (SSL) level. Automatic personal authentication in sites. Information retrieval from obtained HTML code. Technical solutions and market possibilities exploration for interactive digital television applications. Writing of an internal presentation. Innovation department. Simulation techniques (special attention in those based on multiagents and artificial intelligence) and dedicated software study, for an european project about simulation of business models for multimedia content digital distribution. Writing an internal presentation. Innovation department.
11/1998-3/1999	Application of own detection and reconstruction algorithms to the reconstruction of filiform objects. Laboratory for Computation and Visualization in Mathematics and Mechanics, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
11/1998-3/1999	Responsible for analytical geometry exercices courses. Chaire de géometrie. Département de mathématiques. EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
4/1997-5/1997	Development of a demonstration of the future system "Teaching over WWW", Signal Processing Laboratory of EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
8/1996-10/1996	Development of an intranet utility to manage personal absences, using CGI. Signal Processing Laboratory of EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
2/1996-10/1998	Web master at Signal Processing Laboratory of the EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
9/1992-3/1993	Diploma Thesis Work in Electrical Engineering in the Signal Processing Laboratory of the EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. The subject of this work was: "Statistical modeling of hierarchical subband images by vector quantization and arithmetic coding".

Training and courses

11/2002	"Consultoria acústica", Col·legi Oficial d'Enginyers de Telecomunicació de Catalunya, Barcelona. (12h)
10/2002	"Ràdio digital (DAB)", Col·legi Oficial d'Enginyers de Telecomunicació de Catalunya, Barcelona. (12h)
7/2002	"Infraestructures comunes de telecomunicació", Col·legi Oficial d'Enginyers de Telecomunicació de Catalunya, Barcelona. (12h)
3/2001-3/2002	"Programa d'especialització en xarxes i serveis de telecomunicació", Associació Catalana d'Enginyers de Telecomunicació, Barcelona. (136h)
9/2001	"El impulso de la televisión digital terrenal en España", Universitat Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Barcelona (15h)
4/2001	"Televisión interactiva", Recoletos Conferencias y Formación, Madrid. (16h)
2/2000	"Infraestructures comunes de telecomunicació", Associació Catalana d'Enginyers de Telecomunicació, Barcelona. (12h)
4/1996	"Traitement des signaux et images", EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
2/1996	"IRIX administration", EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
3/1995-3/1996	"Communication Networks", post-graduate course in the Computer Science Departement of the EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
7/1994	"EMBS-IEEE Biomedical Imaging", Ile de Berder, Brittany, France.
1/1994-12/1994	"Virtual Reality and Multimedia", post-graduate course in the Computer Science Departement of the EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
10/1985-7/1987	"Computer Programming Course", Europe Company Corporation, Barcelona.

Society membership

IEEE	No. 02627990
Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación	No. 9.013
Col·legi Oficial d'Enginyers de Telecomunicació de Catalunya	No. 9.013
Asociación de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación	No. 11.532

Computer skills

Computer platforms	Silicon Graphics, SUN, PC, Macintosh.
Operating systems	UNIX (IRIX, Linux: administration), MS Windows, MacOS.
Languages	C, C++, Java, HTML, PHP3, CGI, OpenGL, Inventor, Pascal.
Databases	mySQL, MS Access.
Word processing	LaTeX, LyX, MS Word.
Others	MS Excel, MS Powerpoint.

Language skills

Catalan	mother tongue.
French	very fluent, oral and written.
Spanish	very fluent, oral and written.
English	very fluent, oral and written.

Publications

Francesc Pinyol Margalef, Alejandro López and Gabriel Fernández,
Frame-accuracy Synchronisation for Mobile TV Interactivity,
IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting (BMSB), Bilbao, Spain, 13-15 May 2009
J. Deigmöller, G. Fernàndez, A. Kriechbaum, A. López, B. Mérialdo, H. Neuschmied, F. Margalef, R. Trichet, P. Wolf, R. Salgado et al.
Active Objects in Interactive Mobile TV,
in Proceedings of the 15th International Multimedia Modeling Conference on Advances in Multimedia Modeling. Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009, pp. 224–226
J. Deigmöller, G. Fernàndez, A. López, B. Mérialdo, H. Neuschmied, F. Pinyol, R. Trichet, P. Wolf, R. Salgado, F. Milagaia, S. Glaser, A. Duffy
Portivity: object based interactive mobile TV system
2008 NEM Summit Conference Proceedings, October 13-15, 2008, Saint Malo, France
pages 146-151, ISBN 978-3-00-025978-4
Prats, F.E.; Reguant, V.D.; de Pozuelo, R.M.; Margalef, F.P.; Ubiergo, G.F.;
Intelligent playout for the optimal IP distribution of H264 SVC/MDC services over broadband and broadcast platforms.
Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting, 2008 IEEE International Symposium on
March 31 2008-April 2 2008 Page(s):1 - 5, ISBN: 978-1-4244-1648-6
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/ISBMSB.2008.4536636
Reguant, V.D.; Prats, F.E.; de Pozuelo, R.M.; Margalef, F.P.; Ubiergo, G.F.;
Delivery of H264 SVC/MDC streams over wimax and DVB-T networks
Consumer Electronics, 2008. ISCE 2008. IEEE International Symposium on
14-16 April 2008 Page(s):1 - 4, ISBN: 978-1-4244-2422-1
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/ISCE.2008.4559440
V. Katritch, J. Bednar, P. Furrer, F. Pinol-i-Margalef, M. Kunt, A. Vologodskii, A. Stasiak, and J. Dubochet,
Determination of DNA persistence length by cryo-electron microscopy. Appendix: I. Persistence length of DNA molecules confined to the thin liquid layer. II. From stero-micrographs of DNA molecules to their reconstructed trajectories. Automatic procedure of filament recognition and its adaptation for the measurement of DNA persistence length.
Journal of Molecular Biology, 254, pp. 591-594, 1995.
Francesc Piñol i Margalef, Patrick Furrer, Murat Kunt, Jacques Dubochet
The Flying Cylinder: a New Algorithm for Filament Recognition in Noisy Stereo Images
Journal of Structural Biology, Vol. 116/1, pp. 25-29, January-February 1996.
Francesc Piñol i Margalef, Patrick Furrer, Jacques Dubochet
3D Reconstruction of DNA Molecules
Proceedings 15ème Colloque sur le Traitement des Signaux et Images GRETSI, Juan-les-Pins, France, p. 893, September 18-21, 1995.
C. de Solà, F. Piñol i Margalef,
Applying JPEG compression to a Geometric Transformation of Ultrasound images,
Proceedings of the 18th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMBS96), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 31 - November 3, 1996
C. de Solà Fàbregas, F. Piñol i Margalef,
Adaptive predictive coding of ultrasound images
Proc. of the 11th Int. Symposium in Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, p. 1004, Berlin, Germany, June 25-28, 1997.

Personal preferences

Photography, cinema, mountain bike, hi-fi audio, languages.

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